Silly question, but where do you keep the context of a sentence?
Let me start again. Last weekend, Anderlecht won at Cercle Brugge, a narrow victory that came in the final moments. After the match, Vitor Bruno said: “Play badly and take the three points every match? Where do I sign for that”. The line was analysed and criticised. Then, at the press conference before Dinamo Zagreb, he said: “Don’t take that sentence out of context, I also said that we have already produced good performances this season. I also want to develop attractive football, and we have already managed it.”
So the sentence had a home, and someone made it come out. I opened my notebook, tab “expressions”, and drew the sentence with its neighbours around it: the good performances, the attractive football. A sentence alone makes a controversy. A sentence with its family makes a press conference.
Second silly question: sign where? I’m told it’s a figure of speech, that nobody actually hands the manager a biro. Fine, but what does that mean? In football, people sign a lot. Contracts, shirts, and now badly played matches.
I also noted that Dinamo Zagreb play, according to him, an intense 4-3-3, that they are the best team in Croatia, and that Anderlecht lost their first league-phase match against Lyon. Dinamo, for their part, shared the spoils against Hapoel Beer Sheva. “Shared the spoils”, another expression. My notebook has run out of tabs.
A sentence out of context. In my day, you only said one sentence, and it had no context.
He finally said: “To be lucky, you have to work a lot. What we are building at Anderlecht will take time.” I copied it out in full, with everything around it. Anyway, I still have a lot to learn.
It’s true, we checked: Walfoot.
