Why be depressed about the state of football?

The language of football has integrated itself into the English lexicon more broadly.

The long arm of these expressions reaches far and wide, too, from business and politics to the everyday, and, of course, football.

I like that all around the world so many clubs have English names, like Newell 's Old Boys in Argentina , Spain ’s Athletic Bilbao, or the Grasshopper of Zurich .