Pencil "plumbago" (Latin for "lead ore"). Because the pencil core is still referred to as "lead", or a "lead", many people have the misconception that the graphite in the pencil is lead, and the black core of pencils is still referred to as "lead", even though it never contained the element lead. The words for pencil in German ("bleistift"), Irish ("peann luaidhe"), Arabic (قلم رصاص "qalam raṣāṣ"), and some other languages literally mean "lead pen". The value of graphite would soon be realised to be enormous, mainly because it could be used to line the moulds for cannonballs; the mines were
2–0 lead is the worst lead fact the worst possible lead. The cliché was popularized by Czech football coach and television commentator Josef Csaplár in the Czech football community. His use of the term suggested that a 2–0 half-time lead could only end in a defeat and the cliché is known in the Czech Republic as "Csaplár's trap" (Czech: "Csaplárova past"). In Serbia, the cliché is known for being used by manager and former player Milan Živadinović. The cliché was also used by Australian former player and TV broadcaster Johnny Warren. Television pundit and former English footballer Gary Lineker raised the cliché when commenting on a