The Overmythologised XI

For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

The Athletic

Soccer,, Sports

4.8 • 538 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and Michael Cox to compile a lineup of players whose myths, auras and internet legacies have eclipsed their mortal footballing existences.

The selection process takes in cartoon goalkeepers of the 1900s, defenders who played on one leg for half their career, "Scholes, of Manchester", a midfielder who defined both an entire role AND sparked the most boring football debate of all time, the token striker who was good on a computer game when you were 15, an 8,000-word Wikipedia page and the big question: Zlatan or Eric?

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:05.2	I'm sorry, you can sit there and look and play with all your silly machines as much as you like.
0:10.4	Is gas going to have a crack?
0:12.2	He is, you know.
0:13.0	Oh, he fell!
0:15.6	Brilliant!
0:18.8	But jeez!
0:19.7	He's round the goalkeeper!
0:21.1	He's done it!
0:22.7	He's totally 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.
0:35.4	Oh, I say!
0:37.3	It's amazing! It does it tame, and tame, and out, getting him lip! Oh, I say, 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.
0:49.7	Cartoon goalkeepers of the 1900s, defenders who played on one leg for half their career,
0:54.9	newspaper diagrams of Roberto Carlos' one good free kick, skulls of Manchester, the midfielder
1:00.4	who defined both an entire role and sparked the most boring football debate on the internet
1:04.6	forever, the token bloke who was good on a computer game when you were 15, a man with an
1:09.3	8,000-word Wikipedia page, and the
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