Half-yards, acres of space and the corridor of uncertainty: mapping the modern football pitch
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and Michael Cox navigate their way around the language of the football pitch, from the fabled "mixer" to the sovereign state of "James Ward-Prowse territory". How big is a "pocket of space"? How exactly does a goalkeeper find themselves in "no man's land"? And will football ever go fully metric?
They also discuss whether "cheese slice" is ever an acceptable way to describe a yellow card and precisely what constitutes "rolling back the years", before Charlie and Michael go head-to-head in the latest instalment of "Out Of Control".
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.0 | I'm sorry, you can sit there and look and play with all your silly machines as much as you like. |
| 0:09.0 | Is Gas going to have a crack? |
| 0:11.0 | He is, you know. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh, he's there! |
| 0:14.0 | Brilliant! |
| 0:16.0 | He's round the goalkeeper! |
| 0:20.9 | He's done it! |
| 0:22.5 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:24.4 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd, and Kung Fu kicked. |
| 0:30.5 | A supporter who was Iwit without a shadow of an out giving him lip. |
| 0:35.1 | Oh, I say! |
| 0:37.0 | It's amazing! It does it tame, and tame, and tame, getting him lip! Oh, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:38.1 | It does it tame, and tame, and tame again. |
| 0:41.1 | Crank up the music, charge a glass. |
| 0:45.1 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:49.3 | Rolling back the years, cheese slices, the corridor of uncertainty, |
| 0:53.3 | James Warprow Proust territory, pockets, areas, acute slices, the corridor of uncertainty, James Ward-Prouse territory, |
| 0:55.5 | pockets, areas, acute angles, no man's land, postage stamps, oceans of room, acres of space |
| 1:01.8 | and half a yard. |
| 1:03.6 | Brought to your ears by The Athletic, this is football clichés. |
| 1:07.8 | Right now, you can subscribe to The Athletic for a special price of $3.99 a month for six months. |
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