The crossbar crisis, regurgitated corners & a tricky trip to Google Road
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by David Walker and Nick Miller for the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda: the epidemic of non-regulation-height crossbars, Countdown's Susie Dent plants her flag on Clichés soil, a predictable twist for anti-VAR discourse and a very curious description of a Serie A penalty.
Meanwhile, the panel debate if a striker can be the "heartbeat" of a team and whether a Sunday league team can have their own footballing "way".
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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? He is, you know. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh, he's there! |
| 0:15.0 | Brilliant! |
| 0:19.0 | He's round the goalkeeper! |
| 0:21.1 | He's done it! |
| 0:22.7 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:24.7 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd, and Kung Fu kicked. |
| 0:30.8 | A supporter who was eyewit without a shadow of an out giving him lip. |
| 0:35.3 | Oh, I say! |
| 0:37.3 | It's amazing! It does it tame, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:38.4 | It does it tame and tame and tame again. |
| 0:41.3 | Frank up the music. |
| 0:43.4 | Charge a glass. |
| 0:45.3 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:49.3 | A borderline 12-gold thriller, can a Sunday league team have their own footballing way? What the |
| 0:55.1 | hell is happening to the nation's crossbars? Can a striker be the heartbeat of a team? Countdown |
| 1:00.4 | Ace Susie Dent plants her flag on cliché soil. The greatest opinion on VAR ever uttered. Can |
| 1:06.1 | second v third be a top-of-the-table clash? Tottenham kicking off at Google Road in 2024, and |
| 1:11.8 | Keyes and Grey, yet again, on Gagin Pressing. |
| 1:14.6 | Brought to your ears by The Athletic, this is football clichés. |
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