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Football Cliches

Adam Hurrey & Goalhanger

Sports

Frequency: 1 episode/4d. Total Eps: 185

Deconstructing the gloriously unique language of football – the words, the phrases and the tiny things you didn't think you cared about – with Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare & David Walker. Visit nordvpn.com/cliches to get four extra months on a two-year plan with NordVPN

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🇨🇦 Canada - soccer
02/08/2025
#37
🇬🇧 Great Britain - soccer
02/08/2025
#18
🇬🇧 Great Britain - sports
02/08/2025
#46
🇺🇸 USA - soccer
02/08/2025
#38
🇨🇦 Canada - soccer
01/08/2025
#34
🇬🇧 Great Britain - soccer
01/08/2025
#18
🇬🇧 Great Britain - sports
01/08/2025
#47
🇺🇸 USA - soccer
01/08/2025
#46
🇨🇦 Canada - soccer
31/07/2025
#32
🇬🇧 Great Britain - soccer
31/07/2025
#22

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#156
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The Adjudication Panel: The minutes left vs blood pressure ratio

mercredi 28 août 2024 • Duration 39:46

Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker on the Adjudication Panel. The agenda includes: Michael Dawson's entry into the "so-called" pantheon, the latest bit of Romanian football-related small talk on Corrie, the threshold for "we owe them one", and the identity of the default Premier League website player silhouette REVEALED. Meanwhile, the panel marvel at an astonishing bit of agricultural metaphoring thanks to Ipswich Town's return to the Premier League The Football Cliches Live show is back! Adam, Charlie & Dave are heading to London and Manchester on the 23rd & 24th September with a brand new show. Tickets available at: https://myticket.co.uk/artists/football-cliches-live Adam's new book, Extra Time Beckons, Penalties Loom: How to Use (and Abuse) The Language of Football, is available to pre-order: https://geni.us/ExtraTimeBeckons Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Adjudication Panel: Sparking a stroll, rickets vs howlers, and the Champions League anthem revamp

mardi 27 août 2024 • Duration 55:11

Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker on the Adjudication Panel. The agenda includes: a welcome variation on a 'bit of both' from Gary Neville, the benefits of being as precise as possible when denoting how far out a goal is scored from, David Raya's sextet of goal-adjacent water bottles, and the weirdest 'for my sins' on a football phone-in ever. Meanwhile, the panel deliver their verdict on the subtle Champions League theme revamp The Football Cliches Live show is back! Adam, Charlie & Dave are heading to London and Manchester on the 23rd & 24th September with a brand new show. Tickets available at: https://myticket.co.uk/artists/football-cliches-live Adam's new book, Extra Time Beckons, Penalties Loom: How to Use (and Abuse) The Language of Football, is available to pre-order: https://geni.us/ExtraTimeBeckons Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Football Clichés Quiz XIV: Cliches vs The Sweeper

jeudi 25 juillet 2024 • Duration 01:29:35

The Football Clichés Quiz returns and the latest opposition for the Clichés team are the world football experts from The Sweeper podcast, whose focus is the furthest-flung corners of the footballing globe. The questions include semi-forgotten all-Welsh strikeforces, title-winning island clubs, Swansea defenders with unexpected royal lineage, countries who don’t have their own league, made-up Dutch internationals, an obscure league where referees show blue cards and some tense FIFA world rankings action. You can listen to The Sweeper here: https://linktr.ee/SweeperPod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Adjudication Panel: "A real plomb", big-match dust-settling & the worst football Q&A night ever

lundi 22 juillet 2024 • Duration 35:54

Adam Hurrey is joined by David Walker on the Adjudication Panel. The agenda includes: Alan Pardew reacting to the big US politics developments, fully media-trained MLS 14-year-olds, how much attention we should be paying to Olympic football, Nike's last ever Premier League match ball and the lineup for the worst Q&A evening in football history. Meanwhile, the panel decide how long it takes for "the dust to settle" after a big game and weigh up some technicalities over behind-closed-doors friendlies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Squad arrival videos, MOTM substitutes & watching football on holiday: The listeners' loves & hates

