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New: Football Clichés: 5.88 EFL seconds, Andy Townsend in song intros & the "sick of the sight of him" threshold Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: satisfying goal commentaries on Match of the Day, Arne Slot learns a very mundane English spor...

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🔊 Lovely MOTD goal vocalisations

🔊 Spurs, Yankuba Minteh & the “sick of the sight of him” threshold

🔊 Andy Townsend co-comms in song intros

🔊 Raphinha’s 20-hour road trip

🔊 The life & times of Richard Key(s)

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Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social & @jamestmaw.bsky.social on Monday...

Let's have your niche footballing correspondence – on the international break and beyond – for the Adjudication Panel.

Cheers!

New: Football Clichés: Curtain-raising issues, Wycombe's new goal verb & things you cannot be "amid” Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: a cultural mini-review of the Community Shield, some glorious crowd-noise from the Championshi...

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🔊 A cultural mini-review of the traditional curtain-raiser

🔊 Absolute bottom-tier use of the word "amid"

🔊 Dean Saunders plays the hits

🔊 Wycombe’s new goalscoring verb

🔊 Richard Keys’s little brick

🔊 MORE

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Thanks, Simon. Glad you're enjoying it. So much material out there it was hard to decide which stuff to include.

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social &
@davidcameronwalker.bsky.social on Monday...

Let's have your niche footballing questions and observations — from the Nations League and very much beyond — for the frankly bang-in-form Adjudication Panel.

Cheers!

New: Football Clichés: The League of Farmers, metaphorical mountains & UFO-spotting Premier League managers Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the secret behind Watford's managerial recruitment strategy, Luis Enrique on "farmers leagues"...

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🔊 A fine finale to a fortnight of football-themed papal conclave discourse

🔊 Premier League managers’ names in UFO sightings

🔊 Estimated distances with Richard Keys

🔊 Bawdy banter in the TNT commentary gantry

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New: Football Clichés: Doing a job on Chris Wilder & goalkeepers just booting it upfield, with Bryan's Gunn The pod welcomes the content-creating genius that is Bryan's Gunn - aka Will Powell - for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks, as he chooses his six personal fascinations and irritations of f...

Really great to have @bryansgunn.bsky.social on the Cliches pod

Chris Wilder, keepers booting the ball, and unnecessary sexing up of FA Cup draws among his MHD choices

Check out his work with @trusselluk.bsky.social too 🙏

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The England Pod: How confident should the Lionesses be ahead of the Euros? Robyn Cowen is joined by David Walker and the Telegraph's Kathryn Batte to take stock of where Sarina Wiegman's England find themselves with just three months to go before they attempt to win back-...

Great to have Robyn Cowen on board to host the England Pod's coverage of the Lionesses 🙏

We were joined by the excellent @kathrynbatte.bsky.social to look ahead to the Belgium games and generally get a feel for where England are with three months till the Euros

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Fair play, I did have that thought about Henderson after we recorded. Fair chance he gets in.

Picking Thomas Tuchel's first England squad The England Pod · Episode

The England Pod is back, on its own feed, ready for the Thomas Tuchel era to begin in earnest

We've had a look at the many dilemmas facing Tuchel as he picks his first squad, there's more than you might think

Get it on all pod platforms & YT 🙏

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The Pure Discourse XI Football Cliches · Episode

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🔊 Obsolete keepers, a stand-out right-back pick, overadventurous centre-backs, England’s famous "perennial left-sided problem", culture-war midfielders & strikers who don't actually score

THE PURE DISCOURSE XI

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Champions-elect, relegated Rishi Sunak & Premier League managers with Athletic subscriptions Football Cliches · Episode

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The Adjudication Panel

🔊 Are Liverpool "champions-elect"?

🔊 A property-related analogy too far for Dion Dublin

🔊 Fact-checking Jonathan Pearce vs Rishi Sunak

🔊 Managers most likely to be Athletic subscribers

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How to celebrate an own goal & ball-boy etiquette: The listeners' loves & hates Football Cliches · Episode

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𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒕 𝑯𝒂𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒔: The Listeners

Your fascinations & irritations: Football-related profile pictures, the extreme shorthand of mid-game team-mate praise, how to celebrate an own goal and MUCH MORE

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Chuckling stadiums, Things-in-Chief and, finally, some actual whispering of it quietly Football Cliches · Episode

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The Adjudication Panel

🔊 Should football stadiums chuckle?

