Podcast · 134 episodes
Football Cliches, page 6
by Adam Hurrey & Goalhanger · English
Deconstructing the gloriously unique language of football – the words, the phrases and the tiny things you didn't think you cared about – with Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare & David Walker. Visit nordvpn.com/cliches to get four extra months on a two-year plan with NordVPN
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Vertical highlights, Farage's footballspeak & Stockley Park's canteen crisisFootball Clichés episode 5 (title: “Vertical highlights, Farage's footballspeak & Stockley Park's canteen crisis”) is a mix of football-media critique and listener-submitted phrase/format dilemmas.18 Aug 2025 · 53 min · 24 chapters
8.55 seconds in Wrexham, Celeste's Sky Sports flame is out & niche 2025-26 predictionsFootball Clichés episode 8.55 seconds in Wrexham, Celeste’s Sky Sports flame is out & niche 2025-26 predictions.13 Aug 2025 · 49 min · 25 chapters
Curtain-raising issues, Wycombe's new goal verb & things you cannot be "amid”This episode of Football Clichés (Adam Hurry, with Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker) is a rapid-fire “adjudication panel” on football language and media phrasing, plus match/league commentary.11 Aug 2025 · 48 min · 20 chapters
Conor Coady's football club, alphabetical top flights & the world's most generic team nameFootball Clichés episode (midweek adjudication panel) mixes football news, fan trivia, and pedantic “adjudication” of phrases.7 Aug 2025 · 44 min · 21 chapters
Eastenders' Euro 2025 joy, #AccidentalCantona & "the most 2011 transfer of all time”This Football Clichés episode is an “adjudication panel” discussion mixing football news, UK soap-opera parody, language/TV/media nitpicks, and listener submissions.4 Aug 2025 · 50 min · 32 chapters
The Football Cliches Quiz XX: The View From The LaneFootball Clichés Quiz XX (“The View From The Lane”), a Tottenham-themed quiz with rounds of trivia, audio clips, and a final “Happy Hunting Grounds” challenge.30 Jul 2025 · 1 h 10 min · 32 chapters
Goalkeepers' headers & elasticos on the deck of the Titanic: The listeners' loves & hates*Football Clichés (July) is a listener-driven episode mixing “fascinations” and “irrational irritations.” Topic: players’ reactions when they don’t square to a better-placed teammate;…28 Jul 2025 · 41 min · 13 chapters
The Agyemang Cacophony, the storm-weathering threshold & how clubs “get their man”Football Clichés’ “Midweek Adjudication Panel” debates Euro 2025 England vs Italy (including penalty rebound rules, “storm-weathering” thresholds, and England’s slow starts), then pivots to…24 Jul 2025 · 50 min · 24 chapters
Talispersons, textbook Turkish Super Lig & time limits for the commentator's curseFootball Clichés episode about football language clichés, transfer/press-release wording, and “commentator’s curse” timing, plus adjudicating listener-submitted examples.21 Jul 2025 · 40 min · 18 chapters
The threshold for being "rudderless" & Tour de France riders as footballersFootball Clichés midweek adjudication panel covers: (1) whether a Wimbledon crowd might boo Morgan Stanley, plus Ben Shelton’s “quarterbacker” American football background; (2) Scott Sinclair being…16 Jul 2025 · 45 min · 26 chapters
Pre-season trophies, Iran in the Championship... and what happened to shin splints?Football Clichés episode about pre-season “trophies” and football media clichés, plus Euro 2025, transfers, and a listener Q&A on injuries.14 Jul 2025 · 43 min · 23 chapters
Overage youth team mentors & the quickest repaying of a transfer fee everFootball Clichés episode (Adjudication Panel) covers: Euro 2025 “clamour” for 19-year-old Michelle Agumang to be used vs the Netherlands; a debate about Opta Joe’s “mustered” shot stat for Germany’s…9 Jul 2025 · 42 min · 20 chapters
Giving 40,000%, Test Match Andy Townsend & "Can you explore a swoop?”Football Clichés episode covering: Euro 2025 (England Women’s 2-1 loss to France and familiar England failings, including a baffling VAR offside), transfer-silly-season language (“exodus” vs “clear…7 Jul 2025 · 40 min · 13 chapters
Wimbledon tennis players as footballers & the floodgates thresholdFootball Clichés episode: The hosts (Adam Hurry, Charlie Eccleshare, David Walker) riff on football culture via Wimbledon tennis players imagined as footballers, and on match-theory “floodgates”…2 Jul 2025 · 51 min · 22 chapters