Square pegs in round holes: The Ultimate Makeshift XI
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, James Maw and Michael Cox cobble together a line-up of emergency goalkeepers, stoppers, enforcers and goal-poachers.
Why is there such a rich history of strikers fancying themselves at centre-back? Why do we assume that ageing forwards will be able to retire to midfield and "spray the ball about"? Are right-footed left-backs the most unsatisfying sight in football?
They're spectacularly out of position, but ready to do a job for you - it's the ultimate Makeshift XI.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | I'm sorry, you can sit there and look and play with all your silly machines as much as you like. |
| 0:11.0 | Is gas going to have a crack? |
| 0:12.8 | He is, you know. |
| 0:13.6 | Oh, he's there! |
| 0:16.2 | Brilliant! |
| 0:19.4 | He's round the goalkeeper! |
| 0:21.7 | He's done it! |
| 0:22.6 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:24.6 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd and Kung Fu kicked a supporter who was Iwit without a shadow of an out giving him lip. |
| 0:35.6 | Oh I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:39.0 | It does it tame and tame and tame again. |
| 0:42.0 | Crank up the music. |
| 0:44.1 | Charge a glass. |
| 0:46.0 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:50.4 | Emergency goalkeepers, towering right backs, absolutely baffling left backs, the most natural |
| 0:56.5 | centre-half partnership ever conceived, the enduring obsession with strikers moving back into |
| 1:01.2 | midfield and spraying the ball about, and obviously, Paul Warhurst. |
| 1:06.0 | Brought to your ears by The Athletic, this is football Clisades and the Ultimate MakeShift 11. |
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