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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I wrote “gateskipper†as a joke for “gate(s)keeperâ€, and decided to check it out. Sure enough:
Gate skipper was on hand to clear Page’s goalbound effort off the line as the visitors’ goal began to lead a charmed life.
Curtis Robinson stands by to replace the Gate skipper. Dan Young could miss out with concussion. The Gulls have taken six from a possible 18 .
Gate skipper Dave Pennett knows Scarborough could be dangerous and has sounded a warning to his own players.
It works for me as an eggcorn: the goalie not only keeps the gate but skippers the team (or at least the nearby activity of the team) from the gate.
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I don’t see any clear connection to the other notion of a skipper as one who skips. I have known goalies, though, whose porous fingers might warrant the usage.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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These look to me like the sort of jaunty, intentional wordplay that crops up a lot in writing about sports. And while there are lots of types of “gatekeepers” out there, every single instance I could find of this referred to soccer—which makes me think that it’s a cute term used knowingly by a small group of people writing on that one sport. I’d be more convinced of its eggcornicity if it showed up in a wider array of contexts.
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Most likely right. As the instructions for posting suggest, I submit.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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