Watching football at the pub and the neverending joy of Ally McCoist

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The Athletic

Soccer,, Sports

4.8 • 538 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, David Walker and Nick Miller assemble for another Adjudication Panel. On the agenda: Ally McCoist's international co-commentary masterclass, Steve Bruce's inevitable next career step and a worrying new Italian offside experiment.

Meanwhile, the panel examine the practical and psychological challenges of a very specific form of football consumption: watching a game at the pub.

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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.
0:10.8	Is gas going to have a crack?
0:12.8	He is, you know.
0:13.6	Oh, he's there!
0:16.3	Brilliant!
0:19.5	He's round the goalkeeper.
0:22.0	He's done it.
0:23.4	Absolutely incredible.
0:25.4	He launched himself six feet into the crowd and Kung Fu kicked a supporter who was
0:33.1	IWit without a shadow of an out giving him lip.
0:36.0	Oh, I say, it's amazing.
0:39.1	It does it tame and tame and tame again.
0:42.1	Frank of the music, charge a glass.
0:46.0	This nation is going to dance all night.
0:50.0	Overhearing factually incorrect footballing statements,
0:53.3	optimum neck angles,
0:54.9	unofficial seat reservation politics,
0:57.1	the unique frustration of watching a member of bar staff scrolling through the available channels,
1:01.6	how to style out a minute's silence, the poison chalice of projector screens,
1:05.7	and the general psychological torture of watching a game in a pub.
1:09.8	Brought to your ears by The Athletic.
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