The Art of the Penalty Kick
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and Katie Whyatt dive deep into the complex psychology of penalties, the eternal joy of goalkeepers taking spot kicks and the soap opera of shootouts.
They also discuss the recent trend of football goal celebrations on daytime quiz shows and the curious idea of Barnsley trying to sign Mario Balotelli, Katie watches Diana Ross's USA '94 penalty for the first time and then takes on Charlie in the Cliché Quiz.
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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. |
| 0:09.1 | Is Gascoing and have a crack? He is, you know. Oh, he's there! |
| 0:14.3 | Brilliant! |
| 0:17.5 | He's round the goalkeeper! He's done it! |
| 0:22.9 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:33.6 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd, and Kung Fu kicked a supporter who was eyewit without a shadow of an out giving him lip. |
| 0:36.8 | Oh, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:39.9 | It does it tame, and tame, and tame again. |
| 0:41.4 | Crank up the music. |
| 0:43.3 | Charge a glass. |
| 0:47.4 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:53.0 | Bargin Hunt badge kissing, Ballotelli to Barnsley, the glorious spectacle of goalkeeper taking penalties, |
| 0:57.1 | and should you ever say the word spot kick out loud? |
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| 1:22.9 | today we are talking all about penalties and the paranoia that goes around them. |
| 1:29.5 | There's plenty to talk about with that. |
| 1:31.4 | Before that, let me introduce my guest back again. |
| 1:34.1 | Charlie Eccleshare, how are you? |
| 1:35.6 | I'm good. How are you doing? |
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