The Pure Europa League XI
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, James Maw and Jack Pitt-Brooke languish in the second tier of European football to establish the most Europa League lineup possible: from diminutive Iberian playmakers to Brazilians with one name and a squad number between 80-99, via a lengthy dispute over the merits of Victor Moses.
Led out, naturally, by Unai Emery, these are the ultimate Thursday-nighters.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:03.7 | I'm sorry, you can sit there and look and play with all your silly machines as much as you like. |
| 0:08.9 | Is gas going to have a crack? |
| 0:10.6 | He is, you know. |
| 0:11.5 | Oh, he's there! |
| 0:14.1 | Brilliant! |
| 0:17.3 | He's round the goalkeeper! |
| 0:19.6 | He's done it! |
| 0:22.6 | Absolutely incredible! He launched himself six feet into the crowd and Kung Fu kicked a supporter who was Iwit without a shadow of an out giving him lip. |
| 0:33.6 | Oh I say, it's amazing! |
| 0:36.6 | It does it tame and tame and tame again. |
| 0:39.9 | Frank up the music, charge a glass. |
| 0:43.8 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:48.2 | Mad cap, but somehow still oddly reliable goalkeepers, |
| 0:51.7 | towering bald centrebacks, the Victor Moses conundrum, |
| 0:55.4 | 11 Everbenegas, a randomly selected mononymous character from Guess Who, |
| 1:00.5 | Hancock coursing through the veins of Kevin Gamero, and of course, Unai Emory. |
| 1:05.6 | Brought to your ears by The Athletic, this is football clichés and the pure Europa League 11. |
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