In short
Football Clichés episode mixes football news, language/phrasing debates, listener clips, and a “Keys and Grey Corner” segment.
Guests
Adam Hurry hosts with an “Adjudication Panel” of David Walker and Nick Miller. No other guests appear; the rest are listener submissions and referenced media clips.
Topic
England/World Cup build-up (Ben White hero-to-villain at Wembley vs Uruguay; England World Cup base in Kansas City at £200/night Inn at Meadowbrook; basketball court plans), non-league and fan audio (“please” before a Wealdstone late winner), David Moyes credit on Five Lives, and FIFA 2026 “series” friendlies (Aruba vs Macau vs Tanzania vs Liechtenstein; Tanzania beat Macau 6-0; Tanzania edged Liechtenstein 1-0; Aruba beat Liechtenstein 4-1).
Key claims
“Head-to-head” vs “toe-to-toe” is debated (toe-to-toe = active challenge; head-to-head = broader matchup/records). Wikipedia language should avoid “consigned” as editorializing. Richard Keys’s Telegraph interview is framed as a “next chapter” and “third and final act,” with notable “top five moments” including his “sumptuous white sofa” intro and his “twat”/Laura Woods backlash discussion.
Notable examples
Wembley booing after Ben White’s penalty; the “You absolute taxi” Archie Gray anecdote; the scripted Sherlock & Co free-kick build-up (91 seconds).
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOSunday League Highlights
2:50 to 4:12
Discussion about David Walker's Sunday League experience and the challenges of managing a team.
“I'm Adam Hurry, this is the Adjudication Panel.”
England's Performance Analysis
4:12 to 7:08
Analysis of Ben White's performance in the England vs. Uruguay match.
England's World Cup Preparations
7:08 to 10:46
Discussion about England's World Cup base and the plans for player entertainment.
“We've been nominated for Podcast of the Year Always On category at the Sports Journalism Awards 2025.”
Wealdstone's Dramatic Winner
10:46 to 13:20
A look at a memorable moment involving Wealdstone's last-minute goal.
“Mason Mount was sort of very much at the core of the basketball activity.”
David Moyes' Management Recognition
13:20 to 14:00
Discussion on David Moyes' managerial achievements and the perception of his work.
“Next up, this came from Mike Ward and 70-yard Diag.”
Moyes and Brazilian Manager Names
14:00 to 17:30
A discussion on the naming conventions for Brazilian managers and their legacy.
“I mean, there are two strands to this, Nick.”
International Breaks and Creative Media
17:30 to 21:00
Exploring the media's output during international breaks and unique football stories.
“Brandon Flowers put up a huge photo of Bobby Moore lifting the World Cup when they played Wembley and paid a moving tribute.”
FIFA Series and the Rwanda B Tournament
21:00 to 25:00
An overview of the FIFA series, highlighting the strange Rwanda B tournament.
“But there's no indication on the Wikipedia page that it is in any way...”
Football Terminology: Head-to-Head vs. Toe-to-Toe
25:00 to 28:00
A debate on the usage of 'head-to-head' versus 'toe-to-toe' in football contexts.
“But I'd be interested to see if you could sort of progress that to toe to toe records.”
Upcoming Episode: Extinct 11
29:16 to 30:19
Discover the concept of the upcoming themed episode on extinct footballers.
“I think the pitfall we could fall into is we just end up with a team full of like slightly overweight mavericks.”
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Shirts Seen at Butlins
30:19 to 33:13
A humorous discussion on the variety of football shirts observed at Butlins.
“Some of those Japan, there's a kind of cherry blossom one from a couple of years ago that's beautiful.”
Biggleswade Football Scene
33:13 to 35:25
An exploration of football teams in Biggleswade and their unique situation.
“Biggles-Wage can't have three teams in the same division.”
Commentary Quality Analysis
35:25 to 39:40
A critique of the quality of football commentary in a dramatized episode.
“Maybe there was a kind of broader dramatic narrative purpose to it all.”
WSL League Table Discussion
41:30 to 42:00
Discussion on the WSL league table and its clinical language on Wikipedia.
“Quaker's been serving up fiber since 1877 with over 100 great tasting, good source of fiber options to choose from.”
Clinical Language in Football Reporting
42:00 to 43:30
Explore the clinical language used in football Wikipedia entries and its implications.
“One of the things we've always noted about football on Wikipedia, Nick, is it's really clinical language for stuff.”
Richard Keyes Interview Overview
43:30 to 46:20
Discuss the implications of Richard Keyes's interview and its impact on his public persona.
“I mean, honestly, when this popped up on a quiet Sunday morning and an international break, Dave, it felt too good to be true.”
Key Moments from Keyes's Interview
46:20 to 51:20
Analyze key moments from Richard Keyes's interview and their significance.
“There is a sumptuous white sofa beside the bay window, immaculate white paving across the back garden, even a giant photograph of the white flowers displayed at his wedding to Lucy.”
Reflections on Keyes's Christmas Day
51:20 to 55:40
Reflect on Keyes's recounting of his best Christmas and its implications for his life.
“Also in this section, seeking to restore some levity to the situation, he jokes that he has been struggling to decide who to ask for advice.”
Reflections on Keezy's Simplicity
56:04 to 56:33
The hosts discuss Keezy's enjoyment of simple pleasures and their thoughts on his lifestyle.
Discussion on Player Potential
57:35 to 58:20
The hosts analyze a player's potential resurgence at Manchester City.
“I love the fact that he's chosen that moment to go, do you know what, now I'm going to do it.”
Transcript
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1:59I'm getting him lip. Oh, I say. It's amazing. He does it tame and tame and tame again. Crank up the music. Charge a glass. This nation is going to dance all night. Sunday league managers kicking every ball. Ben White's surreal Wembley evening. David Moyes' genuinely unhelpful Brazilian equivalent. Num's absolute taxis. Head-to-head goes head-to-head with toe-to-toe. The football shirts of Butlins. Three Biggles Wades Jeremy, that's insane. Eight out of ten football commentary on Sherlock & Co. And sumptuous white sofas, adult toddlers and a tin of tuna. The top five moments from that Richard Keyes interview.
2:40Brought to your ears by Goalhanger Podcasts, this is Football Clichés.
