In short
Football 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.
Guests
Charlie Eccleshare (football writer; co-host) and David Walker (Dreamland trip; Dreamland HQ in Margate; co-host).
Key claims
Sky Sports is rolling out “vertical highlights” for portrait viewing, which can cause missed action due to camera framing; Match of the Day 2 has been retired post-Linica, with fewer quirky “community” features and more generic punditry.
Notable examples
“running an absolute mock” vs “up in absolute raw” (Steve Sidwell/5 Live); “pastures new” being awkwardly used with Vítor Pereira; “knocking on the door” interpreted via Reddit jokes about goalkeepers “answering” (Raya). Farage’s Reform FC shirts are mocked for “leaderboard” and “we’re nine points clear” football-speak. Stockley Park’s “canteen crisis” is referenced as a theme. Also discussed: goalkeeper release-time rule impacts (Sunday League corners), and a European oddity where Shelbourne and Linfield meet repeatedly across qualifiers/playoffs.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VORecapping the Weekend's Matches
0:03 to 0:30
The hosts discuss the first post-Linica match of Match of the Day and its reviews.
“So you were scrolling on Marketplace and there it was, the bike you'd been searching for.”
Recapping the Weekend's Matches
2:43 to 4:10
The hosts discuss the first post-Linica match of Match of the Day and its reviews.
“Hello everyone and welcome to Football Clichés, I'm Adam Hurry, this is the Adjudication Panel.”
Analyzing Match of the Day Changes
4:10 to 6:10
The panel debates changes to Match of the Day's format and presentation.
“Dave, you know, there's nothing wrong with it.”
Fearing for Teams After First Weekend
6:10 to 8:02
Discussion on which teams might struggle after the first weekend of the Premier League.
“They should be like referees seeking the limelight.”
Scott Parker's Comments on Tottenham
8:02 to 9:56
Analysis of Scott Parker's comments on Tottenham's performance and the tone of his remarks.
“One weekend's done in the Premier League, Dave, so the big question must now be asked by law, who are we fearing for?”
British Phrases in Football Commentary
9:56 to 11:50
Exploring the use of British phrases by foreign managers in football commentary.
“I remember when he was Swansea manager and they played Liverpool away and it was like, you know, it's just nice for them to get to see our team.”
Dan Ballard's Goal Commentary
11:50 to 14:00
A humorous breakdown of Ian Crocker's commentary on Dan Ballard's memorable goal.
“I thought it was going to be up in absolute arms.”
Dan Ballard's Memorable Goal
14:00 to 17:33
Discussion about Dan Ballard's header and the delivery of commentary.
“scoring for Sunderland against West Ham.”
The Meaning of 'Knocking on the Door'
17:33 to 22:29
Exploration of the football phrase 'knocking on the door' and its implications in matches.
Vertical Highlights Discussion
22:33 to 25:29
Critique of the use of vertical highlights in football broadcasts.
“It secures your connection, protecting your personal information and online activity, especially on public Wi-Fi.”
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Vertical Highlights Discussion
25:56 to 27:36
Critique of the use of vertical highlights in football broadcasts.
“You sent a message, and it turned out the seller was super chatty, kind of funny, and an avid cyclist.”
Reflections on FA Cup Finalists
28:00 to 28:41
The hosts discuss their observations on acceptable FA Cup finalists and share a funny anecdote about a mix-up.
“Once we got through the ethos and figured out what we were doing, it was really good fun, actually.”
Isaac Price's Goals and Height Debate
28:47 to 29:53
Discussion revolves around a player's goals and the humorous complexities of measuring height.
“Here is West Brom midfielder Isaac Price being asked about his brace against Wrexham this weekend.”
Holiday Dilemma for a Football Fan
29:53 to 32:36
A fascinating dilemma is posed about how much a Manchester United fan can tolerate while on holiday watching Liverpool.
“That means you've got no grasp on how tall you are, which would be absolutely insane.”
Google Maps and Stadium Pitches
32:36 to 35:17
Exploration of the visibility of stadium pitches on Google Maps and the amusing findings from listeners.
“Yeah, because I'm like, I'll go for a half.”
Managerial Quotes and Timing
35:17 to 37:54
Discussion on the appropriateness of managers claiming they've seen the champions early in the season.
“Because it's kind of like, well, yeah, we sort of all know that.”
Rules and Misunderstandings in Football
37:54 to 42:00
Hosts delve into various football rules, including goalkeeper releases and communication among players.
“It's permeated to Sunday League already.”
Chalabar's Controversial Moment
42:00 to 42:59
Discussing a controversial incident involving Nathaniel Chalabar during a match.
“If you're talking about the same incident.”
Chalabar's Controversial Moment
43:14 to 44:34
Discussing a controversial incident involving Nathaniel Chalabar during a match.
“You sent a message, and it turned out the seller was super chatty, kind of funny, and an avid cyclist.”
Farage's Reform FC Launch
44:40 to 46:30
Analyzing Nigel Farage's launch of Reform FC and the reactions to it.
“Hesitant to talk about this, but here it is.”
Stockley Park Canteen Crisis
46:31 to 47:41
Discussing the closure of the Stockley Park canteen due to a pest issue.
“The political values don't align, actually.”
Keys and Grey Corner Returns
47:42 to 53:00
Recapping the return of Keys and Grey Corner and discussing their commentary style.
“too kesey about this anyway speaking of Premier League pests it's time for Keys in Grey Corner Ford Super Sunday.”
Keys and Grey Corner Returns
53:02 to 53:26
Recapping the return of Keys and Grey Corner and discussing their commentary style.
“Feel your body relax and let go of whatever you're carrying today.”
Keys and Grey Corner Returns
53:31 to 54:02
Recapping the return of Keys and Grey Corner and discussing their commentary style.
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Transcript
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2:10Charlie Eccleshare:This nation is going to dance all night. More of the same for match of the day. Opening weekend you fear foring and they'll be fining. Steve Sidwell tries to take John Hartson's absolute crown. The concept of knocking on the opposition's door. South Coast Seismology with Gary Weaver, Finely Poised Holiday Football Watching Dilemmas, Sunday League Clampdowns, Nigel Farage's Football Speak Cracks Under Pressure, Stockley Park's New Crisis, and Keys and Grey Ride Again. Brought to your ears by Goalhanger Podcasts, this is Football Clichés.
