The Foreign Influx
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Nick Miller and James Horncastle present a brief history of foreign players in the Premier League, from the flops to the superstars.
They look back at some of the more naive unveilings of exotic new signings - including Paolo Di Canio and a frozen pizza - the traditional challenges faced by Premier League imports and, once and for all, get to the bottom of the concept of "the English premium"
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.0 | I'm sorry |
| 0:04.6 | You can sit there and look and play with all your silly machines as much as you like |
| 0:08.2 | Is gas going to have a crack? |
| 0:10.9 | He is, you know |
| 0:11.6 | Oh, he's there |
| 0:12.8 | Brilliant |
| 0:15.0 | He's round the goalkeeper |
| 0:20.0 | He's done it! |
| 0:21.5 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:23.5 | 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. |
| 0:34.1 | Oh, I say, it's amazing! |
| 0:37.2 | It does it tame, and tame, and tame again. |
| 0:40.1 | Frank up the music, charge a glass. |
| 0:44.1 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:48.8 | Middlesbrough sombreros, Sheffield Wednesday's cold supermarket pizzas, |
| 0:53.0 | the Savo Milosevic Pritstick, |
| 0:54.9 | Ibrahim Abakiyoko, |
| 0:56.5 | Eric Cantonar's brother singing ace of bass |
| 0:58.6 | and the definitive example of the English premium. |
| 1:01.6 | Brought to your ears by The Athletic, |
| 1:03.5 | this is Football Cledia. |
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