2:49Hello everyone and welcome to Football Clichés. I'm Adam Hurry, this is the Adjudication Panel. Joining me first of all is David Walker. How are you doing? I'm very good. How are you? Yeah, good, thanks. Alongside you, Nick Miller, how are things? Things are good. Excellent. Well done. You did it. Stole Dave's line. Dave, fascinating weekend in your Sunday League managerial tenure for Ribblesdale Rovers. They're chasing a late equaliser here against Deportivo La Calruna in the Chipotle UK Chairman's Cup. And I can almost feel you. I can hear you kicking every ball at this moment.
3:28come on come on the controlled ecstasy there is glorious i loved it i was a bit conscious i it was one of those moments i mean it was the last it was literally the last uh kick of the game and we had a throw in and we've got we've got a guy who takes a really good long throw so i've i was filming it on my phone just in case but as it went in i think if i wasn't filming it i would have gone more mad than that but i didn't want to go too mad because i was filming it yeah yeah i suppose that must be hard for like professional managers on the touchline knowing they're being filmed from every angle are you a um a phantom header it was a shot that went in but there was a header involved there are you a kind of i would say no but i think maybe i am maybe i don't realize i'm doing it there was something that i did yesterday and as i was doing it i thought oh this could be good for a future live show actually this is this is an involuntary movement that I've just realized I'm doing see if you can work it out from how I'm describing it or describe what you think the movement would be from from this scenario so you're watching your team you're on the touchline and something happens like one of your players like dives in for a challenge in a dangerous area maybe they're about like in danger of giving away a penalty or loses possession in a really dangerous area so the worst thing hasn't necessarily happened yet but it's a bad moment you see what i mean you've not conceded a goal here but you've you've fucked up and you're in you're in a bit of trouble what would your body do in that scenario for me it would be some sort of in the actual moment of the penalty near concession i feel like i'll be in a sort of state of sort of self-preservation sort of going a bit sort of hunched up and going ah like you're about to be run over or something raise your arm up as if as if being attacked by a wolf or something yeah something like that this is ridiculous podcasting right but i'm gonna do it on camera now and see if you see if you can identify with this the backward stretch yeah okay forward right yeah it wouldn't necessarily pin it to that moment but yeah so i weirdly i did have that in my mind when you first started talking about this so it has come full circle for my logical brain at least yes yes the lean back as if to take it all in perhaps wow okay great great podcasting indeed Nick you took in Switzerland 3 Germany 4 this week where were you the 1954 World Cup what's going on it was great fun I did mess up by not going to it was in Basel and there was that bit in Basel where don't you can stand in three countries but there's a bit where Switzerland Germany and France all kind of convene right so yeah it was a very convivial atmosphere geographically fascinating how are both how are they both shaping up for the World Cup oh well you know it was a friendly so it was completely meaningless in that respect.
6:13Speaking of friendliness, thank you for all your correspondence listeners on the Susie Dent episode last week. I'm so glad that you enjoyed it. It was a real advert day for the non-MHD guest episode format. I think she really flourished at not being constrained by her footballing fascinations and irritations, I think. Why would you constrain someone like Susie Dent with that sort of format? Just let her flourish. Let her roam. Exactly. Brilliant. And And as dozens of you pointed out over the last few days, the portmanteau for goal contributions that was staring us in the face the whole time was not glissist.
6:46It wasn't gussists. It was arseholes. Of course. I don't like it. 24 arseholes this season. I don't like it. Too much for you, is it, Dave? It's against the spirit of the exercise. Yeah, it's not what we're trying to do here. Let's keep this clean, shall we? Well, if you can't stomach that, you're not going to enjoy the last 15 minutes or so of this podcast, I can tell you right now. More great news. We've been nominated for Podcast of the Year Always On category at the Sports Journalism Awards 2025. Bit late for that, but yeah, very honoured to be amongst that sort of company. The Guardian Football Weekly, the Sports Agents et al.
7:27I'm happy to be there to make up the numbers, to be honest, Dave. No pressure on us, I don't think. I suppose, I think I said this on Instagram, I suppose that finding the commentary from Football Italia is journalism. isn't it? Yeah, the height of. Still counts. Still counts. Right, adjudication panel time. Let's start with some very surreal scenes at Wembley for England versus Uruguay on Friday night. The Guardian headline Nick reads, Ben White goes from hero to villain on England return in draw with Uruguay. I think that might be the kind of flattest hero to villain trajectory I've ever seen.
8:00Like, it was a one-inch tap-in at the back post and then he gave away a penalty, which was borderline but probably a penalty. So in terms of hero to villainous in a pre-pre World Cup friendly, I'm not feeling it. Walter's also muddied by the fact that he was being booed. So there's a kind of a villain element thrown at it. I mean, this headline is purely on looking at on-pitch matters. Yeah. But if you're being booed, can you be described as a hero even in those circumstances? It was some great Wembley booing, Dave. The only instance I can ever think of of a player being booed after scoring. and I'm not really invested in the Ben White England story massively.
8:39If he's a good player, I'm kind of happy for him to be in the squad. I don't think he's let his country down or anything like that. But the booing was incredible. Like it was really funny. It was funny, I think. Yeah, strange because Wembley, especially for friendlies, you don't always get a big reaction because it's such a kind of diverse crowd in terms of ages and it's just different from a club atmosphere, right? So I was sort of surprised that it was so widespread. But I think you're right, Nick. Yeah, he's gone from, well, basically he's gone from zero to hero and back to zero again. And maybe not even got to hero status in the middle at all, actually.
9:14No, absolutely not. It's a one-yard finish. Maybe that made him more of a villain. It was almost David Nugent-esque, Nick. He was a net villain, is what I'm saying. Other more regular elements of the England World Cup news cycle, Dave. The England World Cup base has been confirmed. They're going to be staying in Kansas City at the, quote,£200 a night, the Inn at Meadowbrook. Always good to get the per-night rate in for this situation, as if that's going to mean anything for the England squad's experience. I think, does that not seem a bit cheap for the England team? It does a bit. Yeah, it doesn't feel quite luxury enough to me.
9:54You want mid-hundreds, don't you, Nick, for England's base? Has there been some explanation first? I think Tuchel was speaking about the requirements, and this just happened to be the place that they chose. So, you know, I don't think it's part of some economy drive. Yeah, they're all flying economy as well. There's a strict limit on daily food expenses. But yeah, Dave, they deliberately chose this place because it was boutique and it wasn't going to be sort of shared with anybody else. And, you know, they were going to sort of have to just navigate this huge place. But same old story. The Football Association are already planning to erect a basketball court to keep the players entertained.
