What officially constitues a key pass?

[General]

Seen the term used a lot over the years but have no idea what it stands for, anyone wiser than I?

[ALG01]

not to exactly answer but a lot of these nonsensical words/phrases have crept in because of opta stats and the like.
Actually fantasy football also has made an impact on the language because, for instance a player can get an 'assist' for doing no more than booting the ball aimlessly and somebody more talented gets on the end of it and creates a goal from nothing. We used to say that if you played a killer pass or delivered a pin point cross and opened up the goal for a foward to tap/head in that you had 'made the goal' but that doesn't seem to feature now as a phrase. The assist is just a nonsense word.

A dribble now, is anybody running with the ball that may go a few yards with it... in my day a dribble was when you had the ball, took on an opponent and beat him for skill twisting this way and that, a la best, or charlie cook. The term now is meaningless.

A key pass, what does it mean? and why bother with another pointless new expression. It is either a good pass or a poor pass or a brilliant pass depending on when you play the ball, why you play the ball and whether the receiver is under pressure when he recieves it. Haynes was a master of the brilliant pass but were they key passes, who knows?

Sorry for the rant but I feel for the OP question.

[Moltobueno]

Key pass should be a pass that leads to an attack which ends with a shot. Basically an assist to a shot (doesn't matter if it's on target or not).

[rogerpbackinMidEastUS]

NFR:  But an annoying expression that has recently crept in over here is "Segwaying" particularly on the news.

"And now we segway over to Susan with the weather"

Perhaps it will disappear now that Segway is on the decline.

[bog]

For me any pass that Johnny Haynes made....

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[alfie]

A key pass is one that "opens a door"

[RaySmith]

.....unlocks a defence.

[Woolly Mammoth]

and a padlock

[Logicalman]

.. and a website

[LittleErn]

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NFR:  But an annoying expression that has recently crept in over here is "Segwaying" particularly on the news.

"And now we segway over to Susan with the weather"

Perhaps it will disappear now that Segway is on the decline. unquote.

I agree it is annoying - especially as segue means to move from one scene(et al.)to another without interruption. Just saying "and now we segue" is an interruption!

By the way, it is segue - Segway is/was an electronic transport device.








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[LittleErn]

For me any pass that Johnny Haynes made....

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+1

[rebel]

Seen the term used a lot over the years but have no idea what it stands for, anyone wiser than I?

Think of Fulham v Villa - Play Off Final (2018), think of Sess to Cairney, Cairney scores. That's a 'key pass'.

[filham]

For me any pass that Johnny Haynes made....

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Yes you could call Haynes passes key, or perfect, slide rule, well weighted, world class, the best, match winning, accurate, inch perfect, etc., etc.

[filham]

Key pass can mean all kinds of things.
In the closing minutes last night those passes of ours to the corner flag were key passes.

[rebel]

For me any pass that Johnny Haynes made....

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Yes you could call Haynes passes key, or perfect, slide rule, well weighted, world class, the best, match winning, accurate, inch perfect, etc., etc.

I actually took out a book from the local library, years ago, it had everything about his passing techniques etc. I'm sure he wrote it in 1959.

[LittleErn]

For me any pass that Johnny Haynes made....

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Yes you could call Haynes passes key, or perfect, slide rule, well weighted, world class, the best, match winning, accurate, inch perfect, etc., etc.

I actually took out a book from the local library, years ago, it had everything about his passing techniques etc. I'm sure he wrote it in 1959.

that would be worth a read. Anyone know its title?