Boring on-pitch jobs, late fitness tests and artificial atmospheres, with Nick Hancock
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and Charlie Eccleshare are joined by broadcaster and 90s football video legend Nick Hancock for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks. Among Nick's selections for his footballing fascinations and irritations are the mundane details of timewasting, our evolving expectations of footballers' intellect, the curious mind games behind the late fitness test, manufactured matchday atmosphere, the vagaries of the football disciplinary process and lazy football merchandising.
Meanwhile, the Adjudication Panel discuss whether football shorts really need pockets, Dayot Upamecano's voice coaching from an opera singer and a new level in weird goalnet sounds.
Produced by Mike Stavrou.
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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 | Yes, you know. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh, I say! |
| 0:14.0 | Brilliant! |
| 0:19.0 | He's round the goalkeeper! |
| 0:21.2 | He's done it! |
| 0:22.9 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:24.8 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd, and Kung Fu kicked. |
| 0:30.9 | A supporter who was eyewit without a shadow of an out giving him lip. |
| 0:35.4 | Oh, I say! |
| 0:37.3 | It's amazing! It does it tame, and tame, getting him lip. Oh, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:38.5 | It does it tame and tame and tame again. |
| 0:41.4 | Crank up the music. |
| 0:43.5 | Charge a glass. |
| 0:45.4 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:49.8 | The cultural importance of the 1990s football blooper video, |
| 0:57.4 | the mundane side to the modern art of time wasting, |
| 1:01.0 | the evolution of our expectations of footballers intellects, |
| 1:03.6 | a deep dive into late fitness tests, |
| 1:07.4 | whether we should really care about manufactured matchday atmospheres, |
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