2:48Charlie Eccleshare:Hello everyone and welcome to Football Clichés, I'm Adam Hurry, this is the Adjudication Panel. Joining me, first of all, Charlie Eccleshare. How are you doing? Very well, thank you. Alongside you is David Walker. You were in Dreamland this weekend, quite literally. I was, yeah. Fitting as our latest episode of Dreamland was published on Sunday. And in a genuine coincidence, I went to Margate for a day trip with some mates on Sunday. And that's where Dreamland HQ is. The physical manifestation of Dreamland is in Margate. It's good fun. Good fun, Dreamland. I'd recommend it. I couldn't quite work it out.
3:24I just thought it was like a theatre sort of thing. But then I saw later on, it's like a massive theme park. And it was shut by the time I went around to it. But like, it did make me think. You didn't feel 2-0 up at all then, did you? No, I didn't quite get in there. Yeah, sadly. But some big, some real big names are playing and have played Dreamland. So if we ever want to actually do a show, a Dreamland, I mean, it's an option. But I think we have to really mix it with some real big names. That would be great.
3:51Charlie Eccleshare:A summer outdoors gig. baby dreamland wildgate that'd be fantastic right but yeah in the real world we're going on tour in 2025 join us in brighton cardiff the hackney empire in london birmingham dublin manchester not leeds or glasgow because they're sold out this october go to tickets.footballcliches.com i'm so excited about this live show it is developing and is evolving very nicely uh with about seven weeks to go looking forward to it let's adjudication panel charlie can we spare a thought for those tasked by uk media outlets to write a review of the first post linica match of the day i mean i wouldn't say it was a damp squib i mean it was just a normal episode of match of the day but what were we all expecting and have they pulled the wool over our eyes in some respects it's tricky as well isn't it because we have seen you know we've seen match of the day too we've seen stand and presenters that sort of thing like it's not it's not like an unimaginable thing that we were being exposed to yeah um and it's quite a lot of words in some cases to feel about not a lot happening.
4:50Charlie Eccleshare:Dave, you know, there's nothing wrong with it. Nothing needed to change. And so it turned out. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Chappers has hosted it loads of times before, so it didn't feel different at all. I mean, apart from having Wayne Rooney unveiled as a permanent member of the BBC sport team, that was really the only difference. I suppose the one small difference I noticed, I think, I think this is new anyway, it looks new to me, was like the backdrop. So not like the big screen where they play all the highlights for the analysis, but the backdrop either side of the presenters and the pundits it was some sort of like neon blue cityscape yeah it's like blue and purple really news nighty to me when so when it was just like the one shot of gabby or chappers you know i could imagine them talking to some politicians or something on the other side of the of the sofa which looked a bit weird but that's that's really all we've got in the way of changes how many words can you string out on that yeah exactly i don't want my match of the day background to be a nightscape Charlie I want it to be time agnostic I don't want it to reference the fact that it's on in the night time at all yeah or be any like I mean obviously it's recorded in Salford but what is the sort of scape that we're talking about here it's not like a kind of show in Westminster that's right at the heart of the action it's the whole point of it is that it's kind of everywhere it's nationwide can't believe this is the one thing we found to talk about on match of the day I didn't even watch it I didn't watch it never gonna right um on match of the day though um former cliches guest ralph innocent tweeted all hail the continuity announcer on match of the day for going off script to declare his leads love respect um here indeed is the continuity announcer just before the sunday night edition of match of the day
6:31hitting the halfway point a double destination x here in an hour before all that my beloved leads don't kick off until tomorrow but isn't it good to be back
6:42Charlie Eccleshare:I don't want my continuity announcers just talking about themselves, Dave. They should be like referees seeking the limelight. Yeah, it does seem a bit much, doesn't it? Yeah, if Leeds were playing and let's say they'd won their first game, I wouldn't mind a nod to that. Oh, but then you're ruining, then it's the look away now thing. He might have to preface it with, if you don't know the scores, ignore my Leeds quick. Yeah, but if they were playing, I wouldn't mind some sort of elegant nod. But the fact they're not even played to tomorrow, mate, shut up. The ego on this bloke, Charlie. This can't be allowed.
7:14I don't mind, you know, humanising these, the conspiracy readers.
7:19Charlie Eccleshare:Yeah, AI is coming for them. I suppose it's probably they're probably fighting back. I chose my words carefully there, Dave, for the Sunday night edition of Match of the Day. It is, of course, officially now not Match of the Day 2. And as a result, RIP, too good, too bad. It's been retired, according to a source. A real end of an era. The one thing that we didn't see this coming, did we? We didn't see Match of the Day 2 and Too Good Too Bad being the sort of ultimate casualty of the post-Linica era, did we? But there we go. How are you supposed to round off our footballing weekends, Charlie, without a quirky sort of sideways look at what happened in the little lighter moments of the Premier League weekend?
7:56A bit of levity. I mean, is it as well, because that was obviously when Match of the Day 2 started, it was part of this point of differentiation, like it's going to be a little more informal, etc., etc., is getting rid of it and not to the fact that as with the title it's the same product it's kind of
8:09Charlie Eccleshare:the same thing yeah i mean on a similar note dave they they didn't do a little community feature either i mean not that i give a shit about them anyway i have to confess it's not my favorite piece of footballing content i've ever experienced in my life but wow they've really revamped it so what they did do with the couple of minutes they sort of had extra at the end was was sort of throw ahead to the leeds everton game and they talked a bit about jack greelish and his him signing for Everton and so you know a bit more straight laced content rather than anything sort of that can sometimes be a bit flimsy too good too bad sometimes it's funny sometimes it's a bit throwaway yeah community features again it always feels a bit doing something that you feel like you have to do rather than you want to do yeah but it does mean we're going to get more generic punditry I worry what Adrian Charles thinks about this Charlie his legacy is just being buried I know I was thinking that yeah you fear for the quirky features if uh even match the day two is ditching or match the day Sunday.
