Managers in sunglasses, pointless punditry and the definition of a disallowed goal, with Geoff Shreeves
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and Charlie Eccleshare are joined by Sky Sports' chief touchline reporter Geoff Shreeves for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks.
Among Geoff's selections for his footballing fascinations and irritations are pundits' pointless turns of phrase, microscopic modern shinpads, why Steve McClaren's infamous umbrella has also led to an anti-sunglasses stigma in football and the matchday heroics of the broadcaster's sound supervisors in capturing the noise of ball against woodwork.
Adam and Charlie also pick their favourite extracts from Shreeves' new book Cheers, Geoff! Tales from the Touchline.
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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, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:38.4 | It does it tame and tame and tame again. |
| 0:41.3 | Frank up the music. |
| 0:43.4 | Charger glass. |
| 0:45.3 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:49.6 | F-A cup engraving data, pointless turns of pundritory phrase, missed penalties, microscopic |
| 0:55.5 | shin pads, getting Ron Atkinson's headphones straight in the face, managers in sunglasses, |
| 1:00.9 | and the unsung heroes who are the live TV sound supervisors. These are the footballing |
| 1:06.1 | passions and peeves of Jeff Shreaves. Brought to your ears by The Athletic. This is football cliches. |
| 1:23.2 | Hello everyone and welcome to episode 201 of football cliches. |
| 1:27.1 | I'm Adam Horry and alongside me for this one is Charlie Eccleshare. How's it going, Charlie? I'm good. How are you? |
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