10:29so thank god thank god they're going to be entertained because it's the biggest problem of the world cup basketball's a funny choice isn't it I know they've done a lot of darts in previous camps but yeah I would have thought maybe like paddle or something but yeah fair play if they're going to shoot some hoops in their downtime good luck to them yeah there's going to be some tutting from people who think that basketball might be a bit too dangerous because there could be some injury I mean it's a Harry Kane goes over on his ankle story waiting to happen isn't it yeah I'm sure they were shooting hoops at Euro 2024 it must have been before 2024 because Mason Mount was involved.
11:02Mason Mount was sort of very much at the core of the basketball activity. So perhaps it was either the World Cup before that or the Euros before that. But yeah, I definitely remember England having a basketball penchant. Anyway, more to come on England's World Cup base, I imagine. Let's move on. Bobby Brooking, a West Ham fan you'll be stunned to discover, writes in and sent me this clip. It's seconds before Wealdstone score their 94th minute winner against Marine to send them to Wembley in the FA trophy one lad can be heard willing the ball into the net during the tiny moment of silence it's absolute perfection listen very closely after the iconic go on
11:46nick we're so used to the go on like we hear it all the time but um i love the please i really empathise with the please. I feel like I would beg that much for a goal in that situation. Oh yeah, big time. I need this kind of thing. There was also, quite interesting, there was please and then there was please, the shot, it's like a lob over the goalkeeper and there seemed to be like a little noise between the please and the ball actually going in and everyone going mental as well. Wow, I didn't hear that. Yeah, it was kind of, it was please and then there was a kind of, oh, and then it went in and everyone went nuts.
12:22That was really enjoyable. I feel like there are only certain goal-scoring circumstances, Dave, where you could ask, please, for your potential goal-scoring. They're kind of one-on-one-y situations where you need them to finish it. Yeah, but this wasn't quite that. I don't know what you mean. Normally, I would think that when you've got a period of time to anticipate a finish, yeah, it's a one-on-one, I don't know, maybe it's even the goalkeeper's up the other end of the pitch and you're trying to break away like Downman did the other day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's quite pleasing. But like this was what looked like a sort of straight long ball down the middle.
12:57It's bounced. The defenders, the defence haven't cleared it. So it's bounced and the strikers managed to get in and then lob it over the keeper from sort of the edge of the area. But there was that perfect moment after the bounce, just before the finish, where the fan has pleaded for the goal. Very nice timing. It was last minute, so it made sense. Yeah, it's a good measure of the XG, I think, just in verbal terms. I really enjoyed that. Next up, this came from Mike Ward and 70-yard Diag. Here is Shea Given on Five Lives Monday Night Club on the radical topic of David Moyes not getting enough credit for what he's done.
13:35Ever no challenging for, you would arguably say Europa League. I mean, not to check me. The league's too big of an ask, in my opinion, for them. But if they got into European football, it would be just another phenomenal job. It's just the next part of the building process. Yeah, but I don't know if it's just Moyes' name or something is not that attractive. If Moyes' oldinho or something, or we can change his name maybe or something. But everywhere he goes, he improves the team. He gets results. You know, he's again so steady. I think he is getting credit now. Is he? I don't know. I mean, there are two strands to this, Nick.
14:06Obviously, the knackered old concept of David Noy is not getting enough credit. Maybe he isn't getting the exact amount of credit he deserves. But Moyes' oldinho for a manager. What managers out there have the ino? sort of suffix you know there must be a whole generation of players who whose name still persists and have moved on into management but i still don't think that's the go-to construction is it not for the brazilian player turned manager no you're looking for the dino rather than the aren't you you know so marino wouldn't count but yeah there was also it's just enormously enjoyable you could see the moment that chapa's soul left his body when he when he was just he was just leaning on one hand talking into the microphone going oh okay yeah further evidence I remain convinced that Chappas would got a good MHD in him if we could ever tie him down to do it but surely yeah you're right it's not the right construction there aren't any famous Brazilian managers with that why aren't they coming through they must be coming through by now but they've had 30 years surely so the Inos of this world maybe the sort of you know the little one kind of translation maybe undermines their I guess coaching kudos I don't know could he have gone Moiseola yeah Moiseola would have been good yeah you've got to pin it to something but Moise Aldino is insane absolutely insane I'll never tire of these ever on the idea that the diminutive Eno thing because the opposite of that is Dow have we had any of those Scolari was Philippao but that was a kind of nickname thing yeah big Philip big Phil but yeah have there been any managers I don't think that I can't really think of any off the top of my head Does lend itself more, doesn't it?
15:47So yeah, Moyzow would have been good, although maybe not, wouldn't have come quite across superbly on Five Live. Who knows? Yeah, International Break does lend a sort of element of freedom to media outlets today to produce some long reads on some subjects that have been given time to kind of percolate. Shoddy Workmanship and Balearic Priest sent in some great examples from the BBC and The Guardian. Dirt pitches, dodging dogs and choosing Chelsea, the making of Esteval. Volcano's Connection and Disrespect The Making of Hal Grimson And 7th tier players A new app and togetherness Inside New Caledonia's unlikely World Cup tilt Great examples The Estaval one's probably been sitting in the drafts for a while, hasn't it?
16:29The last one, the New Caledonia one's a bit like a new app What's the old app? What are you on about? There's not enough context there, is there? It's just updated in the app store That's what it suggests, isn't it? togetherness that is rubbish that is rubbish come on I do quite like tilt though in an international concept because you don't it's not that's a that's a domestic thing usually isn't it title tilt yeah I do like a tilt I don't I don't know how again one for Susie Dent maybe but how has tilt become are you tilting towards the challenge is that what it is I don't know I'll have to look into it one of my favourite tweets of the football calendar once a year Henry Winter will take it upon himself to confirm who has been booked to play the Champions League final kick-off show.
