The Pure Team GB Olympic XI
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, James Maw and debutant Ajay Rose mark 10 years since Team GB cobbled together a men's football team for London 2012, one of the most curious one-offs in modern football history, by asking: what would that team look like today?
Mark Noble or no Mark Noble? What other Olympic sport should someone called "James Ward-Prowse" be competing in? And which manager would lead this XI in 2022?
Meanwhile, the Adjudication Panel revive the age-old debate of whether an own goal can "nestle" and enjoy the latest commentary highlight of Euro 2022.
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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. |
| 0:10.7 | Is gas going to have a crack? |
| 0:12.4 | He is, you know. |
| 0:13.2 | Oh, he's there! |
| 0:16.0 | Brilliant! |
| 0:19.1 | He's round the goalkeeper, he's done it! |
| 0:23.1 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:25.0 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd, and Kung Fu kicked a supporter who was |
| 0:32.7 | without a shadow of an out giving him lip. |
| 0:35.7 | Oh, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:38.7 | It does it tame, and tame, and tame again. |
| 0:41.7 | Crank up the music. |
| 0:43.8 | Charge a glass. |
| 0:45.6 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:50.0 | To celebrate the 10th anniversary of an actually quite forgettable curiosity of modern British football history, we're bringing it back. |
| 0:57.4 | Mark Noble or no Mark Noble? |
| 0:59.5 | What other Olympic sport would be competed in by someone called James Ward Prouse? |
| 1:03.6 | Would Gareth Bale be asked? |
| 1:05.2 | And which Olympic spirited manager would lead them all? |
| 1:07.9 | Brought to your ears by the Athletic. |
| 1:09.8 | This is football clichés and the pure Team G.B Olympic 11. |
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