The A-Z of football clichés - Part One

For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

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Soccer,, Sports

4.8 • 538 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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0:00.0	I'm sorry, you can sit there and look and play with all your silly machines as much as you like.
0:09.3	Is gas going to have a crack?
0:11.0	He is, you know.
0:11.8	Oh, he's there.
0:14.5	Brilliant.
0:17.7	But gee!
0:18.9	He's ran the goalkeeper.
0:20.3	He's done it!
0:21.6	Absolutely incredible!
0:23.6	He launched himself six feet into the crowd, and Kung Fu kicked.
0:29.7	A supporter who was eyewit without a shadow of an out giving him lip.
0:34.2	Oh, I say, it's amazing.
0:37.3	He does it tame, and tame, it's amazing. It does it tame and tame and tame again.
0:40.2	Crank up the music.
0:42.3	Charge a glass.
0:44.2	This nation is going to dance all night.
0:48.5	The vocabulary of football is a fascinating one.
0:51.5	A mishmash of strange words and quaint phrases,
0:55.9	stolen and reappropriated from other places and even other centuries. You read these words all over the place, but most of them
1:00.9	should never really be said out loud with a straight face, until now. Brought to your ears
1:05.6	by the Athletic, this is football cliches. Joining me for this alphabetical odyssey through the language of football, first of all, it's Charlie Eccleshare, who I should describe you in football terms.
1:17.5	You are 33-year-old London-born football scribe.
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