9:02Charlie Eccleshare:Taking it seriously now, fair enough. One weekend's done in the Premier League, Dave, so the big question must now be asked by law, who are we fearing for? Comes down to Wolves or Brentford so far, doesn't it? Yeah, I think, and those two very much sort of confirming the fears that were already there before the first weekend. A bit of West Ham, I'd say, as well, probably. Yeah, thinking whether they would qualify. I thought West Ham bled slightly into the they'll be fine category. I don't know, though. There's not a lot to base that on at all. Can you, just thinking about the you fear for, can you do that this early for a newly promoted team, or is that just too self-evident?
9:42I mean, could you say that? I mean, Burnley lost 3-0, and you do fear for them, but we sort of always did.
9:47Charlie Eccleshare:You definitely could. If they get absolutely battered, and the sort of thinness of their squad sort of reveals itself in the first game, do you think you could fear for them? or it's more it's going to be a long hard season four right yeah that yeah exactly that's what i mean which is slightly different yeah scott parker the burnley manager dave after they were dispatched quite comfortably by thomas frank spurs and was asked about spurs given that they were his former club afterwards and they said they've got a good manager and some fantastic players they'll be fine dan grisby says can scott parker really they'll be fine tottenham it's not your place son that's so good I think it's all about tone though isn't it he's not like it's not like in the West Ham centuries going oh they'll be fine don't worry about them it's more about Van Nuoyen they'll be fine don't worry about them yeah all right worry about me I'm in trouble they'll be fine they've got look at all the players they've got maybe the intonation was more they'll be just fine it wasn't said in the kind of the patronizing way we used to I mean I love it I love when managers do I mean I mentioned before the Pardew saying about Mourinho's Chelsea that they played their part.
10:50Brendan Rodgers used to do it. I remember when he was Swansea manager and they played Liverpool away and it was like, you know, it's just nice for them to get to see our team. I know a lot of them looking forward to all of this stuff. It's just brilliant.
11:02Charlie Eccleshare:Scott Park in a very nice suit for the opening day as well. I wonder how that will unravel as the season continues. Thanks to the very large handful of people who sent this in as soon as it was uttered. Here's Steve Sidwell on 5 Live co-commentary duty for Chelsea versus Crystal Palace And I think this is the long-awaited challenger to John Hartson's iconic running an absolute mock. The pallets have a free kicker south side. Their own penalty area, 0-0. Well, I think we're in the East stand here, aren't we? I think they was up in absolute raw. I think that was a bit fortunate there. Up in absolute raw is the greatest thing I've ever heard.
11:41Charlie Eccleshare:Charlie, there's two things going on here. He's done the classic thing of getting an absolute in the middle, which is a glorious art form in its own right. but he's had to shuffle the words around to do it and the quick thinking involved there and what it's resulted in it's just brilliant i love it yeah i that that is class i i still think running an absolute mock for me will it's possibly unbeatable but um but yeah that that's great work the interesting thing about that is that you know running a mock running an absolute mock is just inserting absolute into running a mock would still work you wouldn't say up in raw would you Yeah, I know, that's why it's weirder and less good for me.
12:19Charlie Eccleshare:Up in absolute roar. I thought it was going to be up in absolute arms. Yeah, it's a new podcast catchphrase as far as I'm concerned. Not keen on in-jokes, seriously, but yeah, there we are. Right, a bugbear of mine that's been going on for years and it reared its ugly head on weekend one, Dave. Here is a quintessentially British phrase being posed to a foreign football manager. Your task hasn't been made easy. you've lost some key players like Atonore and of course Mateus Cunha have left for pastures new. How difficult is it to replace that and replicate the form you showed at the end of last season?
12:54Charlie Eccleshare:I think it's not, today is not the time for Gretz to complain about. Please don't say pastures new to Vito Ferreira. He took it in his stride though, didn't he? To be honest, at least he didn't go, sorry? He did, at least it had been sort of telegraphed for it. Like it didn't need to mean anything because it had already been like sufficiently explained. The worst is when they are, they're just sort of thrown an idiom as the only thing they've got to chew on. And it's like, sorry, what? I haven't read any long reads about Vito Pereira yet, Charlie. But there is a small chance, you know, that in his spare time he reads John Milton's Licidus from 1637, which coined the phrase Past is New.
13:29Charlie Eccleshare:So we never know. Well, there was a flicker of recognition when he was asked. So let's find out. Interested that you see it as a flicker of recognition. I saw him sort of just looking and going, what the fuck does Past is New mean? What is that? Yeah, there was definitely something. Why did they do it? Why? Yeah, I think it's just so ingrained. I mean, we should have asked Shrevesy. Maybe we did, I can't remember, because he was the master of that. He was like, Jose, was it a case of locking the door after the horse has bolted? Or something like that. And you're like, what is it like? He's speaking his fourth language.
13:57What is he meant to say to that? He would have hated that.
13:59Charlie Eccleshare:That episode would have gone an even further downhill, Dave, if we'd confronted him with that. God, you had to think. Don't he'll call you again, Adam. Yeah, true. Right, next up. Here is Dan Ballard. scoring for Sunderland against West Ham. He's done it again, as Ian Crocker illustrates for us. It's a perfect header, but then it all evokes from this man, Dan Ballard. Scoring with a memorable header at the Stadium of Light. Again, either side of summer. Great. Charlie spat out his tea. it's a fantastic either siding of isn't it look at him go
14:49i honestly was not expecting that
14:54Charlie Eccleshare:either side of summer either side of summer and the way he said it was just such a good intonation absolutely unhinged delivery all the way through dave but chris luke jones writes in and says i guess it's true but surely that's way too long a period to be either side of Yeah, I mean, without getting into the fact that technically we are still in summer, I suppose. But it's, I mean, yeah, what's he been doing in the interim? One big, long halftime break. Yeah, picked up where he left off. Fantastic. Right, Charlie, the footballing phrase, knocking on the door, what scenarios does it pertain to?
