League Cup champions don't exist & the big upfield/downfield debate

For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

The Athletic

Soccer,, Sports

4.8 • 538 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by David Walker and Charlie Eccleshare for the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda: Using the word "champions" for cup winners, Jurgen Klinsmann's perfect new job, a brief history of Steve McManaman measuring space in ounces, a Sheffield Wednesday fan's ABBA dilemma and the looming prospect of a "Big Seven" in English football.

Meanwhile, the panel decide what constitutes a defender "doing just enough" and ponder whether "upfield" and "downfield" really do mean the exact same thing.

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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.
0:43.5	Charge a glass.
0:45.3	This nation is going to dance all night.
0:49.0	The growing misuse of the word champions
0:51.6	for competitions that don't warrant it.
0:53.6	An international manager
0:54.6	appointment that just feels so right. Steve McManerman's 11-year obsession with a footballing
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