Football jargon should be shown a red card

‘There’s far worse football jargon than Harry Kane’s assertion that England need to “play better with the ball in the attacking third”,’ says Alan Thomas. Photograph: Abbie Parr/AP

Re Adrian Chiles’ article (Bonkers football jargon puts people off the game. It needs an idiot filter, and I’m volunteering, 1 December), two more terms currently in constant use by football managers need to be explained to those new to watching the game. They are “getting minutes” and “very fine margins”.

Getting minutes is what players who have missed a couple of games are doing when they are brought on 10 minutes before the end of a match that has already been won or lost. Players not fitting into this category are those who have played two games in the last fortnight and thus need to be “rested”.