Cup final songs, pre-match TV poetry and Robbie Keane's dreams, with Séamas O'Reilly
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and Nick Miller are joined by bestselling author and columnist Séamas O'Reilly for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks.
Among Séamas' selections for his footballing loves and hates are the demise of the FA Cup final song, the underrated but anatomically awkward Irish legend Robbie Keane, the filler content of the average footballer's autobiography, pre-match TV poetry and the depraved depths of the chat boxes on illegal livestreams.
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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. |
| 0:09.8 | Is Gas going to have a crack? |
| 0:11.5 | He is, you know. |
| 0:12.4 | Oh, he's there! |
| 0:15.0 | Brilliant! |
| 0:18.5 | He's round the goalkeeper! |
| 0:20.5 | He's done it! Absolutely, he's done it! |
| 0:22.2 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:24.1 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd, and Kung Fu kicked a supporter who was |
| 0:31.8 | without a shadow of an out giving him lip. |
| 0:34.8 | Oh, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:37.8 | It does it tame, and tame, and tame again. |
| 0:40.8 | Frank of the music, charger glass. |
| 0:44.8 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:49.3 | Drilling down into the semi-noticed demise of the F.A. Cup final song, |
| 0:53.3 | the angular awkward appeal of |
| 0:55.0 | multi-club Irish dreamer Robbie Keene, the selective habits of football TV cameramen, the mandatory |
| 1:00.2 | elements of 98% of footballing autobiographies, why pre-match poems are regrettably the absolute |
| 1:06.6 | pits, and the search for a glimmer of innocence in the depraved forums that are the chat boxes |
| 1:12.1 | of illegal live streams brought to your ears by the athletic this is football cliches |
| 1:17.6 | hello everyone and welcome to episode 147 of football clichés. I'm Adam Horry. |
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