15:31Charlie Eccleshare:What does it mean to you? Well, they've been knocking on the door. you might say if they have finally then scored the knocking on the door means they've been creating lots of chances getting close getting closer and then finally bang the door down and they score so it's a spell of concerted pressure yeah i would say so classic type 2855 on reddit says daniel sturridge has just said at the end of manchester united versus arsenal that man united were knocking on the door and the goalkeeper was answering surely if the keeper is stopping goals going in he's keeping the door shut rather than answering it that's a good question you suppose you could tell someone we're busy or whatever behind the door not today mate sorry you can't keep answering because because the key is not i suppose whether the door's open it's whether you can actually get through it and get in because you're kind of like banging the door you're trying to like bang the door down essentially i guess the implication is that once you have done it you'll all sort of stream through yeah it's not an expectation of someone opening going oh hello come in you're trying to beat the door down yourself but um the responses to this on reddit Dave were pure literally Dave heaven.
16:31Charlie Eccleshare:Viva Le Domp says the only plausible explanation is that Raya was keeping the door shut while simultaneously telling him not today through the letterbox. Yeah, nice. The letterbox is good. Yeah. Shameless Bullshitter says it's 2025. He was using a video doorbell. Surely. Good answer. Yeah. Balearic Priest Charlie says I guess you could see them as Jehovah's Witnesses or whatever and just answer every time like sorry not interested which I think is quite a clever way of saying a goalkeeper repelling some fairly tame attacks. Yeah, but there are layers to this that I'd probably not thought of before.
17:01Well, that last one could be an Andy Gray conversation, couldn't it? And Raya's opened the door and he said to them, sorry, not today.
17:10Charlie Eccleshare:Billy Connolly there. They can take our lives and never take our freedom. Our Scottish accent not improving in 25, 26. You can do it in your spare time. For some reason, as soon as we hit record, it all goes to shit. The game is gone, Dave. the game has gone for 25 26 sky sports are publishing vertical highlights they are named as such premier league vertical highlights and you can you can click on the ones you want to watch so they're pandering to the uh to the portrait audience yeah it sort of annoys me that they caught that they've labeled it vertical highlights we can we can see we can see that they are but mobile highlights if anything call them vertical yeah i this is this came up on a listener's mhd didn't it once in terms of problems with vertical highlights or any vertical footage is the camera pans and you and you can miss people coming in out of shot or all that sort of thing so that is it's going to be something we're going to need to get used to we're going to be consuming our highlights vertically this season charlie you know a lot of people are bemoaning the shortened attention spans of the youth of today but now we've got to bemoan the fact they can't be asked to turn their phones around 90 degrees and watch it like that pathetic yeah if some have got the lock on and they've got to change that and stuff yeah i do too much i do have to change the function if i do yeah i know so yeah extra lay of security i find against what i don't know but we'll find it doesn't matter against vertical eye yeah yeah right um we've heard from ian crocker it seems remiss of us um to go at least one week of the season without hearing from the great gary weaver here is ipswich taking the lead early on at home to southampton
19:05Charlie Eccleshare:that last bit is ridiculous completely unnecessary Charlie the rest of it is pure weaver like textbook weaver what is that last bit yeah because also you'd expect it might be like the tremors could be felt all around the championship or something if it's in a kind of like they're sending out a statement way but the idea that like the southampton army or cavalry is gathered back in southampton and are sort of being warned off making an attack of this fortress don't do it lads cups of tea just sort of vibrating on the tables of southampton going oh we must have conceded early so seismic going behind the dead snips which away quick i'll get in the bath you should have scored a second there's a small portion of that which I would like to hear again which is I feel like I've heard Weaver say so many times fortress again that intonation is so Weaver it must be just absolutely coded into him by now it's incredible to dig into his castles and his fortresses I mean so when is a castle not a fortress and how do you make it it was a fortress when they were in the championship and then they went up to the Premier League and it got downgraded to a castle because they were no good well I guess they just started getting their defences started getting breached I mean not every castle is impenetrable so I guess you know it needs to be back to where it was where it's properly fortified and invaders can't just swan in and take what they want or you know as they were doing last season yeah instinctively Dave I feel like you've fallen into the trap of assuming that all castles are built for pure defence like if you go over to Germany and look at the beautiful schlosses of Bavaria or something like that, that's decoration first, right?
20:44Charlie Eccleshare:Yeah, a lot of them are perched on unassailable peaks, which make them difficult to breach, but they're not all about sort of, you know, hardy defences. Weaver can have that if he ever gets a call up to the Conference League or the Europa League. That'd be great. It'd be helpful for him, yeah, yeah. We should unleash him on Europe. We should. He'd be great in the Conference League. Well, he did do Europe, didn't he? Well, he did, yeah. Famously. That Malaga game. Malaga Dortmund, yeah. Yeah, the first ever planting of a flag. Yeah, of course it was. Great knowledge. On this game, Blues for the Fisherman was watching.
21:12Charlie Eccleshare:He says, during the Ipswich versus Southampton game on Sky, Andy Hinchcliffe, no, not Don Goodman, I'm certain, has just said that he's looking forward to Ryan Manning coming on so he can enjoy the battle between him and the opponent's left wing back, Leif Davis. Given that they'll be on opposite flanks, can they do battle? Dave, this is opposite number gate all over again. Yeah, so Manning is a left back as well. Yeah, a left back, yeah. Yeah, it's not really a head-to-head battle, is it? They are literally operating on two different flanks. He's a former left wing backman himself, isn't he, Charlie, of course?
21:42Charlie Eccleshare:Maybe he was just looking forward to seeing how they do things, but it's mad. They can't do battle. No, but I wonder if as a left back, if you were playing like an Andy Robertson or someone when he was in his pump, whether you as a left back would be like, oh, I can't wait to test myself against him. You know, see who has the better, even though you're not in direct combat, if you've had a great game and his crosses have been crap, you might be like, oh, I've really won. I've won that left back battle today. Yeah, they eye each other across the pitch and go, do you not? They put us down as a key battle in the newspaper this morning.
22:13Charlie Eccleshare:Can we do something about this? You can't pay too much attention, though, can you? You can't be accused of being opposite number watching. You've got to be alert, out of possession. You can't just be standing over there and looking at the other side of the pitch to see how they're getting on. Cutting out each other's cross-field passes. That's the only way they could do it. Anyway, this episode is brought to you in association with NordVPN. For those who don't know, VPN stands a virtual private network. It secures your connection, protecting your personal information and online activity, especially on public Wi-Fi.
