The Pure International Football XI
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, James Maw and Michael Cox warm up for the Euros by selecting a team of players who are most disproportionately known for their international exploits, from Mexican goalkeepers to 100-cap right-backs, a controversial Croatian, cult playmakers, an Englishman who got caught in a tug-of-war before we even knew him, World Cup goal machines...and David Healy.
They also discuss a worrying new case of football nicknaming and run some candidates for the Everton job through a sophisticated Athletic Long-Read Headline Generator to examine their long-term prospects.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | 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? |
| 0:11.7 | He is, you know. |
| 0:12.5 | Oh, he's there. |
| 0:15.2 | Brilliant. |
| 0:18.4 | He's round the goalkeeper. |
| 0:21.7 | He's done it. Absolutely! He's done it! |
| 0:23.9 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:30.0 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd, and Kung Fu kicked. |
| 0:34.6 | A supporter who was eyewit without a shadow of an out giving him lip. |
| 0:36.1 | Oh, I say! |
| 0:37.7 | It's amazing! It does it tame, and tame, and him lip! Oh, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:40.8 | It does it tame, and tame, and tame again. |
| 0:44.2 | Frank up the music! Chargerglass! |
| 0:48.3 | This nation is going to dance all night! |
| 0:52.5 | Mexican goalkeepers, 100-cap right-backs, |
| 0:56.5 | a controversial Croatian, cult playmakers, international tugs of war, World Cup goal machines and David Healy. |
| 1:00.6 | Brought to your ears by The Athletic, this is football clichés and the pure international |
| 1:06.0 | football 11. |
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