Football Adverts
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare & James McNicholas pick apart memorable football-themed TV adverts. How did Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos and co get away with their 1998 airport antics? How did Gareth Southgate get embroiled in an Independent Television Commission investigation? Was the 1994 Jungle World Cup final marred by a doping scandal?
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| 0:00.0 | I'm sorry, you can sit there and look and play with all your silly machines as much as you like. |
| 0:11.1 | Is Gas going to have a crack? |
| 0:12.9 | He is, you know. |
| 0:13.7 | Oh, he's there. |
| 0:16.4 | Brilliant. |
| 0:19.5 | But gee! |
| 0:20.7 | He's round the goalkeeper. |
| 0:22.1 | He's done it. |
| 0:23.5 | Absolutely incredible. |
| 0:25.4 | 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. |
| 0:36.1 | Oh, I see. |
| 0:38.9 | It's amazing. |
| 0:42.0 | It does it tame and tame and tame again. |
| 0:43.5 | Crank up the music. |
| 0:45.4 | Charge a glass. |
| 0:49.5 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:56.8 | Would Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos and Co. get away with their 1998 airport antics in a post-911 world? |
| 1:01.1 | How did Gareth Southgate get embroiled in an independent television commission investigation? |
| 1:05.2 | And was the 1994 Jungle World Cup final marred by a doping scandal? |
| 1:09.7 | Brought to your ears by the athletic, this is football clichés. |
| 1:14.8 | Here with me to talk about footballers flogging football boots, Lucas Aid and Chicken Tonight, |
| 1:18.4 | Charlie Echoshire, welcome back. How are you? Good, how are you? |
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