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Hello, I'm Adam Horry and what you're about to hear is pure cliches.

A few minutes we think perfectly encapsulate the essence of our podcast.

So whether you hopped on board the football cliches bandwagon way back in the lockdown days

or you're still wondering just how deep into the language of the game this podcast goes.

We hope you enjoy our surgical treatment of the concept of a winger having a fallback on toast.

And one of our most glorious moments,

unearthing one of the holy grails of 1990s football culture,

the original punditry audio from the intro to Bedil and Skinner's Three Lines.

One particular observation from Lee Dixon was sent to me by Tom Miller, let's hear it.

It's Harry Kane for England.

I'll have a time in you can get the ball. We've just got to feed Saka.

Got Fernandez on toast. He doesn't know what to do with him.

Tom Miller asks Dave, according to Lee Dixon, Saka had Theo Hernandez on toast. Is it only a winger that can have a fullback on toast or any other usage is acceptable? It is that narrow, isn't it? That's the only toastable scenario in football, isn't it? I'd say so, yeah, I'd say so. Would, well, a striker out up against a centre back? You can't have anyone on toast in the central areas, Charlie, can you? No, I was thinking what that would be, though, that's where my moment. What would you say it when a centre-for, I mean, I guess bullying him or schooling him, many against the boys. Giving him the run-around run around yeah it's that sort of stuff

chasing shadows

I would actually I would actually permit

a limited use of the inverted

in the pocket in his pocket

I feel like a striker can have a defender in his pocket

I am sort of becoming more sympathetic to the inverse use of this

I think I heard that I think someone said that in relation to this game.

I can't remember.

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