Football and Twitter
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Harriet Drudge and Jack Pitt-Brooke join forces for a look at the weird and wonderful relationship football has with Twitter.
We travel back to the innocent age of early twitter when football parody accounts ruled the roost, we ponder the perils of being the admin for the official club account and pine for the days where Wayne Rooney asked Rio Ferdinand if he still wanted a lift for training.
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| 0:00.0 | Football Clisches is brought to you by Bet365, the world's favourite online betting company. |
| 0:05.3 | By downloading the Bet365 app, you can access both pre-match and in-play markets, |
| 0:09.9 | along with instant match updates for all games. |
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| 0:21.5 | your hands. |
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| 0:35.8 | I'm sorry, you can sit there and look and play with all your silly machines as much as you like. |
| 0:41.0 | Is Gascoing going to have a crack? |
| 0:42.9 | He is, you know. |
| 0:43.7 | Oh, he's there! |
| 0:46.4 | Brilliant! |
| 0:49.9 | He's round the goalkeeper! |
| 0:51.9 | He's done it! |
| 0:53.7 | Absolutely incredible! He launched himself goalkeeper! He's done it! Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:55.5 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd, and Kung Fu kicked. |
| 1:01.7 | A supporter who was eyewit without a shadow of and out giving him lip. |
| 1:06.2 | Oh, I say, it's amazing. |
| 1:09.2 | He does it tame, and and tame and tame again. |
| 1:12.2 | Frank up the music, charge a glass. |
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