Pure Cliches: the 'on toast' threshold & the great Three Lions mystery uncovered

Football Clichés has moved! Here’s where to find us…: Football Clichés has moved! Here’s where to find us… by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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The end of an era: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and - in his final appearance - David Walker for the closing Adjudication Panel of the season. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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The Football Clichés Quiz VIII: The Football Clichés Quiz returns for its eighth edition, and the stakes have been raised for defending champion Michael Cox as his challenger this time is none other than Adam Hurrey himself, with past-winner Charlie Eccleshare stepping into the quizmaster's chair. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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Crosses left on the doorstep, egg all over his shirt & the Phantom Drury Effect: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker for the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda: What type of goal is the most "still had work to do" goal possible, the No 1 religious reference to deploy during a live TV commentary, the greatest recorded example of something other than a goal being "cheered like a goal", ambient household noise and the "Phantom Drury Effect", and the lowest-profile footballer who could end up on a celebrity reality TV show. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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Suitcase moods, goalkeepers on fire & VAR eavesdropping: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker for a midweek edition of the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda: some tense Serie A small talk with an Italian, the Russian football equivalent of being “on the beach”, the concept of being "the first name on the teamsheet", whether a goalkeeper can ever be "on fire" and some football-inspired language from the wider world. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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The trajectory of a ping, going down with a whimper & the "knows the club" coefficient: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker for the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda: stress-testing a “knows the club” coefficient model, the threshold for a club “going down with a whimper”, an exhaustive list of football’s “promised lands” and whether Michael Olise's latest assist was the epitome of a "ping". by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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Base layers, the "WELL IN!" threshold & the language of champions-elect: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker welcome the listeners' May entries for Mesut Haaland Dicks, with the Clichés faithful nominating their niche footballing fascinations and irritations. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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Old-fashioned No 9s, seeing your name in lights and the spice-rack league table: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker for the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda: The managerial disciplinary tightrope, when old-fashioned No 9s first became “old-fashioned”, the subtle difference between "score" and "scoreline", the language of Erling Haaland not scoring a goal, an entirely understandable misconception of “at sixes and sevens” and tenuous football curses. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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Title-race non-twists, ChatGPT does MHD & pinpointing the start of the 'modern era' by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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The greatest moment in football podcasting history: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker for the latest edition of the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda: Kasper Schmeichel's Monday Night Football punditry debut, Roy Keane spotted at the snooker, Rishi Sunak’s Northern Premier League Division One East play-off final rallying cry, podcaster Sam Allardyce returning to top-flight management and a 27-year wait for the final piece of a football-culture jigsaw is finally, sensationally ended. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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'He's got his goal', the 'family club' criteria & ChatGPT's Streets Won't Forget XI: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker for a midweek edition of the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda: More surname-based goal celebrations, football punditry's equivalent of a solar eclipse, Erling Haaland and the most “he’s got his goal” goal ever scored, destiny brings together two Clichés listeners on a dating app and ChatGPT attempts to compile a "Streets Won't Forget" XI. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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Sting in the stands, quickfire topical chanting & the velocity of a wounded duck: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker for the latest edition of the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda: a handball-appeal hat-trick at Ipswich, the most “left on the halfway line to defend when your team has a corner” player ever, a brand new option for shot-velocity metaphors, the quickest turnaround for a topical chant in Premier League history and the BBC take on Sky in a "Sting spotted in the stands at Newcastle" pun-off. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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The Overmythologised XI: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and Michael Cox to compile a lineup of players whose myths, auras and internet legacies have eclipsed their mortal footballing existences. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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Beginner-level knee-slides, ChatGPKeys & the Match of the Day seagull: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker on the Adjudication Panel for the 250th episode of the pod. The agenda includes: the new world record for keepy-uppies, Rolls Royces at the snooker, horses finding pockets of space at the Grand National, the least textbook knee-slide celebration in Premier League history, a Match of the Day viewer uncovers some bizarre audio that nobody had ever noticed. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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Pure Cliches: What makes a stadium a cauldron? & mundane FIFA animations: With 249 episodes in our archive we thought we'd raid our back catalogue to bring you some examples of the purest essence of the Football Cliches podcast. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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5-a-side shouters, relentless Continental whistling... and what's the best name for a second division?: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker entertain the listeners' April entries for Mesut Haaland Dicks, with the Clichés faithful nominating their niche footballing fascinations and irritations. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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Title race in their hands, the world at their feet & the streets forgetting Teemu Pukki: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by David Walker and Nick Miller for the Adjudication Panel. The agenda includes: Whose hands the Premier League title race is actually in now, the threshold for a young starlet having “the world at their feet”, a listener's Sunday League instincts kick in at an office meeting and a quickfire Keys & Gray Corner. