No Context Peter Drury, a spate of sackings & leaving everything out there

For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

The Athletic

Soccer,, Sports

4.8 • 538 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by David Walker and Nick Miller for the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda: the need for a collective noun for manager sackings, some deluxe-level Peter Drury commentary, the mid-weekend shorthand language of title races and the most ‘on in the background during a pub lunch’ fixture of all.

Meanwhile, the panel ponder the footballing verb "to stun" in a modern context and begin the search for the most unthreateningly-named hooligan firm in the UK

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:04.9	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's there.
0:15.6	Brilliant.
0:18.8	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.
0:35.4	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	Crank up the music, charge a glass.
0:45.3	This nation is going to dance all night.
0:49.3	The crowd sounds of South Wales, a collective noun for sackings.
0:53.8	No context, Peter Drury, the shorthand mid-weekend language of title races, the greatest notable name X of field of expertise Y of all time, uncertain times for the footballing verb to stun, leaving everything out there versus not leaving anything out there, non-threatening hooligan firm names,
1:11.4	and the most on in the background during a pub lunch fixture of all.
1:15.1	Brought to your ears by The Athletic, this is football cliches.
1:21.8	Hello everyone and welcome to episode 246 of football cliches.
1:26.7	I'm Adam Hurry and my adjudication panellists today are David Walker.
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