Fortresses and cauldrons: the language of football stadiums
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and Charlie Eccleshare welcome Vithushan Ehantharajah on loan from the Independent and the Football Ramble to explore football stadiums....or should that be stadia?
Is it "stamping ground" or "stomping ground"? What constitutes a "fortress"? What’s the most patronised ground in football? How does a stadium become a cauldron? And whatever happened to those Qatari World Cup robot clouds…
Meanwhile, the Adjudication Panel get stuck into some fresh, young English managerspeak and perhaps the greatest ever use of the phrase "in and around".
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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. |
| 0:06.1 | Is gas going to have a crack? |
| 0:07.8 | Yes, you know. |
| 0:08.6 | Oh, he's there! |
| 0:11.3 | Brilliant! |
| 0:14.8 | He's round the goalkeeper! |
| 0:17.2 | He's done it! |
| 0:18.4 | That's a lovely incredible! |
| 0:20.4 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd, |
| 0:24.4 | and Kung Fu kicked a supporter who was eyewit |
| 0:28.7 | without a shadow of and out giving him lip. |
| 0:31.0 | Oh, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:34.1 | It does it tame, and tame, and tame again. |
| 0:37.0 | Frank of the music, chargegerglass. This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:45.5 | Stadiums or stadia? Stamping ground or stomping ground. What constitutes a fortress? |
| 0:51.7 | What's the most patronised stadium in football? |
| 0:56.3 | How does a stadium become a cauldron? |
| 0:59.9 | And whatever happens to the Qatarie World Cup robot clouds? |
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