"Super Ridiculo": How we all chewed up the Super League and spat it out
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker pick through the rubble of the 48-hour-long European Super League and what it meant for our consumption of modern football.
How did Gary Neville become the Pied Piper of football discourse? Why did nobody use the words "game's gone" despite the game quite literally nearly going?
Did we witness the worst-ever instance of politicians deploying football analogies? And what was the most surreal moment of the whole news cycle?
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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 |
| 0:08.0 | Is gas going to have a crack? |
| 0:11.0 | Yes you know |
| 0:12.0 | Oh, he's there |
| 0:14.0 | Brilliant |
| 0:16.0 | He's round the goalkeeper |
| 0:20.0 | He's done it! |
| 0:21.6 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:23.6 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd, and Kung Fu kicked. |
| 0:29.8 | A supporter who was eyewit without a shadow of an out giving him lip. |
| 0:34.3 | Oh, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:37.3 | It does it tame, and tame, it's amazing. It does it tame and tame and tame again. |
| 0:40.3 | Crank up the music. |
| 0:42.4 | Charge a glass. |
| 0:44.2 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:48.1 | Brian Swanson and big numbers, the sleazy six, the dirty dozen, |
| 0:52.7 | politicians issuing yellow cards, countdown Susie Dent, |
| 0:56.4 | cracked badges, hysterical European front pages, homemade banners, Ian Holloway, Prince Philip, |
| 1:03.0 | Rob Holdings Piano and 101,000 abandoned Twitter followers. |
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