Football chants you don't hear any more, with Elis James
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and Charlie Eccleshare are joined by comedian, actor and Swansea City fan Elis James for another edition of of 'Mesut Haaland Dicks'.
Among Elis's nominations are the curious cliché of The Kop "sucking the ball in" at Anfield, commentating over the top of his own goals at 5-a-side, the absurdly baggy sleeves of mid-1990s football shirts, and when TV and film just get football completely wrong.
Meanwhile, the Adjudication Panel also try to fathom why Dele Alli is the most popular name on football shirts in the US state of Vermont, the uncertain future of fans watching FA Cup ties from nearby trees and President-elect Joe Biden's metatarsal injury.
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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. |
| 0:08.0 | Is Gas going to have a crack? |
| 0:10.0 | He is, you know. |
| 0:11.0 | Oh, he's there! |
| 0:13.0 | Brilliant! |
| 0:15.0 | He's round the goalkeeper, he's done it! |
| 0:22.6 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:33.3 | 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. |
| 0:36.5 | Oh, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:39.5 | He does it tame, and tame, and tame amazing. It does it tame and tame and tame again. |
| 0:41.1 | Crank up the music. |
| 0:42.9 | Charge a glass. |
| 0:47.0 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:53.2 | The cops sucking the ball into the net, being the star of your own slow motion montage, |
| 0:55.4 | late 90s baggy sleeve syndrome, |
| 0:57.9 | and football charts you just don't hear anymore. |
| 1:02.3 | Brought to your ears by The Athletic, this is football clichés. |
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| 1:17.5 | forward slash cliches pod. Hello everyone and welcome to episode 46 of the cliches pod. |
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