Csaplár's trap

[Zaschrona]

Liverpool's loss against Bournemouth was a classic example of a football situation we always call as 'Csaplár's trap' here in the Czech Republic. It is a hugely popular thing here - both fans and journalists call the game you lose/tie from 2-0 lead commonly like that. So I have decided to create a wiki-page for that situation to try to make it more known for all the football fans all around the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Csaplár's_trap

I wonder as a Czech native speaker - is there another English word you use for that type of situation?

And - how often do you use another Czech well-known football thing in your language - Panenka penalty kick?

Thanks for answers.

 

[Walken]

dafuq?

 

[ilikecheese]

Dafudge?

 

[chrismpw]

The closest I can think is:
"Everton that"

 

[The Cowboy]

Liverpool's loss against Bournemouth was a classic example of a football situation we always call as 'Csaplár's trap' here in the Czech Republic. It is a hugely popular thing here - both fans and journalists call the game you lose/tie from 2-0 lead commonly like that. So I have decided to create a wiki-page for that situation to try to make it more known for all the football fans all around the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Csaplár's_trap

I wonder as a Czech native speaker - is there another English word you use for that type of situation?

And - how often do you use another Czech well-known football thing in your language - Panenka penalty kick?

Thanks for answers.

Closest I can think of is 'grasping defeat from the jaws of victory'.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Liverpool's loss against Bournemouth was a classic example of a football situation we always call as 'Csaplár's trap' here in the Czech Republic. It is a hugely popular thing here - both fans and journalists call the game you lose/tie from 2-0 lead commonly like that. So I have decided to create a wiki-page for that situation to try to make it more known for all the football fans all around the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Csaplár's_trap

I wonder as a Czech native speaker - is there another English word you use for that type of situation?

And - how often do you use another Czech well-known football thing in your language - Panenka penalty kick?

Thanks for answers.

I'm not sure quite how it came up, but I learned in a recent Czech class that panenka in English is actually doll, so there's a nice symmetry there as in sporting parlance here we use the word dolly to mean something very easy. It's used a lot in cricket for instance, as an easy catch.

 

[Prevenger17]

Csaplár's trap sounds like a chess move

 

[The Cowboy]

Csaplár's trap sounds like a chess move

It sounds like the computer game they play on Big.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

Funny that you should ask as I believe that the correct word is one of the longest in the English language ...

Crystanbulalloveragenlaar

 

[canuckblue]

Closest I can think of is 'grasping defeat from the jaws of victory'.

Or:
Taking your foot off the gas pedal.
Lulled into a false sense of security.

 

[The Cowboy]

Or:
Taking your foot off the gas pedal.
Lulled into a false sense of security.

Ah yes, I guess they fit more of the 'trap' element.

Maybe 'resting on your laurels'?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

More to the point though, I was reading the other day about the story of Svaty Mikulas (seeing as you had his angel/devil day thing recently), and that there was this family, and the dad was really poor, so he sold his daughters to a verejny dum. Anyway, it wasn't clear quite how Mikulas found this out, but along he came and threw some cash through the window to help him out.

And all that led to this each year

We learn some cool stuff in our Czech class. Also part of the legend said that because Mikulas came from Turkey, the 'devil' was actually an African guy along with him, and because Czech's hadn't seen an African before...

To be fair though, it's a better story than Santa Claus.

 

[The Cowboy]

More to the point though, I was reading the other day about the story of Svaty Mikulas (seeing as you had his angel/devil day thing recently), and that there was this family, and the dad was really poor, so he sold his daughters to a verejny dum. Anyway, it wasn't clear quite how Mikulas found this out, but along he came and threw some cash through the window to help him out.

And all that led to this each year

We learn some cool stuff in our Czech class. Also part of the legend said that because Mikulas came from Turkey, the 'devil' was actually an African guy along with him, and because Czech's hadn't seen an African before...

To be fair though, it's a better story than Santa Claus.

Is that woman blacking up?

 

[canuckblue]

Ah yes, I guess they fit more of the 'trap' element.

Maybe 'resting on your laurels'?

That works. As does, "Counting your chickens before they've hatched."

 

[ToffeeDan]

There's a cool article in the Guardian Knowledge about unusual football terms around the world. I'll post the link when I get home later.