For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, David Walker and Adam Leventhal meet for the final Adjudication Panel of 2021. The latest agenda includes: Boris Johnson's "Mourinho season", the Serie A co-commentary moment we all wanted to happen and a forensic examination of Brendan Rodgers’ pre-match patting of Eddie Howe’s upper torso. Meanwhile, the panel react to another astonishing world record for post-joke co...

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and James Maw are joined by Michael Cox ​for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks. Among Michael's selections for his footballing loves and hates are the basic geographical knowledge that the game gifts you, the 3pm blackout (and the guilty pleasure of illegal livestreaming) and the desperate attempts to make football shirts fashionable. Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker assemble for another Adjudication Panel. On the agenda this time: some blissfully unaware Serie A commentators, the standards of modern chess punditry, and whether the verb "roofed" should be welcomed into the goalscoring vernacular. Meanwhile, the panel thrash out the precise definition of a footballing "shop window" and there's a 49...

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker meet for the Adjudication Panel once again. In their in-tray this time: Professor Jonathan Van-Tam's lengthiest football analogy so far, Sean Dyche refusing to engage with the Premier League news cycle, Amazon Prime's refreshing commentary performances and why data can reveal the earliest moment a player should "take one for the team"...

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, David Walker and Nick Miller gather for a jam-packed Adjudication Panel. On this week's agenda: the Highbury Screamer lives on, the precise minimum distance for a shot to be met with "...and why not?" from a commentator, yet another player-ratings scandal and Graham Potter taking on his Brighton boo boys. Meanwhile, the panel try and nail down the earliest date that car...

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and David Walker are joined by broadcaster Danny Kelly ​for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks. Among Danny's selections for his footballing loves and hates are the romance of floodlit matches, the glorious club-name prefixes of the Communist era, the sweet spot of football management simulators and a novel solution for limelight-seeking referees. Hosted on Acast....

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker form the Adjudication Panel once again. On the agenda this time: Greece and Britain's Elgin Marbles negotiations being reported in transferspeak, stadium announcers going beyond the call of duty and the very precise language of the relegation zone. Meanwhile, the panel discuss - in depth - how many "gears" a team can shift into during...

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and Charlie Eccleshare are joined by Premier League defender turned broadcaster Nedum Onuoha ​for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks. Among Nedum's nominations for his footballing fascinations and irritations are last-minute winners, outspoken pundits who have forgotten what it's like to be a player and the lack of authenticity on footballers' social media account...

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, David Walker and Charlie Eccleshare convene for another edition of the Adjudication Panel. On the latest agenda: updating the "managerial merry-go-round", analysing Harry Maguire's loaded goal celebration and the horrifying spectacle of a team forming their own guard of honour. Meanwhile, the panel explore the mandatory things a new manager must say at their unveiling t...

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and Nick Miller put together the most textbook Premier League weekend schedule: from Friday night under the lights at the Emirates, the most Saturday 12.30pm kick-off possible, Manchester City 5 Burnley 0, the phantom untelevised 2pm Sunday game that you’d actually rather be watching instead, futile calls for refereeing consistency and...Monday night...

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, David Walker and Charlie Eccleshare meet for another Adjudication Panel. The latest agenda features a salsa-flavoured cover of World in Motion, a definitive explanation of “the lion’s share of possession”, the very specific scenarios in which players do not “cover themselves in glory”, some premature festive co-commentary and the Vatican City’s FA Cup kicking off in ear...

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, David Walker and Nick Miller explore some more glorious footballing niches. This time, Football Clichés finds itself in a podcast awards Group of Death, the "political football analogy" silly season is officially in full swing and it's that time of year again: the release of the Premier League's yellow ball. Meanwhile, the panel explore just what constitutes a manager h...