22:41Charlie Eccleshare:The VPN can also make your phone or laptop appear if it's in another country, which is great for accessing content while travelling. And indeed, into Europe we go. A little curiosity from European competition for you now, Charlie. Back in mid-July, Irish side's Shelbourne beat Northern Irish champions Linfield in the Champions League qualifying first round. As a result, Linfield dropped into the Conference League qualifiers. Shelbourne progressed, but then lost to Karabag in the Champions League qualifying second round and dropped into the Europa League qualifiers. There, they lost to Croatian side Rijeka and dropped into the Conference League playoff round where they will play Linfield again.
23:20Charlie Eccleshare:That's mad. Wow. So two teams are playing each other twice in European competition in the same season, in different competitions. That is mad. Do you think this has ever happened before? I don't know. I think, I mean... Fair. that does sound like quite an extraordinary set of circumstances. I realise this is very Guardians the Knowledge, Dave, but I need to know. I want listeners to furnish me with this information. If two teams have ever met in two different European competitions in the same season before, the Super Cup does not count. Do not go with the Super Cup. I'm not interested. So my theories are Intertoto to UEFA Cup is possible because you have multiple winners of the Intertoto in the past and they go straight through to the UEFA so they could meet again.
24:04Charlie Eccleshare:I don't think Champions League group stage down to the UEFA Europa is possible because two teams don't drop down from the same groups they couldn't have played each other twice and you wouldn't have and then yeah they could go I mean they could go on to play them you know they couldn't have played they couldn't have played consecutively in different competitions oh no because you yeah you're right you can't well hmm yeah I'm trying to think yeah you couldn't have oh because only one team drops out of the group yeah yeah exactly So it would need to be the same sort of scenario as this, Dave. You need to be qualifiers.
24:36Charlie Eccleshare:Listener Michael Cox says two teams could have met in the Champions League qualifiers. One has lost and gone into the Europa. One has gone on, gone into the Champions League group, dropped out of that group into the Europa and they've met again. So that's perfectly feasible, but the odds are right against it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I feel like we probably would have heard about it if it had happened before as well. one of the Shelbourne players Charlie said that it's just really annoying to have to play Linfield again like there's just no magic in this whatsoever you've had to play them four times in the space of six weeks and it's just crap do you know what I agree yeah it is annoying especially if if Linfield win if Linfield beat Shelbourne after having lost to them initially that would be even more annoying yeah listeners get in touch if you can find a precedent for this I'm fascinated to know.
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27:33Charlie Eccleshare:Welcome back to Football Clichés. This is the Adjudication Panel. A reminder that for£5.99 a month, you can become a Football Clichés member. you can join Dreamland, where you'll get two episodes a month of Dreamland, our exclusive new show, and ad-free listening to all of our episodes. As Dave alluded to earlier, episode five of Dreamland is out now, the perfect football season. Charlie, we tried to assemble the major and minor components of the optimum football season, a campaign where everything ends up in its rightful, logical place. Once we got through the ethos and figured out what we were doing, it was really good fun, actually.
28:09Yeah, I think we've all got a lot of thoughts on that sort of thing. I think it's sort of thing as well listeners will have thoughts on as well. So hopefully it'll resonate.
28:18Charlie Eccleshare:One of those episodes where I'm glad my observations on the acceptable FA Cup finalists only went out to a listenership of about four figures, Dave. Yeah, you're talking about the old double slug final, weren't you? Portsmouth and West Brom. Oh, thank you for that. Okay, we've increased that listenership. Sorry, everyone. Portsmouth and Cardiff. Yeah, offended another team with West, just assuming it's always West Brom. Right. Yes, go to dreamland.footballcliches.com to enjoy all of that. You're going to love this. This came from Elliot. Here is West Brom midfielder Isaac Price being asked about his brace against Wrexham this weekend.
28:54Charlie Eccleshare:Which goal pleased you most? I think they're both different goals, aren't they? But the second one is something I've tried to work on a little bit more, the timing, arriving in between defenders. And yeah, headers is something I should definitely get a lot more goals on. I'm 6 '2", 6 '3". Like Jed said, I should be in there more scoring more headers. He can't list his own heights. You've got to know how tall you are. This is insane. Unless he's still growing, which he might well be at the age of 21. Yeah, I can sort of see that. Because I'm a half-inch man. I'm six foot one, six foot two. Do you think this is what it is?
29:25So it's like, I'm always like, I don't know. I feel like I'm lying a bit if I say six foot two. It's not quite right. But then I don't want to downgrade myself. And you don't want to go for the half-inch because it looks a bit... It's a bit much, isn't it? No, you can't say that. But also, I think it's... How often do you actually measure yourself? you know at some point when you sort of think that you've stopped growing whenever that might come in your teens or whatever or whenever it is you might measure yourself and that's it but you know you sometimes think am i still that height have i gone down a bit like have i've
29:54Charlie Eccleshare:like going up a shoe size oh that's nice anyway i went to his wikipedia page dave and he's listed six for four wow he could have gone for the trio that would have been so good yeah you can't go for you would never do the three charlie right that would make no sense oh god i mean that's For yourself, that really is a law. That means you've got no grasp on how tall you are, which would be absolutely insane. Quite a flex. I'm that relaxed about it. Wearing studs as well. They could chip you over the edge, couldn't they? Yeah, that's true. Riding to Isaac Price's defence here, both of you. Good to see.
30:26Charlie Eccleshare:Now, next up, John Myers. Got in touch on Friday night, Charlie, with a finely poised dilemma. He says, I'm on holiday with my wife and two kids under five, And I've been given leave to watch the first half of the Liverpool versus Bournemouth game. I'm a Manchester United fan. What is an acceptable score to leave here happy but not desperate to stay? Obviously, I would take 5-0 Bournemouth. But what's the right answer? This is a fascinating dilemma. Only getting to watch the first half is a hard situation. That's really hard as it is. I mean, well, happy in what sense? Like, happy that you're not missing anything.
