For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive

by The Athletic
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Soccer #179

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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Recent Episodes
  • Football Clichés has moved! Here’s where to find us…
    Oct 12, 2023 – 01:20
  • The end of an era
    May 31, 2023 – 01:00:19
  • The Football Clichés Quiz VIII
    May 25, 2023 – 47:04
  • Crosses left on the doorstep, egg all over his shirt & the Phantom Drury Effect
    May 22, 2023 – 51:35
  • Suitcase moods, goalkeepers on fire & VAR eavesdropping
    May 18, 2023 – 45:53
  • The trajectory of a ping, going down with a whimper & the "knows the club" coefficient
    May 16, 2023 – 47:57
  • Base layers, the "WELL IN!" threshold & the language of champions-elect
    May 11, 2023 – 41:40
  • Old-fashioned No 9s, seeing your name in lights and the spice-rack league table
    May 9, 2023 – 43:36
  • Title-race non-twists, ChatGPT does MHD & pinpointing the start of the 'modern era'
    May 4, 2023 – 44:29
  • The greatest moment in football podcasting history
    May 2, 2023 – 52:51
  • 'He's got his goal', the 'family club' criteria & ChatGPT's Streets Won't Forget XI
    Apr 27, 2023 – 43:06
  • Sting in the stands, quickfire topical chanting & the velocity of a wounded duck
    Apr 25, 2023 – 47:41
  • The Overmythologised XI
    Apr 20, 2023 – 01:04:09
  • Beginner-level knee-slides, ChatGPKeys & the Match of the Day seagull
    Apr 18, 2023 – 42:26
  • Pure Cliches: What makes a stadium a cauldron? & mundane FIFA animations
    Apr 16, 2023 – 18:35
  • 5-a-side shouters, relentless Continental whistling... and what's the best name for a second division?
    Apr 13, 2023 – 52:36
  • Title race in their hands, the world at their feet & the streets forgetting Teemu Pukki
    Apr 11, 2023 – 40:49
  • Match vs Game and the most 5-a-side Premier League goal ever
    Apr 6, 2023 – 48:59
  • No Context Peter Drury, a spate of sackings & leaving everything out there
    Apr 4, 2023 – 45:15
  • Pure Cliches: the 'on toast' threshold & the great Three Lions mystery uncovered
    Apr 2, 2023 – 15:50
  • International ringers, Messi vs stewards and footballers' home museums, with Max Fosh
    Mar 30, 2023 – 55:53
  • Smashing records, The [Player X] Show & Xerxes' big-game bottlers
    Mar 28, 2023 – 37:14
  • Pure Cliches: Unfinished Business and Kevin Keegan at the Meat Management Industry Awards
    Mar 26, 2023 – 18:29
  • The purest Soccer AM lineup, the Messi of Maths and the tidiest Premier League player
    Mar 23, 2023 – 43:58
  • Fictional football shirts & the most internationally eligible player of all time
    Mar 21, 2023 – 40:41
  • Pure Cliches: Basement boys & the Europa League XI
    Mar 19, 2023 – 13:40
  • Childish stadium nicknames, classy Sunday League touches & the "perfect" goal
    Mar 16, 2023 – 54:58
  • Cracked MOTD badges, natty free kicks and the reigning Voice of Football
    Mar 14, 2023 – 51:40
  • Pure Cliches: Dreamland, solo efforts, and "no disrespect to egg"
    Mar 12, 2023 – 13:05
  • Dion Dublin's Blackpool boasts & the most Premier League club yet to play in the Premier League
    Mar 9, 2023 – 51:20
  • Martin Tyler vs Peter Drury: The Bake-Off
    Mar 7, 2023 – 49:27
  • The Football Clichés Quiz VII
    Mar 2, 2023 – 44:28
  • League Cup champions don't exist & the big upfield/downfield debate
    Feb 28, 2023 – 50:13
  • Pure Cliches: Greater Goalmouth & Elis James' Generic Crowd Noise
    Feb 25, 2023 – 06:56
  • Football through a pub window, "Sign him up!" and transfer-rumour Photoshopping
    Feb 23, 2023 – 59:45
