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For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

Welcome to the back catalogue of Adam Hurrey"s Football Cliches podcast exploring the glorious and unique language of football: the words, the phrases, the mannerisms and, above all, the clichés.Find the new podcast feed by searching for "Football Cliches" wherever you usually listen, or by following this link: https://lnk.to/kdWOMyTA Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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32:09

San Marino vs Seychelles, seventh-tier ball plinths...

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2022/09/13

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker for the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda this week: the NFL embraces the "cold, wet night in Stoke", alarming reports of ball plinths in the seventh tier, a comprehensive preview of San Marino's no-love-lost showdown with Seychelles, and the Premier League table of club badges. Meanwhile, the panel gracefully accept Adam's climbdown over the "cometh the hour, cometh the man" furore and Charlie takes on the Turkish Super Lig

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57:19

Chelsea managers who somehow never happened & the...

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2022/09/08

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and Jack Pitt-Brooke for the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda this week: dusting off the "Sacked Chelsea Manager discourse" phrasebook, David Beckham's latest Qatar tourism promo, Martin Keown's decade-long fixation with botanical co-commentary and details of the podcast's forthcoming UK & Ireland tour. Meanwhile, the panel argue over the precise conditions for "cometh the hour, cometh the man" and ponder the predominant emphasis used in

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56:47

Footballers as verbs, the Brazilian Michael Flatley...

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2022/09/06

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker for the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda this week: players who deserve to have their names used as footballing verbs, Tony Pulis' apparently exclusive phrase of "leg beaters", some alarming US TV co-commentary from Lee Dixon and an unexpected debate about "unanswered goals". Meanwhile, the panel get stuck into a bumper edition of Keys & Gray Corner, as the boys out in Doha welcome none other than Sean Dyche to their

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64:41

Rainham Steel, statuesque goalkeepers and fraudulent...

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2022/09/01

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and Charlie Eccleshare are joined for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks by Rory Smith, chief soccer correspondent of the New York Times and author of the new book Expected Goals: The story of how data conquered football and changed the game forever. Among Rory's selections for his footballing fascinations and irritations are Premier League advertising hoardings for quaint local businesses; goalkeepers rooted to the spot as shots fly past them into the net; the

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52:30

Gloss-adding goals, away fans sucking the ball in...

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2022/08/30

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker for the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda this week: Whether or now away ends can "suck the ball into the net", a very curious usage of "rolling back the years", identifying the most "Crisis? What crisis?" team in the Premier League and an analysis of the footballing phrase "Johnny on the spot". Meanwhile, the panel decide which goal in a thrashing is the one that "adds gloss" and reflect on a big weekend for the complex

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58:59

Every Premier League Club’s Transfer DNA

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2022/08/25

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and Jack Pitt-Brooke for a stock-take of all 20 Premier League clubs' transfer market identities: which precise sort of player encapsulates their transfer window habits in the modern era? And who is the most Club X player never to have signed for Club X? This journey through the transfer window and beyond includes: the England Under-21s of the early 2000s who somehow never played for Leeds; an entire lineup of overwhelmingly Bournemouth

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53:33

Wazzed corners, four-and-a-half-pointers and EFL...

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2022/08/23

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker for the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda this week: the most expensive footballer of all time not to have a Wikipedia photo, a Portuguese twist on the old "six-pointer", corners being "wazzed" in, penalties being "lashed in", and some very curious half-and-half scarves at the King Power Stadium. Meanwhile, the panel try and make sense of the unfolding controversy over the abbreviation of EFL team-names and establish the

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52:47

The Welcome to the Premier League XI

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2022/08/18

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and James Maw for a journey deep into the ego of the Premier League. After 30 years of its self-declaration as the greatest - and hardest - league in the world, with its own physical, psychological and moral standards, the panel compile a lineup of players who have been tested the most by the Premier League's unique demands. From a symbolic, save-shy goalkeeper to tormented World Cup winners, forlorn figures, divers, spitters, showboaters

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69:35

Caught in three minds, EFL saxophones and 28 seconds...

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2022/08/16

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and Nick Miller for the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda this week: Conor Coady breaks the "football club" world record for his Everton unveiling, the harmless but inappropriate theme tune for ITV's EFL highlights, some textbook Peter Drury at Brentford and why goalkeepers' saves are like sausages. Meanwhile, the panel examine whether a player can be caught in more than two minds and enjoy Richard Keys commandeering the Premier League's

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54:49

Ball-boy dark arts, gaffers and We Are The Champions,...

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2022/08/11

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and Charlie Eccleshare are joined by football writer, broadcaster and sociologist David Goldblatt for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks. Among David's selections for his footballing fascinations and irritations are the various emotional states of the average ball boy, the enduring presence of the word "gaffer" in British football, the decline of the football radio phone-in and his intolerance of Queen’s “We Are The Champions”. Learn more about your ad choices

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52:41

Classified Results 0 Auto-Pilot Hysteria 1, quickfire...

