Is it better to be a carthorse or a donkey?
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and - for his 100th appearance on the pod - David Walker. On the agenda: the specific footballing skills referenced most in football chants, what constitutes being "held to a draw" and a revolutionary but unacceptable usage of the oldest football cliché of all.
Meanwhile, the panel consider the merits of "the Maracana of skiing" and weigh up the fundamental footballing differences between a "carthorse" and a "donkey".
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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? He is, you know. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh, he's there! |
| 0:15.0 | Brilliant! |
| 0:19.0 | 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. |
| 0:30.8 | 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, and out 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. |
| 0:49.1 | Why is running down the wing so disproportionately celebrated in football chance? |
| 0:53.8 | What defines a team being held to a draw, |
| 0:56.5 | can a cross ever be defence splitting? |
| 0:58.7 | A revolutionary but unacceptable usage of the oldest cliché in the book? |
| 1:02.8 | A breath of fresh gold commentary air on match of the day. |
| 1:06.0 | Unjustifiable big Frenchman, |
| 1:07.7 | the Marrikan R of skiing, sticky type ropes, |
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