17:19Last year it was Linkin Park. This year, he says, the Killers are to play the Champions League final kick-off show at Puskas Arena on May 30th. Somebody told me, etc, etc. Good choice. The Killers know how to put on a show in a stadium. They also know the power of football. Brandon Flowers put up a huge photo of Bobby Moore lifting the World Cup when they played Wembley and paid a moving tribute. Band will enhance the atmosphere, provided they're off in time to allow fans to provide the true soundtrack to kick off in Budapest. It's an amazing skill, Henry Winter has, Nick, to essentially apply the same format of tweets to everything he talks about.
17:50This could be him talking about the inclusion of a player in England's squad, like a late call-up. He'll be good around the dressing room. What a solid choice he'll be. It's amazing. Could be Spurs announcing a new manager. Yeah. The Linkin Park one was lent an air of absurdity because you couldn't imagine Henry Winter going to see Linkin Park. I can imagine him going to see The Killers, maybe with one of his kids or something. But extraordinary repeatable format. The imagery of Brandon Flowers putting up a huge photo of Bobby Moore is quite nice, as if he's brought it with him. And it's like a poster that he's stuck to the back of the stage or something.
18:29That bit is pure winter, by the way. His life is just dictated by respect by numbers. It's so good. Just any classy touches that he can detect in someone's behaviour and putting up a picture of Bobby Moore lifting the World Cup at Wembley. And that's all it takes as far as he's concerned. Let's stick to international football. Over the years, Nick, I've always been fascinated by the really incongruous pairings for international friendlies. And I got a lot of messages about some more this time around. But no, these weren't friendlies. These were part of the 2026 FIFA series, which is the second incarnation of this little-known tournament, which is, the whole thing is devised to give smaller nations a concept of tournament football against teams from other confederations, which is obviously a really healthy thing like a really good idea i hope there's no skullduggery behind it but on the face of it looks really really like healthy thing to do they're split up into completely random separate kind of um mini series around the world they don't all come together for a final they just play their own way and my favorite one of these series is rwanda b so there's two in rwanda this is the b one and it's aruba macao tanzania and lichtenstein unreal it's like it's like the sweeper podcast have been given permission to create their own people tournament it's such an incredible snapshot of the whole thing rwanda bees are too obscure even for them isn't it i mean jesus christ they haven't really given it a very sexy name have they rwanda b uh but rwanda's rwanda were just hosting it they're not even involved in this little mini tournament day which is incredible you can host it but you're not in it definitely not they're not they failed to qualify for their own their own tournament maybe they're in rwanda ray you have to assume that they were um i'm not gonna bother looking at it but yeah so yeah so straight into the semi-finals Aruba thrashed Macau 4-1 Tanzania just edged out by Lichtenstein the double landlocked aces 1-0 and then in the final Aruba absolutely handing it to Lichtenstein 4-1 actually I don't know what's more likely so they've won 4-1 we've got a screenshot here of the Wikipedia page is it more surprising that two of their players have Wikipedia pages or the two don't I don't know the fact that there's a third place playoff as well poor old Macau having to go and get thrashed 6-0 by Tanzania at the Kigali Pelé Stadium in Kigali so these FIFA series things are these like tiered then because there is one going on in New Zealand at the moment where Cape Verde are playing and obviously Cape Verde and New Zealand are at the World Cup they must be because China, Australia, Cameroon and Curacao are all in one series which looks a little bit more elite level.
21:02But there's no indication on the Wikipedia page that it is in any way... Oh, no, it is. It's done by FIFA rankings. Of course it is. So, yeah. So, yeah. And, yeah, I can confirm Rwanda were involved in Rwanda, eh? But the whole thing is giving kids five a side tournament day. Going off to get a burger in between games and hoping it doesn't give you indigestion. Was that Cape Verde tournament your first choice for this international break, Nick? Representations were made, but unfortunately, being sent to New Zealand wasn't quite... You could go to Switzerland instead. Right. Next up, Sam. Madge Wild writes in next, Nick, and says, Recently at Spurs versus Atletico, shortly after Archie Gray had sat one of the Atletico players down with a beautiful bit of dexterity, the bloke sitting next to me shouted, Archie Gray, you absolute taxi!
21:44Have no real idea what he meant by that, but loved it all the same. What a development for the absoluting. But he's not the taxi in this situation, is he? But neither is the opponent. The opponent's being given, sent away in a taxi, right? Yeah, the taxi's an outside agent to this. The taxi is the kind of vehicle, well, for ridicule. He's the dispatcher, if anything. Taxi for Micon. Yeah. The famous example. He's the guy that sends the taxis on their way, you know, in a little booth with the radio. So he's the absolute taxi dispatcher. But you can see how the shorthand has worked here, Dave. But a great deployment of absolute.
22:19I would love to hear this. I'd love to have heard this in the wild to see the precise intonation. I think you got it pretty much put on there. You absolute taxi. You can only guess. But also, that could be used as... Oh, he's a bit of a taxi, isn't he? I mean, I like him, but he's a bit of a taxi. Sort of an unglamorous vehicle. Big, you know, a bit of a black cab, isn't he? Not an Uber X. It's like the opposite of a Rolls Royce. It'll get you from A to B. Always slightly, a bit slow, a bit late on the scene kind of thing. But he's done the knowledge. Yeah. Done all his badges. So, yeah, maybe Archie Gray is about the right level for this.
22:58Maybe it does work after all, but maybe not this particular context. Play any position. It'll get you there any way you want. That's true, yeah. Next up, Geoff Hembury writes an interesting question, Dave. Any thoughts on when to use head-to-head versus toe-to-toe in a football context? Can managers go toe-to-toe or is it always head-to-head? I'm thinking that players go toe-to-toe and managers go head-to-head. But if you have two top players on opposing sides, it feels like both could work. Do these only happen in certain areas of the pitch? Midfielders can go toe-to-toe and head-to-head, but it feels like defenders and keepers are too far away from each other for that to work but see but it does seem to work with opposing strikers i mean getting more surreal as it goes on there dave but i think the crucial difference between head-to-head and toe-to-toe is head-to-head is a really mundane thing it's just two teams or players going against each other without any sort of extra contact they just happen to be playing each other they're going head-to-head if they're evenly matched that's ideal toe-to-toe is a real challenge toe-to-toe is when you're taking someone on actively and saying go on son beat me that's toe-to-toe isn't it yes head-to-head is is a wider concept head-to-head is can be a statistical look at the record between the two sides it can be a deciding factor in group stages now in in tournaments it's a general concept these two set to go head-to-head on super sunday etc whereas yeah toe-to-toe is more of an active thing and it It can also be a bit like, I don't know, if like a smaller team in the FA Cup playing a big team.
