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Hello everyone,

From a football documentary.

Phil Jones has already taken a few pages out of John Terry’s gaffe book in his short and promising career with injuries caused by clumsy tackles.

Both Terry and Jones can’t be bullied off the ball. But both can be blockheads.

According to the dictionary:

http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/bully-of...

verb bully off

(intransitive, adverb) to restart play after a stoppage with a bully-off

It seems to me that the defenition related to hockey doesn't apply in the football context above.

I would think the text implies it is very difficult to take the ball from them, but they are defenders/backs and it is their job to take the ball from the other team's attacking players, not vice versa.

Thank you.

Thank you.