  • Unexpected centre-backs in Frasier and a scandalous football TV quiz question
    Feb 21, 2023 – 54:54
  • Pure Cliches: The Sam Allardyce XI & Cometh The Hour-gate
    Feb 19, 2023 – 09:57
  • Sunday League pre-seasons and how to 'bring the ball under your spell', with Josh Pugh
    Feb 16, 2023 – 01:03:37
  • Self-appointed visitors, Carlo Ancelotti for England and Match of Day's canned laughter
    Feb 14, 2023 – 01:00:11
  • Boring on-pitch jobs, late fitness tests and artificial atmospheres, with Nick Hancock
    Feb 9, 2023 – 58:57
  • Thrashing thresholds and the most culturally significant Harry Kane goal of all
    Feb 7, 2023 – 59:35
  • The Pure Serie A XI
    Feb 2, 2023 – 59:47
  • Picking up the pieces in the cathedrals of football
    Jan 31, 2023 – 39:56
  • Interrogating celebrity fans and post-victory highlights binging, with Matt Lucas & Elis James
    Jan 26, 2023 – 43:08
  • Deconstructing (and reassembling) the most "silencing the critics" goal celebration of all time
    Jan 24, 2023 – 56:47
  • FA Cup sex noises, combined XIs and the elegant pointlessness of centre circles
    Jan 19, 2023 – 54:29
  • Lovely little NBA players and outfieldery-looking goalkeepers
    Jan 17, 2023 – 57:43
  • The "dog on pitch" protocol with Duncan Alexander
    Jan 12, 2023 – 01:02:16
  • Is it better to be a carthorse or a donkey?
    Jan 10, 2023 – 01:01:56
  • There or thereabouts, how to let your country down and low-key football inventions
    Jan 5, 2023 – 01:01:23
Recent Reviews
  • mattgiglio
    Lovely, nerdy, granular.
    The football pod to which I most look forward through the week. Brilliant nerdy stuff. Even though I don’t buy Adam doing a better help ad, not his fault mind you.
  • Nico Corbo
    License to shoot ?
    Brilliant podcast as usual lads. As an Amercian, I can forgive Leon Osman for the plum incident because i’ve always heard it as “plum” as well. It fits the peach and stone fruit category of football speak as well. Perhaps plum of a finish will catch on. Also, you all were my introduction to “for my sins” as a figure of speech too. So… thank you for that. As for my contribution to the discussion, surely a player can have license to shoot. Licenses go beyond spatiality such as license to roam or get forward. You can have a license to shoot or commit as action as well. Generally this is the license that can be attributed to strikers/forwards.
  • meb295
    How did I now know about this show?
    This is podcast is pure un-cut football pedantry and I cannot get enough, for my sins.
  • 15Letters
    Best quiz format out there.
    Every podcast likes to do quiz shows. This show continues to raise the level of competition. Hysterical. Brilliant.
  • Jjjhoyt
    Great Vibe
    Casual soccer fan here, its as much about language and egos as it is about the sport. Has made me pay way far more attention to the language around me in daily life. I hang onto every word but also will relisten to old episodes to help fall asleep, because the general vibe is so good and not dealing with things like the end of the world or politics etc.
  • frolichemann
    Unique content
    This is a refreshing podcast with topics that are tangential and/or parallel to broader stories in the world of football, and it’s quite funny too. Highly recommend it
  • Zachmmason
    Best pod
    My favorite podcast. Eagerly await every Thursday for this reason
  • Sue D'Nimh
    Might as well call it English Football Cliches
    Would it kill you to have a non-UK panelist on? It is a global game after all.
  • manal.21sinha
    The quiz episode was such a laugh!
    Lovely stuff
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