🔊 Football’s acceptable “things-in-chief”

🔊 El Chiringuito goes deep

🔊 Man City midfielders X Northumbria psych-folk

🔊 Eccleshare’s voice in things

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Fair play. That's a real deep cut.

The Football Cliches Quiz XVII: The Commentators Football Cliches · Episode

Great fun had by all on the Football Cliches Quiz XVII

We were joined by three of MOTD's finest in @jamesfielden.bsky.social, @chriswisey.bsky.social & Mark Scott

Right up there with the toughest quizzes we've faced. A real test.

Listen and play along for yourself ⬇️

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The "17th chess piece", the death of the onion bag & coded messages to the board Football Cliches · Episode

Really enjoyed getting into the ludicrous ‘coded message to the board’ concept on the latest @footballcliches.bsky.social pod - with Adam and @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social
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Football Cliches Podcast · Adam Hurrey & Goalhanger · Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker explore the glorious and unique language of football: the words, the phrases, the mannerisms and, above all, the c...

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The Adjudication Panel

🔊 Referees vs THE LIMELIGHT

🔊 A listener’s entertaining score draw with a hernia operation

🔊 Stop taking Ruben Amorim literally!

🔊 RIP the glorious Eurosport brand

🔊 MUCH MORE

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"Football, bloody football", UK garage Postecoglou & the exact weight of a Premier League point Football Cliches · Episode

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🔊 THAT semi-unforgettable Fergie quote

🔊 Redknapp's curious refereeing vote of confidence

🔊 Ange Postecoglou's accidental UK garage

🔊 Some pathological footballspeak in everyday life

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@nickmiller79.bsky.social

Made me think about how common goal lines are in 5-a-side, you see them a lot less than you think

Latest five-a-side net woes

Not sure my attempted fix is going to withstand the first shot lashed into the side netting from an angle that you definitely shouldn't be shooting from

Cometh the quinquennium, cometh the pod Football Cliches · Episode

What better way to celebrate the Cliches pod's fifth birthday than to get @cdeccleshare.bsky.social to give us five seconds on each PL club in his generic football pundit voice?

Seriously, it's Bafta-worthy stuff. You must listen.

(We somehow missed Everton, of all the clubs 😩)

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Has the Premier League hit peak “What a job [Manager X] is doing up/down there?” Football Cliches · Episode

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The Adjudication Panel

🔊 Is this the most “What a job [Manager X] is doing” Premier League season?

🔊 Advertising 🆚 Generic Football Fans

🔊 Australia's Richard Keys

🔊 MUCH MORE!

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What an observation that is, by the way. I tend to export in mono so that'll be why.

Portrait-aspect football & England managers in the stands: The listeners' loves & hates (feat. Chloe Petts) Football Cliches · Episode

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𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒕 𝑯𝒂𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒔: The Listeners

Your fascinations & irritations: England managers "watching on" from the stands, the portraitification of football, late subs winning Man of the Match and MUCH MORE

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& Chloe Petts!

Here's @cdeccleshare.bsky.social joining us from Melbourne on the latest Football Cliches pod, and what a shirt that is by the way

Very fun episode including an amazing entry in the Sam Allardici canon and the sheer delight of Parlour & Brazil on WW2

Listen - pod.fo/e/29d77f

First 5-a-side of the year. Pleased to report the goal situation was satisfactory (apart from the line)

My Wikipedia app has been doing a weird thing where it leaves the header image on from the most recent page I've visited...

The Football Cliches Quiz XVI: Career We Go - The Rematch Football Cliches · Episode

A very enjoyable quiz with the best quizzers in the game @careerwegopod.bsky.social

The formidable brain of @cdeccleshare.bsky.social on full display

Merry Christmas all! 🎄

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Genuinely has an effect on how the game is played, somehow feels harder to score, weirdly