Interrogating celebrity fans and post-victory highlights binging, with Matt Lucas & Elis James
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by British comedy royalty Matt Lucas and his Fantasy Football League sidekick Elis James for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks.
Among Matt's selections for his footballing fascinations and irritations are using football small talk to win over your other half's dad, the schadenfreude of watching the opposition's Fan TV YouTube channels after a win and the interrogation techniques faced by celebrity fans of big clubs.
Meanwhile, the Adjudication Panel enjoy some research-based, middle-class football chanting from the National League South.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm sorry, you can sit there and look and play with all your silly machines as much as you like. |
| 0:10.4 | Is gas going to have a crack? |
| 0:12.2 | He is, you know. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh, he fell! |
| 0:15.6 | Brilliant! |
| 0:18.8 | But jeez! |
| 0:19.7 | He's round the goalkeeper! |
| 0:21.1 | He's done it! |
| 0:22.7 | He's totally incredible! |
| 0:24.7 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd, and Kung Fu kicked. |
| 0:30.8 | A supporter who was eyewit without a shadow of an out giving him lip. |
| 0:35.4 | 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. |
| 0:41.4 | Frank up the music, charge a glass. |
| 0:45.3 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:50.0 | Research-based middle-class football chance. |
| 0:52.9 | Using football to win round your other half's dad, |
| 0:55.4 | how many times can you physically rewatch a game your team as won until you're satisfied? |
| 0:59.8 | Revelling in the post-win Shardon Freuder of the opposition's fan TV YouTube channel, |
| 1:04.5 | the interrogation techniques faced by celebrity fans of big clubs, |
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