24:26You know what? They went toe-to-toe with him out there today. Spot on. Absolutely spot on. So it does sort of emphasise the challenge aspect of it, Nick. But I do think toe-to-toe works better with individual players. Yeah, absolutely. He could go toe-to-toe with anyone in Europe at the moment, but you wouldn't say head-to-head necessarily. This may be just too literal interpretation, but toe-to-toe is from boxing, isn't it? So it kind of therefore lends itself to kind of individual battles. To answer the final question, Dave, can a goalkeeper go toe to toe with an opposite goalkeeper? No. But head to head would be OK.
24:59But yeah, so yeah, you can get head to head records, Nick. But I'd be interested to see if you could sort of progress that to toe to toe records. In a certain set of circumstances, did they beat them when they were really up against it? So yeah, I'd like to see a toe to toe record between, I don't know, Macau and Aruba perhaps. Well, that's it for part one. We'll be back very shortly.
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26:40Welcome back to Football Clichés. a reminder that you can sign up for Dreamland for just£5.99 a month. You'll get ad-free listening of all our episodes and two episodes a month of Dreamland, our exclusive show. Episode 20 of Dreamland is out now. Football on the radio. Some lovely reactions to that so far. Someone has described it as a love letter, Dave, which is not always going to be the case with Dreamland, so I want people to enjoy it while they can. Yeah, very much so. Very enjoyable episodes put together. There's a lot of clips from the past and the present. If you like football on the radio, you'll definitely like the episode.
27:11I enjoyed listening to it, even though Adam declared that I should belong on some kind of register because I was a 693 man for Radio 5. What's going on here? This must be, I mean, it makes a lot of sense for it to be a geographical thing. I think the further north you go, the more 693 seems to come into play. I've had more correspondence on this and they're all from northerners. So 693 is clearly stronger in the north. I don't know if this is a latitude thing. I don't know what's going on. What about talk sport? Strictly BBC household, the Millers. Fair enough. We were kind of like a very, very unofficial minor version of those people who wouldn't let their kids watch ITV because of the gaudy adverts or something like that.
27:50Talksport was a bit too brash for us. No, I'm on board with that. No problem. It's auntie or nothing in this household. Slightly queasy in there, but that's fine. Also, if you sign up to Dreamland at dreamland.footballcliches.com, you will have access to the new and improved HHG Premium, which is getting better and better and better. Happy Hunting Grounds Premium now has pub mode, where you can challenge your friends. It's got infinite ladder, which is kind of a tantric snakes and ladders quest to get to level 10 glory. And it also has turbo mode, my personal favourite, where you just need to guess the goal scorer.
28:25No season required, and you've got 60 seconds to get as many points as you can. And David Walker setting the absolute pace. 52 points in 60 seconds. 12 correct answers. So you obviously got a harder difficulty level along the way, which is uh but it didn't scare you clearly well that was levels one to ten i think right so that was the full gamut available you should be playing so you get a couple of high ones then it's going to boost your score but i think my record on levels one to three is 39 right i think which was i think i think i've got 19 correct answers in 60 seconds so it does help if you get if you get some canes and some agueros constantly typing in can yeah yeah it will autocomplete for you that does help things but yeah if anyone's getting in the 40s and 50s please screenshot it and send it to me because we can't have Dave leading the leaderboard there must be people out there who can better that Thursday's episode of Football Clichés this week will be the Extinct 11 so if you've got any contributions about the positions roles characters and specific footballing subtypes you just don't see anymore and may well have disappeared forever send them in and we'll shoehorn them in to our latest themed 11 we are as ever looking for nuance here because just a cursory sort of thought about this.
29:38I think the pitfall we could fall into is we just end up with a team full of like slightly overweight mavericks. Yeah, I think your contribution to the WhatsApp was fat strikers. So that's the nuance we're going for, is it? I think we should talk about fat strikers, yeah. But there has to be a bit more to it than just old football versus modern football. Absolutely. Don't be worried about going too niche and too obscure with this. We want some very, very specific types of footballer that seem to have gone out of fashion or perhaps are extinct. I've done a themed 11 for a while, so I'm looking forward to this.
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30:10Right, let's continue the adjudication panel. This came from Jack Jack Attack. He says, I went to Butlins for my sins with the kids for four days, and these were the shirts that I saw. Besiktas, Spurs times four, Fenerbahce, Portugal times two, England times six, Inter Miami, Portugal, Liverpool times two, Al Nasser times two, Arsenal times four, Man United times six, Barcelona times three Man City times two Scotland Aston Villa Real Madrid times two Bayern Launton FC times four that was just the same bloke four times Brazil Norwich Fulham Crystal Palace PSG Japan times three Bournemouth times three Reading and Napoli Dave if the great Jake Farrell were here I feel like this would be a Men Are Class moment I'm amazed that the range and that you've seen that many shirts like Japan whose kids are wearing Japan shirts fair play I know I mean, Japan have some nice shirts in recent years, Nick, so maybe that could be part of it.
31:06They could just be Japanese. They don't know. There is an aesthetics thing here. Some of those Japan, there's a kind of cherry blossom one from a couple of years ago that's beautiful. Heavy Turkish presence there. Obviously, I'm all for that. I'm assuming that it's kids. I guess they could very well be parents wearing shirts as well. Probably are. The Inter-Miami and Al Nasser is a very modern phenomenon. Fascinating. You've seen lots of Al Nasser shirts. I saw a kid in that game that we were playing yesterday. It was in Battersea Park in London. And there was a kid who looked five, six, maybe six.
31:44He was just being drilled in a one-on-one session. And he was wearing an Al Nasser shirt. And he had like Ronaldo-style hair. And he didn't look like he was enjoying it, to be honest. Give him a chance. The little ladders were out and the little cones and the poles and everything. and he was sort of just labouring through this session on a Sunday morning. Yeah, but the Al Nasser thing is definitely, definitely a thing. Launton FC, that's, you know, a bit of local. Yeah, I think it was local to that Butlins, I think. Yeah, yeah, so that made sense. That's good. Jack Jackatec goes on to say, Nick, that by far the weirdest one was a pair of identical twins, both in full kits, one Spurs and one Fenerbahce, in an apparent homage to either Roberto Soldado or Stephen Corker.