mercredi 17 juillet 2024 • Duration 56:39

Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker entertain this month's listener entries for Mesut Haaland Dicks, as the Clichés faithful nominate their niche footballing fascinations and irritations. Among the selections are working out how embracing opposition players became friends, the mundane rise of the "squad arrivals" video, watching football in a bar on holiday, late substitutes getting the Player of the Match award, the decline of footballers' autographs and the recent phenomenon of players geeing up the crowd after winning a goal kick. Meanwhile, the Adjudication Panel assess the latest Euro 2024 reference in EastEnders and whether you can "slice" a penalty wide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Adjudication Panel: Unhinged pre-match montages & Heartbreak vs Heartache (2024 edition)

lundi 15 juillet 2024 • Duration 43:13

Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker for the final Euro 2024 Adjudication Panel. The agenda includes: whether England's tournament failure was a "heartbreak" or "heartache", the Peak Montage moment of the pre-match coverage, the psychological pay-off of putting yourself through an opposition trophy lift, Chelsea's genre-revitalising marketing spiel for their new kit, a job advert for a VAR operator at Stockley Park and a quindecuple signing in League Two. Meanwhile, the panel strive for the technical definition of a player “popping it round the corner” to a teammate and decide the threshold for a "big money" transfer in 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Adjudication Panel: From Talksport to NATO - a cultural review of England 2 Netherlands 1

jeudi 11 juillet 2024 • Duration 47:17

Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare, David Walker and Nick Miller for the latest Euro 2024 Adjudication Panel. The agenda includes: a cultural review of England 2 Netherlands 1 (from Talksport to NATO via spoon-benders, chess grandmasters and The Killers), the true fan anthem of the Euros summer, a questionable chant for an international match and where Ollie Watkins now sits on the England clamour ranking. Meanwhile, the panel assess whether a Golden Boot winner scoring less than six goals can really be taken seriously and the big pre-season question: can an outswinging corner be described as "vicious"? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Adjudication Panel: Euro 2024's future Premier League forgettables & the Jordan Pickford penalty-heroics threshold

lundi 8 juillet 2024 • Duration 40:04

Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker for the latest Euro 2024 Adjudication Panel. The agenda includes: an unexpected footballer's name pops up in the General Election polls, a radio commentator synchronising effortlessly with the crowd noise, a potential new twist in "penalties are a lottery" discourse, a cultural review of England's penalty shootout against Switzerland, whether Spain's last-minute win over Germany counts as a "dispatching" and the relative merits of displaying the clock in extra time as 90:00-120:00 (ITV) or 00:00-30:00 (BBC). Meanwhile, the panel decide what sort of game best suits the "never in doubt [wink emoji]" sentiment and assess a list of mid-range Euro 2024 performers who seem destined for a forgettable Premier League future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Adjudication Panel: Misstiano Penaldo, "The Misquoted One” & arm-wrestling with Martin Keown

jeudi 4 juillet 2024 • Duration 51:02

Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker for the latest Euro 2024 Adjudication Panel. The agenda includes: the Wimbledon tennis doing Wimbledon tennis things, a perfectly wrong football analogy on election day, the BBC's Cristiano Ronaldo penalty caption saga, how teams "make friends" at major tournaments, new Brighton manager Fabian Hurzeler gets the Mourinho treatment on day one, the most "high street estate agents" footballer name, Meanwhile, the panel decide the specific scenario that best suits the observation of "good feet" and enjoy Every News At Ten Report of the Football Match You Watched Just Before News At Ten, Ever Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Adjudication Panel: The England clamour table, bending your run & dancing on the streets of City X

lundi 1 juillet 2024 • Duration 40:32

Adam Hurrey is joined by David Walker and Nick Miller for the latest Euro 2024 Adjudication Panel. The agenda includes: which player is at the front of the England clamour queue now, Jude Bellingham's self-referential goal celebration, the joy of Ally McCoist reacting to slow-motion replays, which Euros nations' capital-city streets are most likely to be "danced on", the transferrable football skill of "bending your run" in daily life and some concerning news about Mexican waves. Meanwhile, the panel ponder the acceptability of the tournament-exit verb "grouped" and whether anything can be "vintage Lamine Yamal". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices