flat-track bully

noun

1. a sportsperson who dominates inferior opposition, but who cannot beat top-level opponents

Example Sentences

They hoped his stellar record in the Bundesliga with Borussia Dortmund might disguise a flat-track bully who would take time to adapt to the Premier League and could even disrupt City's studied cerebral style with his more explosive, physical approach and brute force.

From BBC

“Southgate has again allowed himself to be bullied by the ultimate flat-track bully Kane, who must be odds on to get five or six tonight himself. What chance now has Tammy Abraham of ever starting for England? Maybe in some important World Cup knockout game when Kane gets injured, it will come back to bite Southgate.”

From The Guardian

He is also whatever the opposite of a flat-track bully is.

From BBC

This has been perhaps the defining note of Lewandowski’s career to date: the sense that however many goals he accumulates against the Colognes and Augsburgs of this world, however many Bundesliga titles he stacks up, there has always remained a certain note of unfulfilment, a whiff of the flat-track bully that he has never quite been able to cast aside.

From The Guardian

The Belgian may be accused of being a flat-track bully but he tends to be the scourge of lower-league opponents and he again displayed his habit of striking against Chelsea’s inferiors.

From The Guardian