International talismans, brave battlers and disappointing deflections: The listeners do Mesut Haaland Dicks
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker present a new monthly edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks, in which the pod's army of listeners nominate their niche footballing fascinations and irritations.
Among the Football Clichés faithful's selections are one very specific pass out from the back by a centre-back, international teams with just one world-class player, the tiny aesthetic things that briefly ruin a game for the neutral, wondergoals that turn out to be disappointing deflections and beaten teams being described as "brave".
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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. |
| 0:10.0 | Is Gas going to have a crack? |
| 0:12.0 | He is, you know. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh, he's there! |
| 0:14.0 | Brilliant! |
| 0:18.0 | He's round the goalkeeper! |
| 0:21.1 | He's done it! |
| 0:22.7 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:24.7 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd, and Kung Fu kicked a supporter who was eyewit without a shadow of an out giving him lip. |
| 0:35.3 | Oh, I say! |
| 0:37.3 | It's amazing! It does it tame, and tame, getting him lip. Oh, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:38.4 | It does it tame and tame and tame again. |
| 0:41.3 | Frank up the music, charger glass. |
| 0:45.3 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:49.5 | Finding the holy grail of some unattended public goalposts with netting attached. |
| 0:53.9 | The very specific modern footballing phenomenon of a ball-playing centreback suddenly |
| 0:58.1 | breaking the lines. |
| 0:59.4 | International teams with just one world-class player. |
| 1:02.2 | Away kits going back to basics. |
| 1:04.4 | Tiny aesthetic things that ruin a game for the neutral. |
| 1:07.5 | Disappointing deflections, especially ones that society refuses to recognise even years later. |
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