32:23Do they fight over those kits? Does one just feel more Turkish? I don't know. As much as anything else, I'm enjoying the image of this guy just kind of disappearing through his phone every five minutes. What are you doing there? Don't worry about it. Just note down some kits. Anthropology. That's what it is. Vital stuff. No one else is doing it. Ipsos Mori out there, are they? Here we go. Right. More niche football content for you now. Gordon B. Thomas on the Reddit, Nick, says, Biggles Wade Town and Biggles Wade FC are both chasing promotion in the Southern League Division I Central. That's non-league step four.
32:58Meanwhile, Biggles-Wage United are in the playoff spots in the Spartan South Midlands League, one tier below, step five. If Town and FC miss out this season and United go up, that would mean three teams from a small town of about 20 ,000 in the same league. Surely that's some sort of record. Biggles-Wage can't have three teams in the same division. That's insane. So which is the one that Gian Balagay's got? That was going to be my question, so I don't know either. I think it's United, or is it Town? United. He's director of football. I mean, what does that involve? Come on. A bit of recruitment.
33:31Just keeping things ticking over. I think my dad was born in Biggleswade. Oh. Potentially. He certainly lived there a bit when he was young on a farm. But anyway, I don't know whether he was a town FC or a United man. I'm not sure. Too late now. God. But if you're born in Biggleswade now, Nick, what are you choosing? How are you going to pledge your allegiance if there's a three-teams in the same division? I mean, I don't know. Who's got the money? Yeah. Who knows? I mean, this is going to be dividing households in Biggleswade. I really want to know if this is dividing households in Biggleswade.
34:04Amazing. Yeah, 20 ,000 people. Definitely worth an athletic long read. Right. Really enjoyed this. I'm glad I kept it for today's episode. This came from Gabriel Blythe House, who was listening to Season 35, Episode 1 of our goal-hanger stablemate, Sherlock and Co. The episode is called The Missing Three-Quarter, in which a top-flight Brazilian footballer goes missing. Now, the episode begins with some scene-setting football commentary, and even amid the current moral panic about how long teams are taking with their set pieces, I think this might be the longest build-up to a free kick in football history.
34:36Well, what a potential moment we have here. You know it's a tempting position for any of these takers. Eyeing it up, 35 yards out. no mean things but on this stage on this occasion ambitions will always run high Gustavo stands over it Hugo Alberto stands over it even the big man Luis de Lima is looking at it as is that man right there Godfrey that's the one for me Peter that's the horse I'd be backing in this one Godfrey well it would seem the Brazilian head coach agrees with you Billy Richards as a first time for everything and you can see Godfrey there ushering his teammates away claiming it for himself yeah get away says this one's mine off you get get on with it ref what is his trade in England of course on the elite stage but Peter this is the stage this is the stage you want to do it on he certainly is godfrey surveys the task ahead of him bloody hell the task that would favor him as a left footer it would still have to be something special this is godfrey
36:1191 seconds that took dave that is ridiculous that is so long actually on the on the football on the radio dreamland episode we played a clip of alan green commentating on liverpool man united in the 90s and i actually had to edit it down because there was a similarly long wait for dennis erwin to take the free kick there must have been an injury or something but that's so long because the difference being that was actually a real life example and alan green couldn't do anything about it this is a scripted drama they don't need to have it that long i know it wasn't really adding anything to the storyline it was just constant constant um sort of scene setting as you know making sure that we all knew that it was a football game nick i think there's a i would say that at a conservative estimate there's probably about three elements too many in that set piece build-up what would you say yeah the interesting thing there is that there were enough elements to it which is yes either whoever wrote the script or was doing the voiceover knows about like football the nuances of football broadcasting like there was a there was a little bit of that kind of it'll be first time for that banter in there as well.
37:11But why? Why did it go on for so long? What was the purpose of that? Maybe there was a kind of broader dramatic narrative purpose to it all. Didn't say there was any player getting treatment. There wasn't VAR. It was just surveying the task for about 90 seconds. Didn't really seem to serve any further purpose than that. But, I mean, despite my incredulity at how long it took, Dave, I was pleasantly surprised by the kind of accuracy of its depiction of a commentator and co-commentator co-comments were a little bit caricature if i had to pick holes in it but yeah overall felt like a really good stab at the whole thing compared to what we've seen in previous sort of dramatizations they need charlie to do the co-commentator don't they really and charlie would love that gig as well wouldn't he he really would incidentally in this episode gary lineker and alan shearer pop up there's a kind of meta situation where someone's recording a podcast with them and then they're asking about the case it's all very strange and their acting is about what you'd imagine it would be anyway um i want to linger on the second clip on the quality of the commentator and commentator here is their reaction to the goal a bullet of brazilian brilliance and listen to this place bully it's carnival time peter what a strike of the ball that is The keeper is never getting anywhere near it.
38:38Watch this. There he is. Right at the start of it. Barking at Di Lima. At Hugo Alberto. Back off lads. This one's mine. And boy oh boy did he make it his. Adulation there from his teammates. That he shunned only moments ago. For that chance. To take that chance. Listen Peter I played with this lad. I can't think of the get. And he'd say to us all the time in these positions, he'd say, get out of it. This one's mine. I've got the ones on the left foot. You get yourselves in the box for my scratch. Get away. That's what he'd say to us, Peter. I mean, he did speak a word of English at the time, but he said it with his eyes.
39:19He said it with his body language. And he said it tonight in some style, isn't he? If you didn't know it already, Godfrey is a special challenge. not just on these native shores not just in england but now on the world stage where to now for this exceptional young man i love this dave and there's a there's a moment halfway through that that is so echo share it's unbelievable yeah it's so good that i didn't speak a word of english at the time is could could have come from charlie's act from our live show for sure uh very nice it's the intonation is good the sky sports swoosh did you hear it swoosh was good so good what a touch the drury and alliteration at the start there yeah very good one and a half thumbs up from me on this one and that is a rare accolade for some pretend football commentary so fair play to goal hanger well done well done to everybody involved in shellac and co um just please dave that we got to praise it and didn't have to slag it off we would have done it i promise
40:44We'll see you next time.
