Classy touches and second-half capitulations, with Clive Martin
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and David Walker are joined by writer Clive Martin for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks.
Martin's loves, hates, fascinations and irritations of football include: Premier League players visiting kids in hospital, teams capitulating after half-time, the failing national institution that is Arsenal Football Club and the curious career trajectory of Andre Villas-Boas.
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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. |
| 0:09.4 | Is Gas going to have a crack? He is, you know. Oh, he's there! |
| 0:14.5 | Brilliant! |
| 0:17.7 | He's round the goalkeeper! He's done it! |
| 0:21.7 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:23.7 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd, and Kung Fu kicked a supporter who was eyewit without a shadow of an out giving him lip. |
| 0:34.3 | Oh, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:37.4 | It does it tame, and tame, it's amazing. It does it tame and tame and tame again. |
| 0:40.3 | Frank up the music, charge a glass. |
| 0:44.3 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:48.2 | Football's most timeless hashtag classy touch of all. |
| 0:51.6 | The art of second half capitulations. |
| 0:55.5 | Why Arsenal are just like the NHS, the relentless class of 92 content machine, the specific things that bookend the Monday |
| 1:01.4 | to Friday Premier League news cycle, and the parallel universe that is the other Andre |
| 1:06.6 | Villas Boas. |
| 1:08.4 | Brought to your ears by The Athletic. This is Football Clices. |
| 1:20.2 | Hello everyone and welcome to episode 97 of the Football Clices podcast. |
| 1:24.2 | I'm Adam Hurry and my right-hand man today is David Walker. Now, David, |
| 1:28.7 | I'm not saying that some footballing interviews are inherently quite predictable before they even |
| 1:33.6 | happen, but I, but Steve Bruce, I'm told, is on 998 games as a manager. And that's, |
| 1:41.6 | that, that related interview, it isn't just so vivid in my head. I feel like I can |
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