Childish stadium nicknames, classy Sunday League touches & the "perfect" goal
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, James Maw and Jack Lang field March's listener entries for Mesut Haaland Dicks, where the Clichés faithful nominate their niche footballing fascinations and irritations.
Among the selections are childish (and borderline pathetic) nicknames fans give for local rivals' home grounds, the precise rhythm and intonation of a perfect full-time whistle, the catharsis of complimenting opposition players at Sunday League, teams being guilty of trying to score the perfect goal, goalkeepers who rush out with the ball from a corner only to find nobody to distribute it to and the eternal and unexplained flaw of Wikipedia football career summaries
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm sorry, you can sit there and look and play with all your silly machines as much as you like. |
| 0:10.4 | Is Gas going to have a crack? |
| 0:12.2 | He is, you know. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh, he's there. |
| 0:15.6 | Brilliant. |
| 0:18.8 | 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. |
| 0:35.4 | Oh, I say! |
| 0:37.3 | It's amazing! It does it tame, and tame, getting him lip! Oh, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:38.4 | It does it tame and tame and tame again. |
| 0:41.4 | Frank up the music, charge a glass. |
| 0:45.3 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:49.5 | Spotting visiting fans for a European tie just mooching around your home city. |
| 0:54.1 | Childish, borderline |
| 0:55.3 | pathetic nicknames fans give to their local rivals home ground, the precise rhythm and |
| 0:59.9 | intonation of a perfect full-time whistle, teams being guilty of trying to score the perfect |
| 1:04.3 | goal, goalkeepers who rush out with the ball from a corner only to find nobody to distribute |
| 1:08.6 | it to, and the eternal and unexplained |
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