Playing with a Pro, Brits Abroad & The Future Language of Football
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and Seb Stafford-Bloor gather for episode 42 of the Football Cliches podcast and begin with tales of what it's like to actually play football with a proper professional player.
Why are such seemingly average ex-pros so unbelievably good when they enter the mortal realm of the 5-a-side pitch? And why is Nigel Winterburn so bloody difficult to nutmeg?
There's also discussion of Mauricio Pochettino's MNF punditry appearance/job interview, Mick McCarthy signing up to be the latest Brit Abroad after taking the APOEL Nicosia job, and with the help of Peter Reid we discuss whether terms like 'half-space' and 'high press' are really just a load of old bollocks or genuinely worthy of their place in the modern-day footballing vocabulary.
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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. |
| 0:10.2 | Is gas going to have a crack? He is, you know. Oh, he fell! Brilliant! |
| 0:18.5 | He's round the goalkeeper! |
| 0:20.8 | He's done it! |
| 0:22.6 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:24.5 | 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. |
| 0:35.1 | Oh, I say! |
| 0:37.0 | It's amazing! It does it tame and tame and tame, giving him lip! Oh, I say! It's amazing! |
| 0:38.1 | It does it tame, and tame, and tame again. |
| 0:41.1 | Frank of the music! |
| 0:43.2 | Charge a glass! |
| 0:45.1 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:49.8 | What is it really like when a professional footballer turns up at your five-aside? |
| 0:54.0 | When did Monday Night Football become the ultimate managerial job interview? |
| 0:57.8 | Why are Brits abroad still such a footballing novelty? |
| 1:00.5 | And what the hell is happening to the language of football? |
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