Raps, Roars and "Roo": How (not) to write a football headline

For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

The Athletic

Soccer,, Sports

4.8 • 538 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Jack Pitt-Brooke and Alex Kay-Jelski pick apart the often awkward but occasionally glorious genre of football headlines, from "Super Caley go ballistic, Celtic are atrocious" to "Lionel Flair!", via the strict rules that govern the evergreen "Z, Y and Z" long-read headline format.

Plus: the definitive guide to words that only appear at the top of football stories - but you should never say them out loud.

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:04.9	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.
0:19.1	He's round the goalkeeper!
0:21.1	He's done it!
0:22.7	Absolutely incredible!
0:24.7	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.
0:35.3	Oh, I say! It's amazing!
0:38.4	It does it tame, and tame, and tame again.
0:41.3	Frank of the music!
0:43.4	Chargerglass!
0:45.3	This nation is going to dance all night.
0:49.9	Bafflingly dated pop culture references,
0:52.8	managers roaring, vowing, admitting and hailing,
0:56.0	young boys' wankdorf erection relief,
0:58.4	and the curious artificial language of football headlines.
1:02.0	Brought to your ears by The Athletic,
1:03.9	this is football cliches.
1:16.6	Hello everyone and welcome to episode 99 of the Football Cl clichés podcast.
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