The Pure Serie A XI
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by James Horncastle and Michael Cox to compile the most representative lineup of players from the last 30 years of Italian football's technical quirks, huge egos and curious career paths.
Their journey takes them from an early goalkeeping dilemma to an ancient but granite-reinforced back three, the inevitable Thomas Helveg, a textbook selection at left wing-back, an imported No 10 who stayed so long he essentially became Italian, a late-blooming domestic goal machine, an impish strike partner from the Gazetta golden era...and one fabled taskmaster to drill them all into a winning unit.
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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, 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 of the music, charge a glass. |
| 0:45.3 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:49.0 | A dependable goalkeeper with a cool nickname, |
| 0:51.8 | or just one who can eat an entire pizza in one go |
| 0:54.0 | by folding |
| 0:54.5 | it up and shoving it in his mouth. A back three excavated from a quarry with a combined |
| 0:58.9 | age of more than 110, the inevitable Thomas Helvegg, a left wingback called the Little |
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