Maracana phoneboxes and "the zone of elaboration", with Tim Vickery
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and Charlie Eccleshare are joined by the BBC's South American football correspondent Tim Vickery for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks.
Among Tim's selections for his footballing loves and hates are traffic-stopping post-match celebrations, the relentlessness of the Brazilian football calendar and impatient, vertical football
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| 0:00.0 | I'm sorry you can sit there and look and play with all your silly machines as much as you like. |
| 0:05.0 | Is Gas going to have a crack? He is, you know. |
| 0:08.0 | Oh, he's there! |
| 0:10.0 | Brilliant! |
| 0:14.0 | But gee! He's round the goalkeeper! |
| 0:17.0 | He's done it! Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:20.0 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd, and Kung Fu kicked a supporter who was eyewit without a shadow of and out giving him lip. |
| 0:31.1 | Oh, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:34.1 | It does it tame, and tame, and tame again. |
| 0:37.0 | Frank of the music, charger glass. |
| 0:41.0 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:44.8 | Bone boxes behind the goal at the American R, the threshold at which a football match |
| 0:48.8 | becomes a boring football match. |
| 0:50.8 | The underappreciated post-game power shift between humans and cars, the labyrinth |
| 0:55.2 | of the Brazilian League calendar, and the least aesthetically satisfying ways to see a football |
| 0:59.7 | propelled by a professional. |
| 1:01.7 | Broad to your ears by The Athletic. |
| 1:03.7 | This is football clichés. |
| 1:08.4 | Hello everyone and welcome to episode 151 of football cliches. I'm Adam Horry and alongside |
| 1:14.3 | me for this is Charlie Eccleshare. How are you? Good. How are you? Yeah, not too bad. On Tuesday |
| 1:19.5 | afternoon, while I was trying to take a day off from thinking about the innocuous rhythms of the |
| 1:26.1 | English footballing language, you sent me a WhatsApp simply saying, what's the cliche about dribbling it in a phone box? Is it he so good he could dribble his way out of a phone box? Why do I do this to me on a day off? Because I couldn't not reply and sort it out for you. If only I'd known, yeah. I guess though the language of football never sleeps. |
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