The Best of Football Clichés in 2022 - Part Two
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The "whisper it quietly, but" phenomenon, more psychological Cliches Quiz warfare, when a "game of chess" becomes "cat and mouse", the footballing definition of "Johnny on the spot", Keys and Gray meet Sean Dyche, cometh the hour... cometh the scandal, The Premier League of Club Badges, the logistical nightmare of being a proverbial fly on a dressing-room wall, Gareth Southgate’s postman, a For My Sins Corner for the ages, the Woke VAR conspiracy, the greatest listeners’ MHD selection of the year and our personal World Cup broadcasting highlights.
In the second of an end-of-year double-header, Football Clichés takes another look at the podcast's very best moments of 2022.
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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. |
| 0:10.0 | Is Gas going to have a crack? |
| 0:12.0 | He is, you know. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh, he fell! |
| 0:14.0 | Brilliant! |
| 0:19.0 | He's round the goalkeeper! |
| 0:21.1 | He's done it! |
| 0:22.6 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:24.6 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd and Kung Fu kicked a supporter who was eyewit without a shadow of and out giving him lip. |
| 0:35.6 | Oh I say! |
| 0:36.6 | It's amazing. |
| 0:38.4 | It does it tame and tame and tame again. |
| 0:41.4 | Frank up the music, charge a glass. |
| 0:45.3 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:50.2 | The Whisper It Quietly But Phenomenon, |
| 0:53.4 | more psychological cliches quiz warfare. |
| 0:56.4 | When a game of chess becomes cat and mouse. |
| 0:59.5 | Connor Cody's football club. |
| 1:01.3 | The worst your shit are ever performed in English football. |
| 1:05.6 | Bambi on ice. |
| 1:06.8 | Johnny on the spot. |
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