Pele, Zlatan and the small matter of global thermonuclear war
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and Nick Miller convene for an extended meeting of the Adjudication Panel, in which they try and untangle the statistical chaos of Pele vs Cristiano Ronaldo, celebrate the phrase “basement boys” and decide which footballing things would survive a nuclear apocalypse.
They also decide if anyone has the patience for a summer of “Zlatan” at the Euros, ponder the age-old clichés of retired footballers, before Charlie and Nick go head-to-head in the first edition of new quiz format “Out of Control”.
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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. |
| 0:09.0 | Is gas going to have a crack? |
| 0:11.0 | Yes, you know. |
| 0:12.0 | Oh, he's there! |
| 0:14.0 | Brilliant! |
| 0:18.0 | But cheese! |
| 0:19.0 | He's round the goalkeeper. He's done it. |
| 0:22.2 | Absolutely incredible. |
| 0:24.2 | 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. |
| 0:34.8 | Oh, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:37.8 | It does it tame, and tame, and tame again. |
| 0:40.8 | Frank of the music, charge a glass. |
| 0:44.8 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:49.0 | Small matters of, Jamie Rednaps sucking your hands off. |
| 0:53.0 | Should we start pronouncing it, |
| 0:54.3 | Golemouth, celebrating the phrase basement boys, the global ramifications of a Beneliga, |
| 0:59.7 | and a worryingly detailed look at how the 2018 World Cup would have gone if there had been a global |
| 1:05.0 | phomernuclear war. |
| 1:06.9 | Brought to your ears by The Athletic, this is football cliches. |
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| 1:16.8 | That's 40% off the full price of the subscription. |
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