Peter Drury on biased commentary and meaningless stats
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and Charlie Eccleshare are joined by football commentator Peter Drury for the latest edition of 'Mesut Haaland Dicks'.
Peter's picks for his loves and hates of modern football include gloriously biased local radio commentary, meaningless statistics and teams wearing their away kits for absolutely no reason.
Meanwhile, the Adjudication Panel also discuss whether we should really be betting on what commentators are going to say during a live TV game and the surprisingly controversial subject of which English club's name has the most forgettable suffix
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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. |
| 0:08.0 | Is Gas going to have a crack? He is, you know. |
| 0:12.0 | Oh, he's there! |
| 0:14.0 | Brilliant! |
| 0:16.0 | He's round the goalkeeper! He's done it! |
| 0:21.7 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:23.6 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd, and Kung Fu kicked a supporter who was eyewp without a shadow of an out giving him lip. |
| 0:34.2 | Oh, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:37.3 | It does it tame, and tame, and's amazing. It does it tame and tame and tame again. |
| 0:40.2 | Crank of the music. |
| 0:42.3 | Charge a glass. |
| 0:44.2 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:48.7 | Superfluous suffixes, the glorious partisans of local radio commentary, |
| 0:53.6 | meaningless statistics and unnecessary kit changes. |
| 0:56.8 | These are the footballing loves and hates of Peter Drury. |
| 1:00.8 | Brought to your ears by The Athletic, |
| 1:02.7 | this is football cliches. |
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| 1:29.3 | Hurry and with me as he often is is Charlie Eccleshare. The words paternity leave, |
| 1:34.0 | just a word's on a piece of paper to you, aren't they really? Yeah, I'm on paternity leave. |
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