Max Rushden on Sunday League aggro, ex-footballer ice-breakers and the noble art of the target man
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and Charlie Eccleshare are joined by Guardian Football Weekly host and former Soccer AM ace Max Rushden for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks.
Among Max's selections for his footballing fascinations and irritations are unnecessarily violent Sunday League opponents, the nostalgic glory of the target man, banal football questions posed by official social media accounts and 5-a-side team-mates who refuse to play the ball backwards.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:03.5 | I'm sorry, you can sit there and look and play with all your silly machines as much as you like. |
| 0:11.1 | Is Gas going to have a crack? |
| 0:12.9 | He is, you know. |
| 0:13.7 | Oh, he's there! |
| 0:16.4 | Brilliant! |
| 0:19.5 | He's round the goalkeeper. |
| 0:22.2 | He's done it. |
| 0:23.5 | Absolutely incredible. |
| 0:25.4 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd and Kung Fu kicked a supporter who was eyewit without a shadow of an out giving him lip. |
| 0:36.1 | Oh, I say. |
| 0:38.9 | It's amazing. |
| 0:42.0 | It does it tame, and tame, and tame again. |
| 0:43.5 | Break up the music. |
| 0:45.4 | Charge a glass. |
| 0:49.5 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:53.2 | The biannual beasts of Sunday League opposition, |
| 0:58.8 | the as-yet-unre-created footballing sensation of 1990s goal compilation videos. |
| 1:01.5 | The vinegory elbows of the fabled target man. |
| 1:05.6 | The bafflingly mundane football questions from official social media accounts. |
| 1:08.6 | The hyperbanter muscle memory of the average ex-footballer and five-a-side teammates who refuse your invitation of back if you need. |
| 1:12.5 | Brought to your ears by The Athletic, this is football cliches. |
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