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Grassroots Football

FromFor Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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Jan 30, 2020

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The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare & James McNicholas take a journey into football's grass roots...
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Jan 30, 2020

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Titles in the series (100)

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey explores the glorious and unique language of football: the words, the phrases, the mannerisms and, above all, the clichés. Featuring 'Mesut Haaland Dicks' interviews with the likes of Jamie Carragher, Nedum Onuoha, Tom Rosenthal and many more too.

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Grassroots Football: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare & James McNicholas take a journey into football's grass roots... by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
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The Art Of Football Commentary: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare & David Walker discuss the things they love about football commentary and pundits, the characters that make them laugh and the moments that make us cringe.. Adam also sits down with football commentator Clive Tyldesley.. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
58 min listen
The Football Cliches Awards 2019/20: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Dan Barnes & Nick Miller bring you the Football Cliches Awards 2019/20. Who was the most beleaguered manager? What was the season’s Game’s Gone moment? Which was the greatest Lampardian Transition of them all? And which of this season’s footballing phrases do we never want to hear again? by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
42 min listen
The Most Annoying Things About Football: Whilst we all miss football The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and Sam Lee take us on a journey through all the things that wind us up about the game. From under-hit crosses to 9-man five-a-side games and those annoying people banging on about their Fantasy football selections.. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
53 min listen
#WelcomeBackFootball: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and Jack Pitt-Brooke get reacquainted with watching live football with a little help from Sean Bean. It's a feeling that can't be explained but they are going to spend the pod explaining it and they do not apologise for it. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
39 min listen
The Anatomy of a Footballer: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Michael Cox and Dave Walker unpick the weird and wonderful language used to describe footballer's bodies and what they do with them on the pitch.. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
52 min listen
The Transfer Window: Caroline Barker hosts The Athletic's Charlie Eccleshare, Adam Leventhal and Mr Football Cliches himself - Adam Hurrey - to pick apart the absurd language we all love to use during the transfer window. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
28 min listen
The Art of the Goal Celebration: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, James McNicholas and Dave Walker get in on the act as they pick out the silly, silly world of the goal celebration. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
57 min listen
Goooals!: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Michael Cox & Jack Lang talk goals galore; the language of goalscoring, what makes a wonder goal and things they've noticed in football this week.. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
37 min listen
Football On Film: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by writers Jack Pitt-Brooke and Dan Barnes to explore why football films are generally SO AWFUL! Expect bad accents, an even weaker plot and of course, a bicycle kick to finish it all off... by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
45 min listen
Goal Of The Season: Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and Jack Pitt-Brooke share their thoughts on The Athletic's goal of the season shortlist and discuss the essential ingredients for the perfect goal. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
52 min listen
Football Adverts: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare & James McNicholas pick apart memorable football-themed TV adverts. How did Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos and co get away with their 1998 airport antics? How did Gareth Southgate get embroiled in an Independent Television Commission investigation? Was the 1994 Jungle World Cup final marred by a doping scandal? by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
38 min listen
The Language of Football Kits: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey & Dave Walker are joined by Daniel Storey examine the language and style of football clobber. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
57 min listen
The A-Z of football clichés - Part One: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey & Charlie Eccleshare are joined by Tom Williams author of 'Do You Speak Football?' to discuss the strange vocabulary only used by those fluent in the game's endless cliches. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
60 min listen
Premier League Years 98/99: Join The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and Charlie Eccleshare as they sit down and watch the 1998/99 season episode of that glorious series Premier League Years... by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
109 min listen
The Language Of Football Management: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Jack Pitt-Brooke & David Walker start a war of words about the language of football management. The unique speak that swirls around the technical area of the beleaguered journeyman manager.. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
51 min listen
Football & computer games: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Dan Barnes & Carl Anka discuss the evolution of football themed computer games and how the have become part of football culture from the sublime FIFA series to the ridiculous Chris Kamara's Street Soccer by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
52 min listen
Goalkeepers: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and Dave Walker discuss the various idiosyncrasies and eccentricities of goalkeepers. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
52 min listen
The Football Clichés Quiz: Adam Hurrey hosts a special quiz with contestants George Caulkin & Oliver Kay to lead us out of the darkness of footballing lockdown.. Famous commentary moments played backwards, Premier League shirt sponsors, players who somehow never signed for Turkish clubs, and can you name a single Premier League assistant referee? by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
44 min listen
Football Punditry featuring 'Box Office' Roy Keane: Adam "Football Cliches" Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and Jack Pitt-Brooke to discuss the weird science of football punditry. Where does the real Roy Keane end and the box office Roy Keane begin? As Neil Warnock returns are there any managers left who haven’t managed Middlesbrough? Does Coleman really rhyme with “goal man”, Martin Tyler? And how far back in time would you need to go to cut it as a professional footballer? by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
42 min listen
How We Follow Football: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Harriet Drudge and Charlie Eccleshare wade through the various ways we consume football; from build-up to reaction, from montages to forensic analysis, from phone-ins to goals round-ups.. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
49 min listen
The Sounds Of Football: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Harriet Drudge and Dave Walker discuss the sounds of football we all know and love: the thwacks, smacks, clunks and crunches, howls of derision, ironic cheers and the shrill of a referee’s whistle.. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
50 min listen
European Football, Thursday Nights, Channel 5: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, James Horncastle and James Maw discuss the particulars of watching European football. Who were last crack east European outfit? What is the threshold for a gruelling midweek European trip? Who are the most Europa League club of all? And just who are the those children employed to wave a giant Champions League ball on the pitch before kick-off? by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
53 min listen
The Little Joys Of Football: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and Sam Lee take stock of the little things that we love about football, small sensations we took for granted all these years and right now miss so much... by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
59 min listen
The Business End™ of the season: As the season draws to a close, Adam Hurrey, David Walker and Nick Miller debate the important questions. When does the business end of the season start? What is the threshold for making a Great Escape from relegation? And what is the definitive Too Good For the Championship, Not Good Enough for the Premier League ELEVEN? by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
50 min listen
Footballs - why we love to kick them: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Ecclehare and Sam Lee discuss the most important piece of equipment in the game - the ball. Where does the design of match balls go next? Was the Mitre Mouldmaster the worst football of all time? Are we about to witness the death of knuckleball? And, quite simply, what are microflaps? by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
41 min listen
Money, Money, Money: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and Nick Miller discuss football's weird relationship with money by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
50 min listen
How to Lose at 5-a-side by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
45 min listen
Playing with a Pro, Brits Abroad & The Future Language of Football: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and Seb Stafford-Bloor gather for episode 42 of the Football Cliches podcast and begin with tales of what it's like to actually play football with a proper professional player. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
53 min listen
The rise & fall of Own Goals and Gaffs: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Jack Pitt-Brooke and Nick Miller dust off the VHS player to reminisce about the glory days of the own goals and gaffs video, before the internet came along and ruined everything forever. Who's the true master of the genre - Danny Baker or Nick Hancock? What are the criteria for the ultimate own goal or missed sitter? What happened to poor old Peter Devine? All this plus a journey through the murky depths of the football DVD world featuring a cast of former players and celebrities all getting in on the act ranging from Vinnie Jones, Ray Winstone, Robbie Savage, Paddy McGuinness and even Zoe Ball. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
56 min listen

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