How To Talk About Football and Get Away With It
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Adam Hurrey, Nick Miller and Neale Rigg explore peculiarities and socially awkward scenarios surrounding football small talk.
Why is the opening gambit of asking someone who they support so fraught with peril? Is there any better footballing small talk than with a taxi driver on holiday? How do you chat to a fairweather football fan? And what is the most tedious football trivia question of all?
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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? He is, you know. |
| 0:12.0 | Oh, he's there! |
| 0:14.0 | Brilliant! |
| 0:16.0 | But cheese! He's round the goalkeeper. He's done it. |
| 0:21.8 | Absolutely incredible. |
| 0:23.8 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd and Kung Fu kicked a supporter who was eyew |
| 0:32.0 | without a shadow of an out giving him lip. |
| 0:34.4 | Oh, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:37.5 | It does it tame and tame and tame again. |
| 0:40.4 | Frank up the music, charge a glass. |
| 0:44.4 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:48.4 | Why is the opening gambit of asking someone who they support so fraught with peril? |
| 0:53.1 | Is there any better footballing small talk than with a taxi driver on holiday? |
| 0:56.8 | How do you chat to a fair weather football fan? |
| 0:59.3 | And what is the most tedious football trivia question of all? |
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