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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Playing for your dad's team & mercifully short injury time: The listeners' loves & hates
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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 the universal authority of the "come short" hand gesture, managers who sign their own sons, Jeff Stelling's trademark goal t…
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5.88 EFL seconds, Andy Townsend in song intros & the "sick of the sight of him" threshold
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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 sporting word, the “sick of the sight of him” threshold, surprise Andy Townsend co-commentary in a song intro, commentators taking 5.88 seconds to realise a …
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The Jose Mourinho box office & a one-man war on factually incorrect football anecdotes
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Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: Dave's subliminal, accidental Andy Gray impression, a massively overdone Champions League scene-setting montage from Amazon Prime Video, Jose Mourinho’s last remaining elite quality is brought into question, inadvertent footballers’ names …
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Mowbray vs Brotherton, goalkeepers worth 12 points & Keith Andrews in the building
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Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the Match of the Day intro scandal is concluded peacefully, football commentators' names in 14th-century bequeathals, the puzzling punditry quantification of goalkeepers' influence, Scott Parker goes a bit too deep about Burnley's low block, music…
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Serbian statements, Ange's unfinished business & Cape Verde: the World Cup Blackpool
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Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: some niche observations from Serbia 0 England 5, welcoming Cape Verde's imminent World Cup qualification with open arms, the unfinishedness of Ange Postecoglou's business, football commentators’ names in Suffolk castles’ family fun days an…
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The MOTD intro scandal, Taxman FC & the most "cat amongst the pigeons" goal ever
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Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by David Walker and James Maw. On the agenda: an unprecedented twist on the "knowledgeable crowd", a listener spots something in the Match of the Day intro, Michael Owen's semi-ironic new era, some exquisite football pedantry in the case of the FA vs Lucas Paqueta, a never-before-considered research p…
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The Football Cliches Quiz XXI: Libero
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In another superb trivia clash, the 21st installment of the Football Clichés Quiz sees Adam, Charlie and Dave take on Jonathan Wilson, Jack Pitt-Brooke and John Brewin from the Libero podcast. The questions include: World Cup winners with the names of prime ministers, Premier League beanpoles, domestic cup-final losers, top-flight match balls, vari…
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Slot's embarrassment of riches, hyperliteral stadium noises & Zidane vs Dyche
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Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by David Walker and Nick Miller. On the agenda: Troy Deeney and Joel Ward mangle their punditry clichés, a highly appropriate sound is heard after Brighton score their winner against Man City, the New York Times' crossword shows football no respect, Jack Grealish takes the "great to se him enjoying hi…
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Panenka-triggered goalkeepers & empty-net warm-up anxieties: The listeners' loves & hates
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Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare, David Walker and Nick Miller 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 the players' disbelieving reactions to team-mates' wondergoals, goalkeepers who react furiously to Panenkas aga…
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Dyche goes dating, Dean Ashton's defensive doughnut & textbook piledrivers
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Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the Stockley Park canteen saga rumbles on, inexplicable TV cameos from Sean Dyche, the closest we’ve come to locating the end of Graham Potter’s tether, footballing events that are too big to be “sliding-doors moments”, an incredible deployment of…
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Champion flatulence, football punditry sat navs & Sean Dyche X Big Sam
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Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: Jon Champions lowers the commentary tone in the Champions League qualifiers, Sky Sports' on-screen butchering of the embryonic Premier League table, a classic football geography error in Sherlock & Co, a sat-nav voiced by a football pundit…
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Vertical highlights, Farage's footballspeak & Stockley Park's canteen crisis
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Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: Match of the Day's non-evolution, the opening-weekend Premier League verdicts on who to fear for/who'll be fine, the concept of “knocking on the door" of the opposition, a low-key early contender for "game’s gone" moment of the season, a finely-po…
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8.55 seconds in Wrexham, Celeste's Sky Sports flame is out & niche 2025-26 predictions
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Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the nichest world record in football is shattered once again, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink's ex-footballer/Strictly contestant spiel, the extinguishing of Celeste’s five-year Sky Sports flame, why Dominic Calvert-Lewin to Leeds just feels so ri…
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Curtain-raising issues, Wycombe's new goal verb & things you cannot be "amid”
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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 Championship, the decline of the word "amid" continues, Dean Saunders reboots his campaign against football jargon, Sunderland's transfer strategy goes back to basi…
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Conor Coady's football club, alphabetical top flights & the world's most generic team name
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Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by David Walker and Nick Miller. On the agenda: Conor Coady introduces himself as a Wrexham player in customary style, the awkwardness of double-header friendlies, the alphabetical distribution of team names in the top European leagues, some astonishing pedantry on Jimmy Greaves' Wikipedia pag…
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Eastenders' Euro 2025 joy, #AccidentalCantona & "the most 2011 transfer of all time”
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Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by David Walker and Nick Miller. On the agenda: more Cliches references in wrestling commentary, Adam suffers a textbook "freak footballer injury" in real life, a cultural review of UK soap operas referencing England’s Euro 2025 glory, the glorious names of the vanquished non-League clubs in the FA Cu…
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The Football Cliches Quiz XX: The View From The Lane
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The twentieth installment of the Football Clichés Quiz sees Adam, Charlie and Dave take on James Maw, Jack Pitt-Brooke and Dan Kilpatrick from the Athletic's Tottenham podcast The View From The Lane The questions include: Premier League sextuple goalsmen, 32-year-old footballers, incomplete XIs, the moderately well trodden path from Tottenham to Lo…
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