Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam on metaphorical football matches and Gazza at Boston United
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and Charlie Eccleshare are joined by England's deputy chief medical officer and pandemic cult hero Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks.
Among Van-Tam's selections for his fascinations and irritations are the occasional accuracy of football films, the terrace humour down in the English sixth tier, weak referees allowing flagrant timewasting and the uniquely footballing anxiety that comes with "scoring too early".
Meanwhile, JVT shares memories of Paul Gascoigne turning out for his beloved Boston United, explains how he's convincing his family to let him have a BUFC tattoo, and we finally piece together the pulsating football match he used as his famous vaccination metaphor.
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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. |
| 0:12.0 | Is gas going to have a crack? He is, you know. |
| 0:15.0 | Oh, he's there! |
| 0:18.0 | Brilliant! |
| 0:20.0 | But gee! He's round the goalkeeper |
| 0:23.6 | He's done it |
| 0:24.6 | Absolutely incredible |
| 0:26.6 | He launched himself |
| 0:28.6 | six feet into the crowd |
| 0:30.6 | And Kung Fu kicked |
| 0:32.6 | A supporter who was |
| 0:34.6 | Iwit without a shadow of and out giving him lip. |
| 0:37.9 | Oh, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:41.0 | It does it tame and tame and tame again. |
| 0:43.9 | Crank up the music. |
| 0:46.0 | Charge a glass. |
| 0:47.9 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:52.3 | Watching Gaza roll back the years in League 2, the pros and cons of installing a turnstile in your own house referees buying him a pipe before games the lesser known footballing hotbed of lincolnshire scoring too early and other obscure midgame anxieties and finally piecing together the metaphorical pandemic football match going on in the brain of Professor Sir Jonathan Van Tam brought to your ears by the athletic this is football cliches |
| 1:19.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to episode 133 of football clichés. |
| 1:28.5 | I'm Adam Horry and with me for this one. |
| 1:30.5 | First of all is Charlie Equichita. |
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