Footballs - why we love to kick them
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Ecclehare and Sam Lee discuss the most important piece of equipment in the game - the ball. Where does the design of match balls go next? Was the Mitre Mouldmaster the worst football of all time? Are we about to witness the death of knuckleball? And, quite simply, what are microflaps?
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| 0:42.8 | I'm sorry, you can sit there and look and play with all your silly machines as much as you like. |
| 0:47.9 | Is gas going to have a crack? |
| 0:49.7 | He is, you know. |
| 0:50.5 | Oh, he's there! |
| 0:53.2 | Brilliant! |
| 0:56.3 | He's round the go! you know. Oh, I say! Brilliant! But cheese! |
| 0:57.5 | He's round the goalkeeper! |
| 0:58.7 | He's done it! |
| 1:00.3 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 1:02.2 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd, and Kung Fu kicked a supporter who was |
| 1:10.0 | Iwit without a shadow of an out giving him lip. |
| 1:12.9 | Oh, I say, it's amazing. |
| 1:16.0 | It does it tame and tame and tame again. |
| 1:18.9 | Frank of the music, charge a glass. |
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