Defining "unfinished business" and a deep dive into non-verbal football communication
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, David Walker and Nick Miller explore some more glorious footballing niches. This time, Football Clichés finds itself in a podcast awards Group of Death, the "political football analogy" silly season is officially in full swing and it's that time of year again: the release of the Premier League's yellow ball.
Meanwhile, the panel explore just what constitutes a manager having "unfinished business" in the Premier League, unorthodox ways of following your team in action and the underappreciated hand gestures of the modern game.
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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. |
| 0:10.0 | Is gas going to have a crack? He is, you know. Oh, he's there! Brilliant! He's round the goalkeeper, he's done it! |
| 0:22.3 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:24.2 | 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. |
| 0:34.9 | Oh, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:37.9 | It does it tame and tame and tame again. |
| 0:40.9 | Frank of the music, charge a glass. |
| 0:44.9 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:49.0 | The football podcast Group of Death, the Premier League's cartoon Winter Ball, |
| 0:55.6 | Westminster Football Analogy Silly Season in full swing, highly unorthodox ways of consuming football matches, the deepest |
| 1:01.0 | of deep dives into the Premier League concept of unfinished business, and its bum slaps and dive jettches |
| 1:06.6 | all round as we investigate the art of footballing nonverbal communication. |
| 1:11.7 | Brought to your ears by The Athletic, this is Football Clices. |
| 1:20.5 | Hello everyone and welcome to episode 109 of the Football Clices podcast. |
| 1:25.1 | I'm Adam Horry and with me is David Walker. |
| 1:28.1 | Good week for the Football Clices podcast. |
| 1:29.9 | We found ourselves in the Group of Death |
| 1:31.6 | at the Football Supporters Association Awards for 2021. |
| 1:35.3 | Indeed we have. |
| 1:36.6 | Care to run through who the other contenders are? |
| 1:39.2 | The Football Rumble, Guardian Football Weekly, |
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