The Sunday League XI
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker celebrate the return of grassroots football by taking a voyage through the classic Sunday League lineup, an XI of precious goalkeepers, dutiful right-backs, reluctant left-backs, chatty centre-halves, spherical but untouchable midfield playmakers and The Big Man Up Front.
They also examine the anatomy of every half-time Sunday League team talk ever, why the words "All day!" can ruin an entire weekend, and the most important skill of all: getting yourself a lift home afterwards.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:03.5 | I'm sorry, you can sit there and look and play with all your silly machines as much as you like. |
| 0:08.7 | Is gas going to have a crack? |
| 0:10.4 | He is, you know. |
| 0:11.3 | Oh, he's there. |
| 0:13.9 | Brilliant. |
| 0:17.1 | He's round the goalkeeper. |
| 0:19.7 | He's done it. |
| 0:21.0 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:23.0 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd, and Kung Fu kicked a supporter who was eyewit without a shadow of an out giving him lip. |
| 0:33.7 | Oh, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:36.7 | It does it tame, and tame, and tame again. It does it tame and tame and tame again. |
| 0:39.7 | Frank of the music, charger glass. |
| 0:43.6 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:47.7 | The dearth of adult goalkeepers, the semi-willing left backs, the spherical midfield |
| 0:53.1 | playmakers, the marathon running right-wingers, |
| 0:56.0 | the emergency big men up top, the secret social politics of warm-ups, |
| 1:00.4 | the psychological impact of halftime team talks, and the viral phenomenon that is Gary Goals. |
| 1:06.3 | Brought to your ears by The Athletic, this is Football Cliqueshays and the Sunday League 11. |
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| 1:21.8 | Enjoy great analysis and in-depth features from the very best football writers around, |
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