Rainham Steel, statuesque goalkeepers and fraudulent throw-in appeals, with Rory Smith
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and Charlie Eccleshare are joined for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks by Rory Smith, chief soccer correspondent of the New York Times and author of the new book Expected Goals: The story of how data conquered football and changed the game forever.
Among Rory's selections for his footballing fascinations and irritations are Premier League advertising hoardings for quaint local businesses; goalkeepers rooted to the spot as shots fly past them into the net; the unquestioned tradition of having a wall at a free kick and players who claim throw-ins that they know aren't theirs.
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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. |
| 0:10.4 | Is Gas going to have a crack? |
| 0:12.1 | He is, you know. |
| 0:12.9 | Oh, he's there! |
| 0:15.6 | Brilliant! |
| 0:18.7 | He's round the goalkeeper! |
| 0:21.1 | He's done it! |
| 0:22.8 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:24.7 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd, and Kung Fu kicked. |
| 0:30.8 | A supporter who was eyewit without a shadow of an out giving him lip. |
| 0:35.3 | Oh, I say! |
| 0:37.2 | It's amazing! It does it tame, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:38.4 | It does it tame and tame and tame again. |
| 0:41.3 | Frank of the music, charge a glass. |
| 0:45.3 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:49.7 | The Kate AD of the Football Data Wars, a brief history of quaint advertising hoardings in English football. |
| 0:55.9 | Goalkeepers who just watch shots go past them without even moving. |
| 0:58.9 | Teams who never have to wear their away kits. |
| 1:01.1 | The unspoken ridiculousness of a defensive wall at a free kick. |
| 1:04.7 | Why popular culture isn't embracing football enough? |
| 1:07.4 | And the psychology and body language of micro-cheating. |
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