Josh Denzel on fan-hugging etiquette, hapless stadium announcers and Turf Moor trips
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and Charlie Eccleshare are joined by sports presenter and 27th member of England's Euro 2020 squad Josh Denzel for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks.
Among Josh's selections for his footballing fascinations and irritations are hugging random strangers after a goal, the various quirks of the Premier League's stadium announcers and away trips to Burnley.
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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. |
| 0:09.0 | Is Gas going to have a crack? He is, you know. |
| 0:12.0 | Oh, he's there! |
| 0:14.0 | Brilliant! |
| 0:18.0 | He's round the goalkeeper! He's done it! |
| 0:22.1 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:24.1 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd, and Kung Fu kicked. |
| 0:30.1 | A supporter who was eyewit without a shadow of an out giving him lip. |
| 0:34.7 | Oh, I say! |
| 0:36.6 | It's amazing! He does it tame, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:37.7 | It does it tame, and tame, and tame again. |
| 0:40.7 | Frank up the music, charge a glass. |
| 0:44.7 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:48.5 | The art of hugging random strangers in the midst of post-goal ecstasy, |
| 0:53.1 | a deep dive into the occupational |
| 0:54.8 | hazards of stadium PA announcers, the intellectual property rights of player-specific football |
| 0:59.8 | chance, why Turf Moore is the most perfectly named ground in the Premier League, |
| 1:04.6 | apocalyptic scenes on Wembley Way, and Luke Shaw as Baccio Saka's stepdad. |
| 1:10.1 | Brought to your ears by the Athletic, this is Football Clices. |
| 1:20.5 | Hello everyone and welcome to episode 129 of Football Cletches. |
| 1:24.7 | I'm Adam Horry and with me first of all is Charlie Ackleshare. How are you? I'm good. How are you? Let's... Well, we have to play this, don't we? Because it's the natural conclusion to everything we've been talking about for the last 10 days or so. Thanks to Alexander Ward, who had the wherewithal to put together the Seria commentary that we know and love with the Le Miz soundtrack. |
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