30:59If Liverpool were 3-0 up, if you're a United fan, you'd be like, well, fuck this. I don't really want to watch the second half anyway. to actually feel happy that the result you want, which is presumably Liverpool not winning, I mean, that's, Bournemouth would have to have a big lead. But even then, I think you'd still then, well, no, I think if they were like 3-0 up, because if they're 2-0 up, you'd think, well, Liverpool are probably going to draw this anyway or might even win it. I think at 3-0 up, you'd be like, there's a very good chance Liverpool are dropping points here. And all I'm going to be watching in the second half is Liverpool attacking and scoring potentially.
31:31And I don't, like, I've seen the fun bit. this is the half I wanted to have seen. From here on in, I'll sort of take it.
31:36Charlie Eccleshare:Still feels quite far-fetched 3-0 Bournemouth away at Anfield. Dave, I mean, realistically, would you... I mean, 2-1 Bournemouth? Like, just to say, you've seen enough goals. You've seen quite a few goals in the first half of football. You know, just as a general neutral football fan. But you're left with the fact that Liverpool are having to fight back in the second half and Bournemouth might cling on. What about a really, really dull 0-0 where Liverpool aren't playing well? Liverpool looking just looking like they're not gelling and Bournemouth are just being Bournemouth. So you don't really want to see any more of it.
32:06You're satisfied that Liverpool aren't looking that good this season. And I actually don't want to watch another 45 minutes of that. So I'm happy to get out of there.
32:12Charlie Eccleshare:A finely poised answer to a finely poised dilemma. I think that might be the most realistic option. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure I've been in this situation before, Charlie, where I've only had the chance to watch the first half of the game. I just think, yeah. I have had it before with childcare where I could only go to the first half of a game. I'm not exaggerating. I know, it was awful. I just could, I tried every avenue, couldn't get it. But I was like, well, half's better than nothing. Why bother? Really? You just thought that, really? Yeah, because I'm like, I'll go for a half. Because by the same logic, what if the first half is 3-0 and then nothing happens in the second?
32:43You're like, that was well worth it. Saw all the goals, brilliant. As it happens, the first half was 0-0. And on the three minute vertical highlights package, there was one, The second half was then really exciting. Loads happened. There was one thing from the first half, which was like a sort of P-roll of volley that dribbled wide. That was what I got for that 45 minutes of football. Also a terrible ratio of like travel to and from the game for minutes watched. All awful, but I'd do it again.
33:09Charlie Eccleshare:Yeah, that's loyalty. That is loyalty. Now, Dave, you'll remember from last week, someone got in touch with a kind of unsolicited listeners, Mesut Haaland Dix, where they said, well, they look up stadiums on Google Maps and find that the pitch hasn't been readied for football. It's either missing or it hasn't had the lines painted. And there was a remarkable ratio that they'd found of stadiums not in football mode. And we had some theories that satellites are a clearer view during the summer when football isn't on. But Benjani56 has taken it upon himself to do the research on this. And he says, if like me, you listened to the most recent podcast and wanted to know the state of every prem pitch on Google Maps, and here is the answer.
33:49Charlie Eccleshare:Intact pitches 16, no pitch, two, Spurs and West Ham. Something in the middle, two, Burnley and Palace. That is, their pitches are being relayed or, you know, just having work done on them. Can you see the groundsman rolling out the pitch then in the shots? Yeah, I mean, that would be fantastic. But yeah, Spurs and West Ham, of course, Dave, are in concert mode on Google Maps, which feels massively unsatisfying. Yeah, I mean, Spurs, yeah, a lot of concerts there and both of them. But I guess it would be even better if you got them while they were hosting another sport. So boxing at Tottenham or the baseball at West Ham would be good, wouldn't it?
34:27That would really blow your mind if you didn't know what was going on there.
34:30Charlie Eccleshare:Yeah. Charlie, as a footnote to this, Benjani56 says, none of them are being played on in the images, disappointingly, football or otherwise. Do you reckon the Premier League would clamp down on it if a satellite catches? Don't have the rights. you could piece all those images together and make some highlights you know that's that's you know space piracy all that would happen though is somebody would just end up sending it to you and you'd have to work out what minute of the match it was oh it was playing yes that's the frontier yeah it's probably for the best i'm in a real rut with some of these at the moment i had to tweet one out and uh yeah people sending in clearly incorrect suggestions come on guys it's a um this thing is a similar phenomenon to when you go past a football stadium on a train or maybe even by car and you can get a sufficient angle to get a little peek into the ground and like the the den when you're going out the train on london bridge you're going south out of london bridge you can see clearly into that for a few seconds and if you if you time it right you do it on a match day you can you can see what's happening and it feels it feels very nice if you feel like yeah you've stolen something a little bit there but equally if you go past in the summer and the pitches in a state of disrepair it's not not as fun no not in its right mode king of punk 69 on reddit next charlie says when is the best moment for a manager to drop the i think you've seen the champions there or words of that effect after a valiant loss is there a statute of limitations can you go too early with this could you do it on day one charlie i mean it seems a bit i think that would be pretty bold yeah um there also has to be an element of like you would I don't think you just said about like Pep City as they went for their like fourth title or something.
36:09Because it's kind of like, well, yeah, we sort of all know that. Like I think there has to be like, I think like last season you might have done it with Liverpool in about October, say, when, you know, Arsenal and City had been the favourites for the title. Liverpool hadn't won it for a while. They've got a new manager, but they started really well. And I think at that point you could maybe pull the, I think you've seen the champions today. I mean, maybe you could go earlier. That would be bolder. But I think that's an acceptable time. because that's the point at which it's like, oh, you know, we're getting to around, like we're getting to double figures games in.
36:41This isn't just a sort of early season flash in the pan. This is serious stuff now.
36:47Charlie Eccleshare:Yeah, there probably isn't really a sweet spot for this necessarily, Dave, but King of Punk 69 goes on to say later in the season, they can of course switch to the old best team we've played all year, which I think is a classy thing to say as well. But it also, there's a bit of sort of reflected glory on your own team, isn't there? Sort of, you know, look at what we were up against today hey, we acquitted ourselves well. I think in this context, in the Premier League, like, yeah, I think it would be very early to say after the first game about any team, especially when the three favourites all won.
