Sunday League pre-seasons and how to 'bring the ball under your spell', with Josh Pugh
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and Charlie Eccleshare are joined by comedian and writer Josh Pugh for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks. Among Josh's selections are players who go to World Cups because they're "good to have around", the phrase "bringing the ball under their spell", Sunday League pre-season regimes and the complex philosophy of "playing football the right way".
Meanwhile, the Adjudication Panel enjoy some more quintessential Glenn Hoddle co-commentary and an ex-player very politely editing their own Wikipedia page.
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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? |
| 0:12.2 | He is, you know. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh, he's there! |
| 0:15.6 | Brilliant! |
| 0:18.8 | He's round the goalkeeper! |
| 0:21.1 | He's done it! |
| 0:22.8 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:24.8 | 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. |
| 0:35.4 | Oh, I say! |
| 0:37.3 | It's amazing! It does it tame, and tame, getting him lip. Oh, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:38.4 | It does it tame, and tame, and tame again. |
| 0:41.4 | crank up the music, charge a glass. |
| 0:45.3 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:49.3 | Glenn Hoddle on toast, ex-player's very politely editing their own Wikipedia pages, players who are good |
| 0:55.3 | to have around the place, the phrase bringing the ball under his spell, the deluded |
| 0:59.9 | innovations of Sunday League pre-season, a very specifically phrased coaching instruction, establishing |
| 1:05.5 | the ground rules of bringing a 1960s legend to 2023 and a time machine to see if they could hack it, |
| 1:11.7 | and the complex philosophy of playing football the right way. |
| 1:15.5 | Brought to your ears by The Athletic. |
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