After yesterday's abomination of GESCHWINDIGKEITSBEGRENZUNG, here's a great German word that's neat, simple and just doesn't have an equivalent in English. I'm talking about FEHLPASS, which is used in football to describe what happens when one player tries -- but fails -- to pass a ball to a team-mate. A "failed pass" if you like.

You hear it constantly on German telly from football commentators and pundits, although given the strength of German football, it's a term that's mainly directed at sloppy foreign players.

In fact, you have to like German if only for the fact that football is simply FUSSBALL. None of this weird "futbol" nonsense as in Spanish. A "foot"is a FUSS. A "ball" is a BALL. Football's a simple game and so is its translation into German.