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, David Walker and James Maw form this week's Adjudication Panel. The latest agenda includes unexpected celebrities offering their takes on hot football topics, the legally-mandated contents of Antonio Conte’s Tottenham “in-tray” and some people taking Jeff Stelling’s impending Soccer Saturday exit far, far too seriously… Meanwhile, the panel assess a potential new world...

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and Nick Miller revisit one of the cultural cornerstones of Premier League history and attempt to compile a line-up of mid-2000s talent that somehow never turned out for Sam Allardyce at the Reebok Stadium. Ruffling the big clubs' hypothetical feathers are barrel-chested Danish internationals, semi-retired Iberian centre-halves, a highly functional mi...

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and Nick Miller bring you another instalment of the Adjudication Panel. This week's big questions include: Can a game be so bad that it gets both managers sacked? How late is it acceptable to say “this has got 0-0 written all over it”? And what precisely does a football match need to have “had everything”? Meanwhile, the panel examine another classic...

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and David Walker are joined by Premier League midfielder turned Sky Sports presenter David Prutton for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks. Prutton's nominations for his love and hates of football include the rare sight of a diving header, team-mates arguing on the pitch, lazy punditry phrases and the scourge of stadiums playing music after goals. Hosted on Acast....

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, David Walker and Nick Miller convene for a jam-packed edition of the Adjudication Panel. This week's agenda includes: Neil Warnock's Forrest Gump impression, calculating the maximum number of times two teams could theoretically play each other in a single season, 40-goal thrillers in the 16th tier of the English pyramid and some truly excellent TV-drama football small t...

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and Charlie Eccleshare are joined by Ralph Ineson, star of The Office, Game of Thrones and the Harry Potter films, for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks. Ralph's loves, hates, fascinations and irritations of football include: the joy (and cruelty) of nutmegs, touching the match ball when it flies into the stand, the irritation of short corners and co-commentators...

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, David Walker and Nick Miller assemble for another Adjudication Panel. On the agenda: Ally McCoist's international co-commentary masterclass, Steve Bruce's inevitable next career step and a worrying new Italian offside experiment. Meanwhile, the panel examine the practical and psychological challenges of a very specific form of football consumption: watching a game at th...

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker assemble for another Adjudication Panel. On the agenda this time: Troy Deeney's autobiography emoji, the credentials of "Quality Street" as a long-term successor to the corridor of uncertainty, Everton fans tracking sand dredgers in the Irish Sea, and when footballers' names appear unexpectedly in song lyrics. Meanwhile, there's a bri...

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and Charlie Eccleshare chalk up a century of episodes as Jamie Carragher joins for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks. Carragher's selection of footballing fascinations and irritations include centre-backs being sent up front, the excitement that comes with signing a star of a major tournament and a truly underreported crime: fans applauding strikers who block cle...

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Jack Pitt-Brooke and Alex Kay-Jelski pick apart the often awkward but occasionally glorious genre of football headlines, from "Super Caley go ballistic, Celtic are atrocious" to "Lionel Flair!", via the strict rules that govern the evergreen "Z, Y and Z" long-read headline format. Plus: the definitive guide to words that only appear at the top of football stories - but...

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, David Walker and Nick Miller meet for another Adjudication Panel. On the agenda this week: the most relatable piece of co-commentary ever recorded, Jonathan Pearce's one-man mission to get men back on the posts at corners, the phrase "six-pointer" goes into Europe and the campaign to start using the word "doubler" officially kicks off. Meanwhile, the podcast's first-eve...

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and David Walker are joined by writer Clive Martin for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks. Martin's loves, hates, fascinations and irritations of football include: Premier League players visiting kids in hospital, teams capitulating after half-time, the failing national institution that is Arsenal Football Club and the curious career trajectory of Andre Villas-Boa...

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker gather for the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda this week: Phil Jones finally gets his deserved (and very detailed) revenge on the keyboard warriors, why Alan Smith has been using the word "footover" on Sky Sports since at least 2014, and your tales of distinctly PG-rated matchday outbursts at players and referees. Meanwhile, the pan...