Injury time subs, Screwfix adverts and begging for players' shirts, with Jonathan Liew
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and Charlie Eccleshare are joined by The Guardian sports writer Jonathan Liew for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks.
Among Jonathan's selections for his footballing fascinations and irritations are the soundtracks to YouTube football compilations, tenuous football references in non-football advertising and the modern Premier League epidemic of "Can I have your shirt [Player X]?" signs.
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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. |
| 0:08.0 | Is Gas going to have a crack? |
| 0:10.0 | Yes, you know. |
| 0:12.0 | Oh, he's there! |
| 0:14.0 | Brilliant! |
| 0:16.0 | He's round the goalkeeper! He's done it! |
| 0:22.9 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:29.0 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd, and Kung Fu kicked. |
| 0:33.6 | A supporter who was eyewit without a shadow of an out giving him lip. |
| 0:36.8 | Oh, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:39.9 | It does it tame, and tame, and tame amazing. It does it tame and tame and tame again. |
| 0:41.4 | Crank up the music. |
| 0:43.3 | Chargerglass. |
| 0:47.4 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:51.4 | Shattering the illusion of Managers' Match Day program notes, |
| 0:54.4 | trying to find meaning in the soundtracks of YouTube football compilations, the sadness in the eyes of a pointless 94th minute substitute, |
| 1:00.1 | why one DIY hardware retailer is to blame for the unsavageable connection between football |
| 1:04.8 | and wider culture and an earth-shattering expose of the murky world of can I have your |
| 1:10.4 | shirt player X signs brought to your |
| 1:13.2 | ears by the athletic this is football clichés hello everyone and welcome to episode |
| 1:22.6 | 125 of the football clichés podcast i'm adam hurry and with me for this one is Charlie Eccleshare. |
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