Ball-boy dark arts, gaffers and We Are The Champions, with David Goldblatt
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and Charlie Eccleshare are joined by football writer, broadcaster and sociologist David Goldblatt for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks.
Among David's selections for his footballing fascinations and irritations are the various emotional states of the average ball boy, the enduring presence of the word "gaffer" in British football, the decline of the football radio phone-in and his intolerance of Queen’s “We Are The Champions”.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.0 | I'm sorry, you can sit there and look and play with all your silly machines as much as you like. |
| 0:10.0 | Is Gas going to have a crack? |
| 0:12.0 | He is, you know. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh, he's there! |
| 0:14.0 | Brilliant! |
| 0:16.0 | Gee! He's round the goalkeeper! |
| 0:21.1 | He's done it! |
| 0:22.7 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:24.7 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd, and Kung Fu kicked. |
| 0:30.8 | A supporter who was eyewit without a shadow of an out giving him lip. |
| 0:35.3 | Oh, I say! |
| 0:37.3 | It's amazing! He does it tame, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:38.4 | It does it tame and tame and tame again. |
| 0:41.3 | Frank of the music, charge a glass. |
| 0:45.3 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:49.7 | A brief history of joyous pitch invasions, the various emotional states of the average ballboy, |
| 0:56.8 | the immortal universal concept of the gaffer, half-assed mascots and the Disneyification of modern football, |
| 1:04.2 | when was the golden era of the football phoning, |
| 1:06.5 | and the most passionate case ever made against the ongoing, worldwide post-trophy lift reliance on Queens, we are the champions. |
| 1:15.6 | Brought to your ears by The Athletic, this is football clichés. |
| 1:22.8 | Hello everyone and welcome to episode 181 of football clichés. |
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