@footballcliches.bsky.social a sign I've gone too far through the looking glass, is that on reading this in the BBC News article about Mark Townsend's tragic death, I immediately Googled if it was a league or cup game, so as to judge the accuracy of the use of the word "tie"
(It was a league game)
07.10.2025 23:11 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
@footballcliches.bsky.social Do we think Keir Starmar is Cliches-aware enough to see the irony in him giving his "full confidence" to both Rayner and Mandelson, then sacking them both the next day?
11.09.2025 23:26 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
@footballcliches.bsky.social re June MHDโฆ few weeks ago I got cracked on the shin playing 6-a-side with my team. Have an (unfair) rep of โgoing down easilyโ due to being lightweight, so my limping was greeted with craws of โsheโs fine!!โโฆ imagine my delight when I got to send this to the group chat
06.07.2025 11:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Oh my Cook has matured into a strong silver fox #bbccricket
21.06.2025 22:13 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
@maxrushden.bsky.social error on pod from 29th May. Re qualifying for ECL - Chelsea came 6th in PL 23/24, not 8th. Ended up in ECL as Man United won FA Cup, so took Chelsea's Europa League spot.
30.05.2025 00:45 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
@footballcliches.bsky.social not good audio content for the pod, but this โfootballersโ names in thingsโ was enough to interrupt my run this morning
08.04.2025 11:04 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
I think @footballcliches.bsky.social would have something to say about Chelsea debutant Naomi Girma committing a foul, and the commentator declaring โwelcome to the WSLโ. An inverse for me - only appropriate if the new signing is the foulee, not the fouler.
02.03.2025 15:34 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Sent a WhatsApp message today using โpart and parcelโ in a very appropriate non-footballing context, disproving a recent claim on the @footballcliches.bsky.social pod (and absolutely not used consciously in order to do soโฆ)
11.02.2025 09:18 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
The offence I imagine I caused with innocuous remarks, that nobody but myself even remembers
11.02.2025 01:16 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
@footballcliches.bsky.social question: can you score a worldie โtoo earlyโ? Thought occurred to me during the Man United Women game last weekend. Terland scored a lovely volley in the 6th minโฆ instinctively struck me as too early in the game for a goal of that quality (especially as it ended 1-0)
05.02.2025 19:06 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Long coat drip from the pundits on the BBCโs coverage of Villa vs Chelsea is quite something else #BarclaysWSL
02.02.2025 16:31 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Or bowl twice
01.02.2025 12:43 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Not optimistic of this being the reckoning it should be, given how the players have treated Alex Hartley. The misplaced hubris, the incompetency, the poor mentality, the reluctance to accept hard truthsโฆ itโs all just so very... *English* #WomensAshes
25.01.2025 12:07 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
New target - bat twice in the test match #WomensAshes
25.01.2025 10:39 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
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January 2025 - Referee abuse, WBA, Mark Robins, Colchester Utd, Sportscene, Doncaster Rovers
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13.12.2024 10:50 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Caitlin Moranโs column in Yesterdayโs Times is about young men taking their own lived and why. And how men shld be encouraged to speak out, โto talk, to cry, to screamโ rather than to โman upโ
โDonโt man upโฆ.
Instead
โโฆtalk, cry, screamโ
This is so important & very poignant from @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social on men taking their ow lives
08.12.2024 13:48 โ ๐ 1089 ๐ 297 ๐ฌ 41 ๐ 33
Henrique Hilario
09.12.2024 00:24 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
People need to stop doubting Lewis Hamilton. There was one truly great champion out on that track today, and he was wearing number 44 #AbuDhabiGP
08.12.2024 15:21 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
This is an incredibly silly game of football #CFCW #BarclaysWSL
08.12.2024 14:45 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Absolutely buzzing for Wales, qualifying for a major tournament for the first time! Unashamedly will say I now hve two teams to support at the Euros this summer, the country of my upbringing, and of my birth ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
04.12.2024 00:00 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
#Lionesses
03.12.2024 21:52 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Now more than ever, solidarity, allyship, and zero tolerance to intolerance are necessities to protect these communities from the malevolent forces who can only see the world through a lens of hatred.
Love instead ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
03.12.2024 17:54 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Off to Bramall Lane for my second #Lionesses game in 4 days tonight ๐ฆ
Excited to watch a team I love play in the city I call home, a tolerant, progressive and diverse place to live.
However, there is reportedly a โprotestโ planned against trans women in sport, before the gameโฆ
03.12.2024 17:52 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
INDIRECT FREE KICK IN THE BOX
IT'S HAPPENING
TUNE IN TO CHELSEA VS VILLA NOW
01.12.2024 13:54 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
I thought it was alphabetical by surname until I saw Colwillโฆ
01.12.2024 13:03 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Makes me think if @footballcliches.bsky.social has ever adjudicated on the correct way to list a line up
01.12.2024 12:33 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
I absolutely cannot fathom the BBC Sportโs rationale behind how the Chelsea starting XI has been ordered. Not formation, not numerical, not alphabeticalโฆ what?? A crime against football
01.12.2024 12:32 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
I was disappointed in the lack of ambition though. I didn't see much "experimentation", only two subs was disappointing - as was Mead and Russo getting the full game despite offering little #Lionesses
01.12.2024 08:44 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Thoughts on the game last night... Earps has won back the No. 1 shirt, for now. The defensive performance was good, albeit against an understrength USA - and that felt an important reset #Lionesses
01.12.2024 08:44 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Itโs been several years since womenโs football transcended into the mainstream consciousness, and popularity - but it still gives me a little thrill to stop off at a service station on my way down to a #Lionesses game, and find itโs rammed full of women and girls wearing England shirts
30.11.2024 16:19 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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