Chess co-commentary, shop windows and the Purest Essence of Ally McCoist
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker assemble for another Adjudication Panel. On the agenda this time: some blissfully unaware Serie A commentators, the standards of modern chess punditry, and whether the verb "roofed" should be welcomed into the goalscoring vernacular.
Meanwhile, the panel thrash out the precise definition of a footballing "shop window" and there's a 49.3-second audio masterpiece that is The Purest Essence of Ally McCoist.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | I'm sorry, you can sit there and look and play with all your silly machines as much as you like. |
| 0:09.5 | Is gas going to have a crack? He is, you know. |
| 0:12.0 | Oh, he's there! |
| 0:14.7 | Brilliant! |
| 0:17.9 | He's round the goalkeeper! He's done it! |
| 0:21.8 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:23.8 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd, and Kung Fu kicked a supporter who was |
| 0:31.5 | without a shadow of and out giving him lip. |
| 0:34.4 | Oh, I say! |
| 0:36.4 | It's amazing! |
| 0:37.5 | It does it tame, and tame, and tame again. |
| 0:40.4 | Crank up the music, charge a glass. |
| 0:44.4 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:48.5 | When exactly did the game start coming thick and fast? |
| 0:52.0 | The curse of the side netting strikes in Seria. |
| 0:55.0 | Alan McAnally's oven-cook analogies. |
| 0:57.8 | A brief and awkward journey into chess co-commentary. |
| 1:01.0 | Is it finally time to allow the verb roofed into the goal-scoring vernacular? |
| 1:05.5 | What exactly constitutes a footballing shop window? |
| 1:07.9 | And the 49.3 second audio masterpiece, that is, the purest essence |
| 1:13.2 | of Ali McCoyst. |
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