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2022/08/09

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker gather for the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda this week: Every layer of the backlash to the news that the BBC Radio 5 Live have scrapped the classified results after 70 years, the difference between "cat and mouse" and a "game of chess" and when to use either in relation to a football game and David Seaman at the National Cat Awards. Meanwhile, the panel wade through the first Keys & Gray Corner of 2022-23, and it's a busy one. Learn

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52:53

The Football Clichés Quiz V

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2022/08/04

The Football Clichés Quiz returns ahead of the new season. Reigning champion James Maw aims to become the first to retain the title as he takes on challenger Michael Cox across five rounds of niche footballing knowledge, including YouTube football compilations, Guess the football men from their introductory videos on Cameo, the potential Charlies of Bournemouth and, once again, Premier League shirt sponsors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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54:58

Textbook Lionessing, scandalous kit evoking and...

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2022/08/02

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker form the Adjudication Panel once again. On the agenda this week: the mandatory elements of the Lionesses' Euro 2022 glory, some scandalous kitspeak from Fulham, new twists on the "cold night in Stoke" concept and the most footballery description of a wedding of all time. Meanwhile, the panel discuss the difference between a "pass" and a "ball", the threshold for becoming an "£Xm man" and listen in on the most atmospheric school

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47:22

Breaths of fresh air, managers vs head coaches and...

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2022/07/26

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker are reunited for the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda this week: the footballing implications of the phrase "whisper it (quietly) but...", the Big Premier League "Manager or Head Coach" Quiz for 2022-23, the slightly fictional-sounding ex-Serie A journeyman now playing in the tenth tier of English football and the definitive "breath of fresh air" team in Premier League history Meanwhile, Charlie reports from Seoul on how former Leeds

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51:55

Heathrow Ultras, the Butcher of Amsterdam & Every...

For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive ·

2022/07/19

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, David Walker and Nick Miller gather for the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda this week: the sad demise of the football/politics analogy, the sensational story arc of William "Worst Miss of All Time" Akio, Lisandro Martinez - the last remaining footballing "butcher", this week's Transfer That Just Sounds So Right and the most successful footballing full name of all time. Meanwhile, the panel nail down the mandatory types of Premier League pre-season friendly, from

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56:33

The Pure Team GB Olympic XI

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2022/07/14

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, James Maw and debutant Ajay Rose mark 10 years since Team GB cobbled together a men's football team for London 2012, one of the most curious one-offs in modern football history, by asking: what would that team look like today? Mark Noble or no Mark Noble? What other Olympic sport should someone called "James Ward-Prowse" be competing in? And which manager would lead this XI in 2022? Meanwhile, the Adjudication Panel revive the age-old debate of whether an own goal can

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58:20

Taliswomen, the worst miss of all time and the summer...

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2022/07/12

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, David Walker and James Maw form the latest Adjudication Panel. On the agenda: Can Denmark's Pernille Harder be Denmark's "talis...woman"? Breaking down every element of the greatest miss in football history, the definitive list of footballing "merchants", Aidy Boothroyd's new job in India, some very economical co-commentary from Mark Bright, and what it means to "meet" a cross. Plus, there's a special report from Adam's visit to the World Cup of.....foosball. Learn more

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53:41

Mickey Mouse on a Bosman, QPR's Nick Kyrgios and...

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2022/07/05

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, David Walker and Nick Miller convene for the Adjudication Panel once again. On the agenda: Champions League football coming to the BBC, the Barry Davies World Cup 2002 commentary we all thought was lost forever, Mickey Mouse leaving Disney on a free, and players who have two "unfinished business" transfers in a row. Meanwhile, the panel decide the likely football careers of the men's last 16 at Wimbledon and enjoy David Seaman hosting a live fishing quiz on

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76:45

Max Rushden on Sunday League aggro, ex-footballer...

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2022/06/30

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and Charlie Eccleshare are joined by Guardian Football Weekly host and former Soccer AM ace Max Rushden for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks. Among Max's selections for his footballing fascinations and irritations are unnecessarily violent Sunday League opponents, the nostalgic glory of the target man, banal football questions posed by official social media accounts and 5-a-side team-mates who refuse to play the ball backwards. Learn more about your ad choices

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63:40

Long-lost commentary, transfer-coup thresholds & the...

For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive ·

2022/06/28

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Nick Miller and James Maw are on this week's Adjudication Panel. On the agenda: another blow for those who still call it "the Premiership", whether Gabriel Jesus to Arsenal counts as a "transfer coup", Marseille and Real Betis going head-to-head in...Chesterfield and the podcast's most disturbing montage yet. Meanwhile, the panel recall some iconic but long-lost commentary lines and take a deep dive into the complex history of "a [rainy/cold/windy] [Tuesday/Wednesday]

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