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42:08Right, moving on. One of the things we've always noted about football on Wikipedia, Nick, is it's really clinical language for stuff. It tends to be really matter-of-fact, not too opinionated, gives you a flavour of the quality or the level of achievement of somebody, but never really too judgmental. Here, in a situation where I think the language needs to be even more clinical than usual is the WSL League table. Manchester City are top with Manchester United second and they as the notation signifies are on course for qualification for the Champions League league phase for next season. Chelsea are third and they're heading for qualification for the Champions League third round qualifying.
42:42Now Leicester City are 12th and bottom and their annotation says consigned to WSL 2 relegation playoff. You can't use the word consigned on wikipedia says mkbw50 no that's far too much as editorializing sure might as well say doomed well has it been decided have they played all their games no how many games would they play there's 12 teams in the league so no and they've played 17 so they've got a few games left so it's not it's not like they've they've been relegated no so at the moment they're on course to be consigned i don't like it i don't like you should can't have the word consigned on a wikipedia league table just just write wsl2 league relegation league playoff it's it's too editorialised.
43:20There isn't a citation needed next to the consigned or anything like that. No one's policing this stuff. This is the problem. Dear, oh dear. Anyway, speaking of being resigned to your fate, it's time for Keys and Grey Corner.
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43:51Thank heavens for this. I mean, honestly, when this popped up on a quiet Sunday morning and an international break, Dave, it felt too good to be true. It felt like there was a catch. It almost felt like a trap. This is an interview with Richard Keyes in The Telegraph by Oliver Brown in London with his wife, Lucy. I don't think I've ever clicked on anything quicker. I did get sent it a lot. I was on the touchline on Sunday morning. messages pinging into my into my phone have you seen this oh my god i can't wait for keys and gray corner so we've got a lot to live up to here the have you seen this scenes were quite incredible for this nick i was still getting sent it like an hour before we record this i was like yeah i've seen it mate i'll be honest it has come across my my radar yes in the last 24 hours but my big question about this interview nick is does do you think this officially heralds the next chapter of richard keys this is him drawing a very highly publicized line in his life and you know whatever's going to come next starts here right there's always something like this going to happen earlier than i expected i assumed he would come after the the end of the season maybe when his you know his time and in qatar was officially over maybe it is officially over now who knows i think you're right it does herald the next chapter he as you heard here first he's obviously leaving being at the end of the season i don't know whether the point of this um article from his point of view was to was for him to be able to give his say his side of the story on that whole thing obviously the headline and the picture is very much about him and his wife and and that whole business which i'm sure he did want to clarify a few things about but it definitely feels like a moment for kesey for sure it's he's moving and as he's as discussed in the piece i think this is kesey's third and final act isn't it he's moving he's he's got his eye on what am i going to do for the next you know however many years that i'm around um it's an extraordinary interview it's both kind of hyper keysian at times nick but also classically oliver brown who um just for context ollie brown is basically the sports arm of the anti-woke telegraph campaign and um it's an incredible line from this because uh one thing i will credit ollie brown for is i always learn a new word from every piece that he writes and he says you might imagine from his description that they encountered each other under a starry doha sky with lucy drawn into his orbit by some ineluctible keysian energy i've heard one ineluctible before i'm gonna start using it so yeah the big man certainly does have some energy and that pervades the entire piece i want to go through the top five moments from richard keys's interview with the telegraph number five dave the intro to the whole interview itself this is how ollie brown sets the scene to To step into Richard Keyes' West Kensington Des Rez is to be struck by a veritable symphony of whites.
46:36Des Rez is ridiculous. There is a sumptuous white sofa beside the bay window, immaculate white paving across the back garden, even a giant photograph of the white flowers displayed at his wedding to Lucy. No wonder the renovations took a year to complete. I cannot help but wonder if the tonal palette suggests a deeper refresh of the Keyes image. Where on the scale, Nick, of OK Magazine to Tatler is this? it's an insane intro it is it is a very tatler and it is a journalist really running with the i've spotted this small thing and i've extrapolated it to something completely unrelated but in my head it is probably which we've all done from time to time but this is an incredible example i'm convinced that ollie bran has a mind of his own dave but there's something about sumptuous white sofa that suggests keezy might have said it first sumptuous white sofa so this is great this is the start what a place to start at four Keezy biting back at Laura Woods who had a dig at him for his slightly absurd tweet following the death of Terry Yorath and the interview says the instant backlash was captured by presenter Laura Woods' withering verdict what a twat said with zero surprise she wrote the remark plainly still rankles I would never never have described a senior member of my profession as a twat he mutters a little bit more respect, please.
47:56This is a man who has issued the following nicknames to beleaguered football managers. Eric Tenmonths, Arnie Lost, Clouseau for Wilfred Nancey, the Jim Reaper for Man United Supremo, Russell Grant instead of Russell Martin. I mean, what an incredible set of standards this man has. A little bit more respect, please. As a kind of opportunity for setting the record straight on some things and a bit more conciliatory, maybe. and then he's offered the opportunity to kind of set this thing right and what he does is chide another woman for using a rude word. It is amazing, like, the kind of glacial progress we're making, Dave, for moving through Kesey's controversies.
48:36It feels like we've left 2011 behind just about. This interview makes pretty small mention of that. It almost tries to push it away. Now we're into the stuff about his marriage and his separation from his previous wife and things like that, which he wants to address. On this podcast, we rarely talk about it. we're not really interested in that but since he's talking about it here i feel like we should address it so we are moving through the stages of kees's life i don't know when we're going to shed ourselves of all of this stuff when are we going to move on from it all i guess that's the whole point of him doing this really isn't it and the answer to that question adam is just want to look at the replies to anything you post online no one is ever going to move on from any of it yeah that's unfortunate that is unfortunate at three ollie brown takes a swipe has there been a softening in journalism as in life you take people as you find them and keys has always been gracious in our dealings together.
49:21Those arbiters of moral virtue who deride him relentlessly on podcasts have never even bothered to meet him. I don't necessarily think, Dave, that this means us, because if anything, we've rehabilitated Keezy's reputation more than anybody. For better or worse, I think you could argue that, yeah. Yeah, I I've met him, so... There you go! And a friend of the podcast, Jack Pickbrook, has interviewed him, has big pals. A minor point in this, but Oliver Brown's saying, in journalists you should take people as you find them. No! That's the opposite of what journalism should be. You're not supposed to take people as you find them.
