Maybe more likely that he picked it up as a kid. Harkes grew up in a town that was heavily populated by immigrants from Scotland, including both of Harkes' parents.
Either way, I've never heard anyone here referring to a turnover as being anything other than one team giving the ball away. OK, there's an apple turnover, but even John Motson would struggle to shoehorn that into a commentary. Maybe Stuart Hall.
That is right I used to say it as a kid. But evidently every once and a while i revert back to a kid I even use terms like "GO wild when a player does something good"
You know if a player plays for your club even for one game you can call him one of your clubs former players. He played for our club for only one game as a 19 year old, and we can call him a former Brooklyn Italian.
I never heard it called a turnover either. When the question was asked on the coaching part I did not even answer it untill someone else called it a takeover.
Quoting myself to follow-up: on last night's Sky Sports News, Mike Wedderburn said "two to nothing" both to give the result of Game 2 of the World Series, and also to describe the Giants' lead in games. So the Giants won two-to-nothing; and Liverpool won one-nil. This feels right to me. I'd ask anyone who has been able to catch any BBC Radio sports reports during the World Series to take note of how they say it on there.
I hear "zip" as a synonym for "zero" all the time, but I don't think it means exactly the same thing. It has a little bit of a sneering connotation that "zero" doesn't. "Zilch" has even more of a sneering connotation.
Nil is derived from Latin, nihil, which means nothing. Nihilism is a political derivative. Tennis uses "love" universally to mean zero points. there is no parallel derivative for "love." hey, that's catchy, isn't it? Not. To call someone a poser for using Brit English football/soccer terms is a bit of an exaggeration and over generalization (not spelled with an "s"). If the Jim Rome's of the US-centric sportscasting world want to make fun of the sport and belittle it as less than worthy, let them. Personally, I think Jim Rome is an asshole and anyone who agrees with his point of view ain't gonna make or break the success of soccer in this country.