Expected goals and the unexpected sounds of empty stadiums
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and Charlie Eccleshare are joined by the Mirror's chief football writer John Cross for the latest edition of 'Mesut Haaland Dicks'.
John's picks for his loves and hates of modern football include eavesdropping on the mundane chats of substitutes, the eternal magic™ of the FA Cup, glorious retro football TV shows and a deep dive into why commentators keep using the word "footrace".
Meanwhile, the Adjudication Panel also decide which young England starlet's career should be doomed to failure by selecting him in a speculative 2030 World Cup XI and select the most perfect few seconds of that Sky Sports stand-off between Jamie Redknapp and Roy Keane
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.0 | I'm sorry you can sit there and look and play with all your silly machines as much as you like |
| 0:08.0 | Is Gas going to have a crack? He is you know |
| 0:12.0 | Oh, he's there |
| 0:14.0 | Brilliant |
| 0:16.0 | He's round the goalkeeper, He's done it! Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:22.6 | 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. |
| 0:33.6 | Oh I say, it's amazing! |
| 0:36.6 | It does it tame and tame and tame again. |
| 0:40.0 | Crank up the music. |
| 0:42.1 | Charge a glass. |
| 0:44.0 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:48.3 | Futile predictions for England's 2030 World Cup team, the FAC Cup romantic starter kit, |
| 0:53.9 | retro TV shows, why do commentators keep |
| 0:56.7 | saying the word foot race, and stolen football chance? |
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