37:15But it feels like something that Kesey might say. He'd go early with it and go, you know, in the blog maybe, and go, I know it's early, but I think we've seen the champions there today. Ominous. Well, I can, yeah, and I think it, because I don't think we hear so much of it anymore. I think it is quite a like early-ish Premier League thing. in the post-match analysis when Andy's left the commentary booth and is now in the studio, I think that Kesey would pull the, have we just watched the Champions today, Andy? In a kind of like, you know, like laying it down. Could be. Yeah, could be. Almost like a broadcaster calling the election.
37:47Maybe. Can we go? Is it too early?
37:51Charlie Eccleshare:I do think week one is too early, but I do like the device, I have to say. Next up, MJ88 writes in, Dave, and says, Bonnie Blue has been doing so many interviews recently, it feels like her media run is reminiscent of a newly jobless manager after a long run of employment can we see bonnie blue on monday night football soon christ i don't think we want to see that do we bloody hell dave jones jamie carrigan bonnie blue the last half an hour of that episode would be oh god yeah just gonna have a look back at some of your some of your career highlights bonnie talk us through this one my goodness right yeah moving very swiftly on um alexander Pitt writes in, Charlie, and says, I'm watching Sunday League football in Salford and the keeper's just given away a corner to the opposition team for not releasing the ball.
38:33Charlie Eccleshare:I think the game's gone. It's permeated to Sunday League already. Brilliant. Just thinking how annoying that would be on both, like, yeah, if that's your team getting that done. The clampdown has gone that far, Dave. A mate of mine and listener, Will, messaged me over the weekend, said that he saw this in his game as well. And I think, actually, yeah, we hadn't, we should have thought about this. This was obviously how the ultimate repercussions of this rule change. They're not going to be felt at the top level. This is basically like foul throws again, isn't it? There's going to be over-officious refs at Sunday League counting every single time keepers have the balls and it's going to be loads of corners given for that.
39:13Charlie Eccleshare:Off the top of your head, Dave, would you say that the release time for goalkeepers and the ball at Sunday League is longer than in the Premier League? Given all the factors involved, do they release the ball slower at Sunday League? Are they more in danger? I don't think so. But maybe towards the end of the game, there is a bit of sort of copycat time-wasting creeping in. But yeah, you're right. It probably shouldn't happen, but it wouldn't surprise me if the refs are counting really quickly or something. Yeah, I get it. The arguments that are going to ensue after these can be brilliant. But Charlie, the first one in the Premier League this season came at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Tottenham versus Burnley, when Martin Dubravka was punished.
39:53Charlie Eccleshare:and I was fascinated to see how the players reacted to it. And Richarlison ran up to De Bravko and tried to get the ball off him because I think on that basis alone, I think Richarlison thought that he got an indirect free kick and he was trying to take it really quickly. There's no point in trying to get the ball really quickly for a corner, is there? Unless you're really trying to take a quick corner, which I don't think was in his mind. So I think just the players weren't really ready for it as a scenario at all. They haven't listened to the long briefings they must have had on it. Exactly.
40:21Charlie Eccleshare:They had an all-hands with PGMOL and they just got bored at the last bit. But yeah, we are advised, Dave, that this is not going to happen very often. The whole point of it is to deter situations like this and move the game on. But referees aren't really going to be trying to award as many corners as they can. Yeah. On another sort of refereeing note, the disallowed Eberiche Eze goal against Chelsea on Sunday. Did you know about that rule before? You're not allowed to be within a metre or a yard of the defensive wall as an attacking player. Yeah, I knew about it, but it's rare to see it sort of become visible and be sort of deployed as a rule.
40:58Charlie Eccleshare:But it was also quite an extreme example of the rule being sort of broken because obviously Gay, he just sort of basically just threw Corella into the wall and followed him along. It was a very violent sort of way of getting yourself closer to a wall. So in the last game of last season, Sunday League, we had a free kick outside the box. Oh, right. I did that. I just went and stood on the end of the wall thinking that I could do that just in case it dropped or whatever. And the referee moved me away and said, no, you've got to be a metre. And I think, yeah, there are quite lots of those little tiny little quirks that, again, you might in a weird way have more knowledge of the rules than professional players because of the way that Sunday League refs operate sometimes.
41:38Well, yeah, I mean, do you think, I mean, I don't even know if this is a rule at Premier League, but you know you can't say mine or leave it at amateur level. Is that a rule at Premier League level or is that just coached out? You know how proper footballers just know never to say that. They've got all these things that they should say.
41:54Charlie Eccleshare:There was a big controversy about this. I'm sure it happened in an EFL game in the last few seasons. Tell you who it was. Where an opposition... Go on. I'll tell you who it was. If you're talking about the same incident. 2019... No, was it 2017-18? Okay. Watford were beating Bournemouth at Bournemouth. and the ball was rolled to Nathaniel Chalabar in space in the area and one of Bournemouth's players, I think Charlie Daniels? I think it was Harry Arter, wasn't it? Harry Arter, yes. He said, mine or leave it. And I think he said, leave it. And Chalabar just like completely left it and the ball just rolled past him and Bournemouth got it.
42:32I don't know if he got booked or not, but I remember it being a big thing. Chalabar was going mad at the ref.
42:36Charlie Eccleshare:I don't think the referee gave it. Chalabar just ran after him. It was a bit like he'd attempted a Penenka and failed and Chalabar was running after him saying, you can't do that basically it was a real moral dilemma in in the way of being like you just you can't be doing that like that's basically beyond the pale you do not do that sort of thing um but yeah just a tremendous episode but yeah um players not up to speed with the rules okay we'll take a short break back in a moment
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44:47Charlie Eccleshare:Welcome back to Football Clichés. Hesitant to talk about this, but here it is. Nigel Farage has launched Reform FC with some football shirts. And, you know, trying to be balanced here, you know, from a clichés perspective, it was going so well for Farage right until the very end.
