The Game's Gone!
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and George Caulkin examine the evolution of footballing outrage: from the backpass law to the 39th Game, from expected goals to players swapping shirts at half-time...and why poor, old Stockley Park has become the supposed resting place for football as we know it. But what exactly does "the game's gone" even mean?
They also discuss whether you can you ever be in "the final hour" of a match and, of course, the soap opera transfer merry-go-round.
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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. |
| 0:09.0 | Is gas going to have a crack? |
| 0:11.0 | He is, you know. |
| 0:12.0 | Oh, he's there! |
| 0:14.0 | Brilliant! |
| 0:18.0 | He's round the goalkeeper! |
| 0:20.0 | He's done it! Absolutely, he's done it! |
| 0:21.9 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:23.9 | 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. |
| 0:34.6 | Oh, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:37.6 | It does it tame, and tame, it's amazing. It does it tame and tame and tame again. |
| 0:40.6 | Frank of the music, Chargerglass. |
| 0:44.5 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:48.0 | The backpass law, the 39th game, swapping shirts at half time, |
| 0:53.1 | goal music, snoods, XG, cheese rooms, mossy's boots and Stockley Park. |
| 0:58.9 | Has the game gone? If not, when? |
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