Swashbuckling centre-backs & mercurial wingers: The Classic Adjective XI
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker select a lineup of the most classic footballer-related adjectives, from "eccentric" goalkeepers to "impish" forwards via "talismanic" midfielders.
Meanwhile, the Adjudication Panel pick out the classic protagonists of a textbook pitch invasion, cast doubt over the Premier League futures of some emerging transfer-gossip stars and take a deep dive into Richard Keys and Andy Gray's 2002 appearance on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"
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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. |
| 0:09.0 | Is Gas going to have a crack? |
| 0:11.0 | He is, you know. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh, he's there! |
| 0:14.0 | Brilliant! |
| 0:18.0 | He's ran the goalkeeper! |
| 0:20.8 | He's done it! |
| 0:22.5 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:24.5 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd, and Kung Fu kicked. |
| 0:30.6 | A supporter who was eyewit without a shadow of an out giving him lip. |
| 0:35.1 | Oh, I say! |
| 0:37.0 | It's amazing! It does it tame, and tame, and tame, giving him lip! Oh, I say! It's amazing. |
| 0:38.1 | It does it tame, and tame, and tame again. |
| 0:41.1 | Frank up the music! Chargerglass! |
| 0:45.1 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:49.4 | The classic protagonists of a textbook pitch invasion, |
| 0:52.6 | the transfer gossip column stars who simply won't ever make it to the Premier League, |
| 0:56.0 | no matter how hard we try, |
| 0:57.5 | the eccentric, swashbuckling, impish and talismanic selections for our adjective 11 |
| 1:02.2 | and a forensic analysis of Richard Keyes and Andy Gray |
| 1:05.4 | on who wants to be a millionaire. |
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