45:09we are reform fc and i'm proud to be its manager what a season we're having we're right at the top of the leaderboard we're nine points clear of our nearest rivals and i want you to get on board join the winning team we need your support leaderboard i'm not fighting for that charlie
45:27Charlie Eccleshare:leaderboard they fucked it pretty easy thing to rectify why have they done that they're going to be people walking among us with farage 10 football shirts that is astonishing i mean yeah in some ways i think it's it's like a relatively clever marketing thing and then when you realize the actual physical manifestation of it it's unbelievably bad i did see someone point out online earlier on that the double xl and triple xl sizes have sold out already which you know i'll say no more about that but um yeah seeing one in the wild will certainly be a moment are we like would people wear these two football matches like could it kick off places i don't know yeah i mean some places i don't know exactly what the rules are on those sorts of shirts but different grounds do have rules on you know certain things you can bring in of a political or national persuasion so it is a political show of political support isn't it but very much so is it objectively a bad shirt i don't know what to say like it looks a bit rubbish like cheap but But, you know, design-wise, I don't know.
46:26Charlie Eccleshare:Don't want to talk about it. Right, you might have thought that this would be a segue into Keys and Grey Corner. No, no. The political values don't align, actually. So we've got one more item for you. This came from an anonymous source at Stockley Park, Charlie. He says, I thought you'd be interested to know that the canteen at Stockley Park will be closed for four weeks as a result of a pest problem. Ooh, bad process. The problems deepen. Yeah, this was a little statement released by the canteen. We would like to thank everyone for their patience and understanding. As you may have seen, we had to close the canteen at very short notice this week.
47:01Charlie Eccleshare:Our canteen facility at Five Long Walk has a rating of five in terms of hygiene standards, the highest as determined by the local authority. The well-being of our colleagues and guests is always our priority. And in the interest of transparency, we decided to close as we were made aware of an issue with pests which needed us to take immediate action. We need to get this to Keezy. Someone needs to get this to Keezy. yeah he'll join the who's going to get who's going to get hold of this story this week I wonder perhaps that's why there were a few VAR cock-ups in the first weekend they weren't they weren't sufficiently well fed and watered I've gone on record on this podcast about the canteen at Stockley Park before we got opprobrium back now who's right that's all I'm saying I don't want to get too kesey about this anyway speaking of Premier League pests it's time for Keys in Grey Corner
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48:06Charlie Eccleshare:No theme tune change for us. It's Keys and Grey Corner, the first of the season. I want to take you back, though, a little bit to the UEFA Super Cup evening. Keys and Grey on Thomas Frank. I like him. Yeah? Agreed. It's a good appointment. Agreed. but go on I think he's over talked since getting the job and when he said I'm here to win the title I just winced because you're not Thomas but hold on he never met this year did he I don't care in any year well you don't know you do you don't
48:45Charlie Eccleshare:that's got everything I'd want in a sort of mid-level keys and grey exchange chuckle brothers at the end you do you don't you do you don't they do this all the time on being it's like how much the proportion of their coverage is taken up by them just batting forth the same opinion but um charlie i love it when he addresses football managers by their first name in a kind of hypothetical exchange it really puts them in their place doesn't it yeah he's got it's like he's got a direct line to all of them which i think in his mind he probably does over talked wow i like him but but so powerful exactly yeah Yeah, fast forward to Friday night then.
49:22Charlie Eccleshare:Richard Keyes raising the curtain on another Premier League season. No team has started more seasons defending the title than Liverpool. And no team has started more Premier League seasons together than Andy and myself. Now that's a start. Isn't it, Jack? That's a start. And here we go again. It's great to have you along. We're in for quite a night. So proud of themselves. they are never going to let go of the concept of them being the Premier League themselves are they so much so that Andy and his Keezy rather in his blog not the one that went up on Monday but last week he made a claim I think it was something like this is mine and Andy's 36th Premier League season together I mean there haven't been that many Premier League seasons so it's kind of like they're so iconic and intertwined with the Premier League that they've had more Premier League seasons than they have together then than there have been Premier League seasons it's 39 if you include our time at the original bsb what a run we've had you got what a run we've had yourselves exactly and those weren't premier league seasons and now we're the last man standing that's a source of huge pride to me we'll be offering the usual mix of grown-up chat for adults with the football who's that a digger who is it a digger oh that's surely a carrieger thing isn't it yeah maybe i think just generally sky yeah just you know all the larking about pandering well that was friday night let's fast forward slightly more to Saturday lunchtime and here is Richard Keyes raising the curtain on another Premier League season.
50:50Yeah one unsavoury incident aside that was a really good start to the Premier League season last night the champions starting the defence of their trophy no team in English football has defended a title more often than Liverpool and no TV team has presented more Premier League football than Andy and myself it's just absolutely lovely to be back for another one.
51:10Charlie Eccleshare:Just reuse the same line can't do that As I often tell you, Adam, it could always be someone's first time watching or listening. OK, Keezy's a pro. Yeah, fair enough. Yeah, go on then. Doesn't need any encouragement to talk about himself. To his blog then, he had a kind of tone setter for the season blog the other day. The opening line, nothing is certain except death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin, 1789. Not quite true though, is it? if franklin had been alive today he would have almost certainly added and relegation for clubs coming up from the championship benjamin uh how do you uh how do you think burley will get on this i think it'll be fine putting the date in why do you need 1789 yeah he's obviously just looked it up and was quite proud of himself oh god he loves a quote he loves his history history buff He published just before we recorded, 10 minutes before we started recording, Charlie, Kesey unleashed his first Premier League review of the season.
52:15Charlie Eccleshare:And I've never been so sure of anything in my life than him spelling Tajani Rinder's surname incorrectly. So close, just an errant eye, and you can understand why. But yeah, that was never going to happen, was it? Yeah, I look forward to seeing the variants in the coming weeks. Yeah. The headline for the blog on Monday, the 18th of August, It's a nice one, really, to get things going properly this season from Keezy. It's simple. Bayan Deer was fouled. And then he just goes on to explain it again in his opening line. Good old Keezy. Right. Thanks to you, Dave Walker. Thank you. Thanks to you, Charlie Eccleshare.
52:52Charlie Eccleshare:Thank you. Thanks to everyone for listening. We'll be back on Thursday. See you then.
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Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: Match of the Day's non-evolution, the opening-weekend Premier League verdicts on who to fear for/who'll be fine, the concept of “knocking on the door" of the opposition, a low-key early contender for "game’s gone" moment of the season, a finely-poised "watching football on holiday" dilemma, refereeing clampdowns down in Sunday league, Nigel Farage's unconvincing football campaign and Stockley Park's latest crisis.
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