I'm not saying he had to break-dance or anything, but a little end-zone happy dance would have been appreciated.

In Britain it has been estimated that, at any point, approximately one in seven 16- and 17-year-olds are 'status zero', meaning that they are not in education, training or employment (Istance etal., 1994), and since 1988 most 'status zero' young people aged under 18 have not been eligible for social security payments.

A base, ignoble mind, / That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

...it could just be that I’m in a commemorative mood, but the endlessly useful South African idiom “jawellnofine” has been on my mind rather a lot this week. It’s a versatile Frankenstein term that, like a more finely calibrated “whatever,” can express everything from dispassionate approval to passive-aggressive indifference to reluctant acceptance — or any combination of these at once.