Unexpected centre-backs in Frasier and a scandalous football TV quiz question
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by David Walker and Charlie Eccleshare for the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda: a Premier League centre-back namechecked on Frasier 29 years ago, what scorelines qualify as "a rout", a Match of the Day commentator responds to our scepticism over his description of a header, North Korean football journalism and a scandalous football-related question on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Meanwhile, the panel check in on an April 2022 prediction from Richard Keys about Erik ten Hag.
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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. |
| 0:10.0 | Is Gas going to have a crack? |
| 0:12.0 | He is, you know. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh, he's there! |
| 0:14.0 | Brilliant! |
| 0:17.0 | But gee! |
| 0:19.0 | He's round the goalkeeper! |
| 0:21.1 | He's done it! |
| 0:22.6 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:24.6 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd and Kung Fu kicked a supporter who was eyewit without a shadow of and out giving him lip. |
| 0:35.6 | Oh I say! |
| 0:36.6 | It's amazing. |
| 0:38.4 | It does it tame and tame and tame again. |
| 0:41.3 | crank up the music. |
| 0:43.5 | Charge a glass. |
| 0:45.3 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:49.3 | The Rolls Royce of Boilers. |
| 0:51.7 | A rare venture into Ray Hudson's world. |
| 0:54.0 | The first and last edition |
| 0:55.6 | of the Gary Weaver Challenge. Premier League centrebacks being name-checked on Frazier |
| 0:59.8 | 29 years before they arrived, a match of the day commentator bites back at the cliché's pod. |
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