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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Match vs Game and the most 5-a-side Premier League goal ever: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker for the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda: a potential new career option for Frank Lampard, "the most 5-a-side goal the Premier League has ever seen", stadiums that have their own famous "roar", and Keys & Gray tell (again) the story of the birth of the Premier League. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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No Context Peter Drury, a spate of sackings & leaving everything out there: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by David Walker and Nick Miller for the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda: the need for a collective noun for manager sackings, some deluxe-level Peter Drury commentary, the mid-weekend shorthand language of title races and the most ‘on in the background during a pub lunch’ fixture of all. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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International ringers, Messi vs stewards and footballers' home museums, with Max Fosh: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and Nick Miller are joined by comedian and YouTube star Max Fosh for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks. Among Max's selections are the precise thought process behind a switch of international footballing allegiance, the late-1990s Premier League obsession with Vicks VapoRub, the very modern power struggle between trained stewards and elite players when someone invades the pitch for a selfie and players with a museum to themselves in their own house. Meanwhile, the Adjudication Panel bemoan the collapse of all standards when it comes to publishing the simple information that is group tables. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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Smashing records, The [Player X] Show & Xerxes' big-game bottlers: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker for the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda: the Window Cleaning World Cup, whether Harry Kane really has "smashed" the England goalscoring record, a very footbally reason why the second Persian invasion of Greece in 479 BC ended in defeat, the English football kit-manufacturer pyramid and the definitive hierarchy of silly football Wikipedia editing. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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Pure Cliches: Unfinished Business and Kevin Keegan at the Meat Management Industry Awards: This week we head back to episode 109 for an extraordinarily detailed look at what constitutes 'unfinished business', and from episode 94 we rejoice in hearing all about Kevin Keegan's appearance at the 2021 Meat Management Industry Awards. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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The purest Soccer AM lineup, the Messi of Maths and the tidiest Premier League player: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by David Walker and Charlie Eccleshare for the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda: Marking the demise of Soccer AM by selecting its ultimate guest lineup, "The Messi of Maths" and his equivalent of the cold, wet Tuesday night in Stoke, some very alternative goal commentary from the archives and an unexpected footballing name pops up in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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Fictional football shirts & the most internationally eligible player of all time: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by David Walker and Nick Miller for the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda: The most punworthy FA Cup quarter-final in living memory, Nike vs Warner Bros in a Ted Lasso kit saga, the player eligible to play for the most different countries, tracking down the goalkeeper cited in an unfortunate dictionary definition and, once again, checking in with good old Richard Keys. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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Pure Cliches: Basement boys & the Europa League XI: With well over 200 episodes in our archive we thought we'd raid our back catalogue to bring you some examples of the purest essence of the Football Cliches podcast, this week we head back to episode 61 to examine the true meaning of the phrase 'Basement Boys', and from episode 95 we bring you the midfield selections & deliberations of the Pure Europa League XI by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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Childish stadium nicknames, classy Sunday League touches & the "perfect" goal: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, James Maw and Jack Lang field March's listener entries for Mesut Haaland Dicks, where the Clichés faithful nominate their niche footballing fascinations and irritations. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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Cracked MOTD badges, natty free kicks and the reigning Voice of Football: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by David Walker and Charlie Eccleshare for the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda: surveying the wreckage of the weekend's Match of the Day saga, an unexpected Indian summer for one English manager's career, a Premier League referee texting into a music radio station and yet another example of a thing being dubbed the Rolls-Royce of Item X. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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Pure Cliches: Dreamland, solo efforts, and "no disrespect to egg": With well over 200 episodes in our archive we thought we'd raid our back catalogue to bring you some examples of the purest essence of the Football Cliches podcast by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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Dion Dublin's Blackpool boasts & the most Premier League club yet to play in the Premier League: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by David Walker and Charlie Eccleshare for the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda: some professional musicians wade into the Sheffield Wednesday/ABBA saga, a thorough fact-check of Dion Dublin’s goalscoring boasts on Homes under the Hammer, the parameters for a "slaloming" dribble, the most versatile generic football fan outburst of all and arguably the best parody-metal song about the 1994 World Cup final you have ever heard. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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Martin Tyler vs Peter Drury: The Bake-Off: The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by David Walker and Nick Miller for the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda: Some more joyous local radio co-commentary, the least expected product in the world to be described as a "Rolls-Royce", Martin Tyler and Peter Drury on proverbial cake-topping scorelines and an unprecedented way of saying a game is still goalless. by For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

49 min listen

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