Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker explore the glorious and unique language of football: the words, the phrases, the mannerisms and, above all, the clichés. Visit nordvpn.com/cliches to get four extra months on a two-year plan with NordVPN
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Welcome to the back catalogue of Adam Hurrey's Football Cliches podcast exploring the glorious and unique language of football: the words, the phrases, the mannerisms and, above all, the clichés. Find the new podcast feed by searching for 'Football Cliches' wherever you usually listen, or by following this link: https://lnk.to/kdWOMyTA
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A dos de l’oiseau Sankofa, cet oiseau mythique qui vole vers l’avant, la tête tournée vers l’arrière, portant dans son bec un œuf qui symbole du futur, ce podcast vous emmène à chaque épisode dans l’histoire glorieuse ( ou pas) du continent africain. Développez votre connaissance de l’histoire africaine afin de mieux comprendre le continent aujourd’hui.
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Cut the Cliches looks to get behind the jargon and buzzwords of an industry - every fortnight we invite a guest to guide us through their field.
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On the back of the bird Sankofa, this mythical bird that flies forward, head turned back, carrying in its beak an egg that symbolizes the future, this podcast takes you to every episode in the glorious history of African continent. Develop your knowledge of African history to better understand the continent today.
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”Snuffing out the danger", pre-match strolling & drinking the opposition's water: The listeners' loves & hates
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56:43Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker entertain this month's listener entries for Mesut Haaland Dicks, as the Clichés faithful nominate their niche footballing fascinations and irritations. Among the selections are the curious tradition of a visiting team's pre-match stroll around the pitch, the reactions of fans behind a goal observed d…
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90/10 tackles, Danish player ratings & how to board a train like a 30-goal striker
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49:43Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the ongoing inability of the USA to put together a decent football team, a possible new world record for away fans not realising their team have scored at the opposite end, the Danish media's absurd player-ratings systems and niche player-on-playe…
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Woke metrics, Erling Haaland's Pro Evo name & our niche England predictions
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58:46Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and Nick Miller. On the agenda: Erling Haaland's Pro Evo name on Pointless, Wilfried Zaha confronts some modern footballing discourse head-on, Patrik Schick's uniquely selfish attacking statistics this season, a Europa League legend bows out, a pundit finally confronts th…
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The Carabao springboard, more musical commentary & the most Richard Keys-sounding tweet of all time
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46:07Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the League Cup's modern status as a "springboard" for its winners, Gary Neville stealing Peter Drury's lines, Dan Burn and the "what a week he's having" threshold, the German concept of a "Sunday goal", some beautiful commentary vibrato, and Donca…
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Knowing your way around the Champions League, German woodwork & England's future one-cap wonders
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1:07:22Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the near-universal enjoyment of Liverpool vs PSG, second-tier German woodwork noises, some fascinating BBC archive content involving some disgruntled 1970s Match of the Day viewers, the most common object used to explain the offside law an…
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The whole 11.2 yards, DNA-level Lampardian Transitions - and Keys & Gray become one
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1:00:17Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: a very appropriate Glastonbury slot for one football-adjacent artist, Sky's obsession with Arsenal's 11.2-yard wall at a Manchester United free kick, LinkedIn's latest football breakthrough, a tremendous Footballers’ Names in Things from Down Unde…
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The Pure Discourse XI
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1:24:21Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker to pick a lineup of players who have provoked the most endless wider debate about their on-pitch roles. The selection process takes in the precise moment a certain type of goalkeeper became brutally obsolete, a stand-out choice at right-back, inverted left-backs, overadventurous centre-ba…
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How to time a red card, penalty run-ups & commentator Robyn Cowen voice-controls a stadium
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46:24Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: some entry-level superlatives for Lionel Messi, Jean-Philippe Mateta and the "if you did that to someone on the street" test, some hugely undignified refereeing body language on the way for 2025/26, some technical issues with declaring "the fastes…
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The Football Cliches Quiz XVIII: It Was What It Was
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1:53:44The Football Clichés Quiz returns, with the pod aiming to end their dismal run of trivia form against Jonathan Wilson's football history podcast It Was What It Was The questions include: Bundesliga goals of the month, World Cup final equalisers, Englishmen abroad, Hungarian hat-tricks, a man who played against Kevin Keegan AND Cristiano Ronaldo, Eu…
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Champions-elect, relegated Rishi Sunak & Premier League managers with Athletic subscriptions
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48:00Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: whether Liverpool can now be described as "champions-elect", Dion Dublin struggles with a meandering property analogy, a listener fact-checks a Match of the Day joke about Rishi Sunak, a slightly-too-niche football reference on a mainstream TV qui…
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How to celebrate an own goal & ball-boy etiquette: The listeners' loves & hates
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56:34Adam Hurrey, David Walker and Nick Miller entertain this month's listener entries for Mesut Haaland Dicks, as the Clichés faithful nominate their niche footballing fascinations and irritations. Among the selections are the various types of football-related social media profile pictures, the efficient language of mid-game team-mate praise, the corre…
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Chuckling stadiums, Things-in-Chief and, finally, some actual whispering of it quietly
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56:19Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the rare sound of a football crowd chuckling in unison, a definitive list of football’s acceptable “things-in-chief”, a deep dive into the nuances of Jude Bellingham’s La Liga dissent, some classic-style 96th-minute olé-ing from Argentina, Manches…
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Crosses from the 1990s, baseball scores & the death of the managerial "war cry”
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58:39Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: Champions League broadcasting quirks, Alan Shearer and the extinct art of crossing the ball, the most prefix-defying clubs of the 92, the rise and fall of managers "issuing a war cry" and much more. Meanwhile, the panel speculate on what w…
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Nursery rhymes with Fletch, Clark Kent goalkeeping & under-12s away-day cauldrons
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56:13Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: accidental nursery rhymes in Champions League commentary, a new Premier League low bar for irony, whether Southampton 0 Burnley 1 counts as an FA Cup upset, some inconvenient truths about Manchester City's trip to Leyton Orient, unexpected Portugu…
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The Football Cliches Quiz XVII: The Commentators
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1:30:43The Football Clichés Quiz returns for another clash of niche football trivia, as the pod take on Match of the Day commentators James Fielden, Mark Scott and Chris Wise. The questions include: problematically-named second-tier Peruvians, Serie A broadcasters, fraudulent Fernandeses, Brentford substitutes of the early 2020s, Harry Redknapp’s go-to hi…
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The "17th chess piece", the death of the onion bag & coded messages to the board
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1:01:21Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: Fabian Hurzeler upgrades the traditional football "basics", darts and chess offer their versions of "the 12th man", an unexpected superstar signing for Club Brugge, Premier League players wrestle with some traditional English football phrases, and…
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Referees vs The Limelight, passages of terror & Matt 1 Hernia 0
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46:32Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: yet another new rival for the "corridor of uncertainty", the media taking Ruben Amorim slightly too literally, a listener's deciding an appropriate scoreline for his hernia operation, more Ligue 1 voiceover curiosity, and a tribute to the …
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