50:01Because if that, you go, well, did you do this thing? Nope. Okay, that's good enough for me. Listen, mate, you haven't sat on a sumptuous white sofa, so what are you talking about? Until you do, until you've sat on a sumptuous white sofa in that man's shoes, you can't judge anybody. But I quite like the idea of being an arbiter of moral virtue, if that is indeed us. It'd be like PGMOL. Keezy loves them. Right, at two. An insane twist in the interview. Sassy and self-assured, this is Lucy, by the way, she makes a mockery of the cruel trophy wife barbs that have circulated, especially when Keezy begins talking about the sizeable age gap.
50:34It baffles people, but I don't feel it. I never have. That's because you're my adult toddler, she interjects affectionately. What? What a clarification at the end that is, Nick. The first five or six times I read this, and that is unfortunately literally the number. There's something in my, you know how your brain doesn't read, doesn't like take in things. I hadn't taken in that she had said my adult toddler rather than an adult toddler, which partly because saying an adult toddler seems like a vaguely normal thing that someone might say. Yeah. My adult toddler is, I mean, let's not go too deeply into anything that Lucy says.
51:14Puts a different spin on things, doesn't it? Just a touch. I'm just glad that it's been decided it's affectionate, Dave. So just in case there was any sort of ambiguity to it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also in this section, seeking to restore some levity to the situation, he jokes that he has been struggling to decide who to ask for advice. Most people would turn to the father-in-law, he grins. He's younger than me. Come on, Kesey. It's like being managed by Fabian Herzler or something. It's such a kind of obvious and lazy thing to do the partridge thing. But that is, saying his father-in-law is younger than him, is Partridge saying, I've got a girlfriend.
51:49She's 33, or whatever it is. Yeah, it just feels like a strange turn if you want to start moving everything forward to just turn the discourse back on itself. But anyway, all of that is a real preamble, really, to the number one moment in this interview, which is simply absolute perfection. I will read it out in its entirety. Not that he ever felt too isolated at his retreat beside the Persian Gulf. Even when friends deserted him over his decision to leave Julia, his wife of 34 years, for Lucy, he had a few reliable coping mechanisms. For a long time, I was persona non grata, he reflects. I was left with a lot of very angry wives, and I wasn't invited to much, if anything at all.
52:27I remember one Christmas day, the best Christmas of my life, in fairness, where I sat with a bottle of champagne, a can of tuna, and I watched The Great Escape, Where Eagles Dare, and The Guns of Navarone, back to back to back three magnificent movies actually I wanted to do it many times since no offence to my current life where do you start with this David Walker the idea that it was the best Christmas of his life I think Dave's gone Dave's gone at this stage it's ridiculous it's so bleak the can of tuna champagne and a can of tuna but the films as well back to back to back back to back to back but super sunday nick i honestly don't think i could rate this christmas day out of 10 it could be anything i don't i don't know what angle to approach it from it sounds either amazing or terrible or bleak or astonishingly luxurious i've got no idea if you're nitpicking i would have replaced one of those films with zulu but um but maybe that maybe that would have tilted it too much into kind of this isn't actually real and he's uh he's he's in on the whole gag this was the point in the interview day for i thought this is all a big setup this is just a podcast like ours to fall into this trap and and and just be led a merry dance but i mean there's so many elements it's the ratios that fascinate me first of all i presume we're talking about a 750 mil standard bottle of champers here it was a jeroboam actually so that's six glasses probably and then you're on On the side, you've got 102 grams of tuna drained.
54:09That's the drained weight. So you're consuming 17 grams of tuna per glass. Is that going to see you through? One tin. Do steak au poivre, Richard. Put a bit of effort into it, surely. Why tuna? Why say it? Why put it in? I've got no idea. And then you get on to the main detail, really, Nick, which is those three films combined are eight hours and four minutes. if you factor in a toilet break what two per film probably you're looking at a good eight and a half hours what a day how do you make a tin of tuna last eight and a half hours I could eat a can of tuna for hours string it out oh god he's going to be very light headed isn't he after all that champagne and only a can of tuna to sustain I like to think it was like one of those bottles of champagne that a player got given from Man of the Match in the heyday in the 90s he's been saving it it's got the premiership written on it yeah ah this was Brian McClare's Gary McAllister for Coventry Paul Telfer maybe what if it was who was the goalkeeper who was the big wrong thing what if it belonged to whoever got man on the match in that game must have played not bad then who was it Dave Besson maybe it was his what a full sucker moment that would be that would be great waiting for Christmas to crack that particular bottle open.
55:34My God, what a day in Doha. I mean, there's nothing more to say about it. It's an incredible interview. What it's done to move on the Keys brand, I'm not entirely sure. He ends the piece speculating about potentially becoming a father again. Yeah, yeah. And look, good luck to him if that's the path that they go down. But we are very much at a phase of Beans coming to a close. he's alluded to the book but we still don't quite know what else he's gonna do there's a line as well in the piece about him just enjoying the simple pleasures in life like riding a lime bike in london i'm certainly going to be keeping my eye out for keezy on a lime bike in london staring out the window of your uber or something and there's keezy on a lime bike what a moment i don't know what i'd do in that situation one to dwell on perhaps i don't think anything we could have said in the last 15 minutes or so could have done justice to what we read on Sunday afternoon but I'm so glad it exists um thanks to you Nick Miller thank you thanks to you David Walker thank you thanks to everyone for listening we'll be back on Thursday see you then
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57:50I love the fact that he's chosen that moment to go, do you know what, now I'm going to do it. If he plays regular minutes this season in Manchester City, he will re-emerge as one of the best players that we've got.
58:20Thank you.
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Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by David Walker and Nick Miller. On the agenda: Dave's Sunday League management rollercoaster, Ben White's surreal Wembley evening, David Moyes's pointless Brazilian alter ego, Henry Winter on The Killers, the fascinating FIFA Series tournament, the crucial differences between "head to head" and "toe to toe", the football shirts of Butlins, the battle for bragging rights in Biggleswade and some above-average fictional football commentary.
Meanwhile, the panel fulfil their solemn duty of reflecting on a frankly sensational newspaper interview with Richard Keys.
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