Football Cliches

By Adam Hurrey & Goalhanger

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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

Episode Date
The Football Cliches Quiz XVI: Career We Go - The Rematch
Dec 24, 2024
Cliches do Mesut Haaland Dicks: Adam, Charlie & Dave’s footballing loves & hates
Dec 19, 2024
The blip-to-crisis benchmark, Comedy Central defending & Australian red card music
Dec 17, 2024
Commentators sampled in experimental French pop & the ultimate generic multi-club ownership group
Dec 12, 2024
Unexpected Sutton, diags on MOTD & the “good time to play them” threshold
Dec 10, 2024
The best 9.3% of the FA Cup draw, the "stand named after you" threshold & Richard Keys on cars
Dec 05, 2024
An educated left head, the first goal ever uploaded to YouTube & the "big-money signing" formula
Dec 03, 2024
Sunday League set-piece routines, the "olé" threshold & mistimed minute's applauses: The listeners' loves & hates
Nov 28, 2024
5.54 seconds of away-goal confusion, footballers in US T-junctions and the official Keys & Gray app
Nov 26, 2024
The Bosman legacy, optimum camera angles & double saves, with Luke Moore
Nov 21, 2024
59 consecutive hat-tricks, yo-yo countries and the first-ever usage of "tippy-tappy football”
Nov 19, 2024
Deodorant ads, Don(ald) Goodman & "The Deeney Guy": Cliches meets Sky Sports commentator Bill Leslie
Nov 14, 2024
xG meets crime dramas & the Sunday League to Premier League hat-trick pathway
Nov 12, 2024
The Vitality Stadium swing state, Noel Gallagher's co-comms & the "big five" of cheese
Nov 07, 2024
”Still 0-0, lads!", a man named Hattrick & the mid-2010s throw-in scandal
Nov 05, 2024
Curses vs Hoodoos, journeyman film directors & Keysey's philosophers
Oct 30, 2024
Jack Reacher's Villa 5-a-side team, two Andy Townsends & the most darts-looking PL manager
Oct 29, 2024
Styling out fake injuries & "How long ref?!": The listeners' loves & hates (feat. Doc Brown)
Oct 23, 2024
Salah's Sunday 4.30pm supremacy, Fred Again's biscuits & going down like a game of Jenga
Oct 22, 2024
The definitive game for every football scoreline
Oct 17, 2024
Armchair admirals, Roberto Carlos darts & "Doing a [Club X]”
Oct 14, 2024
Cliches vs The Football Ramble - The Football Cliches Quiz XV
Oct 10, 2024
Liverpool's radar status, lusty bangers & Richard Keys’ 12,476-game TV marathon
Oct 08, 2024
First names on shirts, Footy Scran technicalities & the FPL universe, with Ellis Platten
Oct 03, 2024
An incredible football birthday card, Dutch league-table madness & Mick McCarthy in the jungle
Sep 30, 2024
Football's shortest spell, the "in charge" threshold & the first half/second half vibe experiment
Sep 26, 2024
Beating the commentators to the punch and the ideal conditions for "nothing doing": The Listeners' fascinations and irritations
Sep 24, 2024
Footballing military ranks, Carabao chaos & a phrase only Sean Dyche would use
Sep 19, 2024
Jamie Carragher's match-ball voice, promotion fodder & three-sided fortresses
Sep 16, 2024
Carsley culture, scorelines you'd take before the game & the most left-footed Premier League club
Sep 11, 2024
”Welcome to League C", pointless penalty shootouts & the connoisseur's referee whistle
Sep 10, 2024
Silky Toblerones, Serbian football small talk & telepathic right-backs
Sep 05, 2024
Cometh the minute, poetic Andy Townsend and Keysey's quote-tweet masterpiece
Sep 04, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: The minutes left vs blood pressure ratio
Aug 28, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: Sparking a stroll, rickets vs howlers, and the Champions League anthem revamp
Aug 27, 2024
Players spotting themselves on the big screen & ironic referee cheering: The listeners' loves & hates
Aug 21, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: Big nutmegs, premature pacesetters & footballing disciples
Aug 19, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: Transfer limbo, Romania '94 small talk & Merson does Strictly
Aug 14, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: Sleeping horses and Harry Kane's complex classy touch
Aug 12, 2024
The "Summer 2024 Transfers That Just Feel So Right" XI
Aug 07, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: Carbon-copy commentary & where clubs store their pre-season minutes
Aug 05, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: Footballers with Olympicy names & Unexpected Kevin Keegan
Jul 31, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: Steve Coogan is playing Mick McCarthy in a film, what else is there to talk about?
Jul 29, 2024
The Football Clichés Quiz XIV: Cliches vs The Sweeper
Jul 25, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: "A real plomb", big-match dust-settling & the worst football Q&A night ever
Jul 22, 2024
Squad arrival videos, MOTM substitutes & watching football on holiday: The listeners' loves & hates
Jul 17, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: Unhinged pre-match montages & Heartbreak vs Heartache (2024 edition)
Jul 15, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: From Talksport to NATO - a cultural review of England 2 Netherlands 1
Jul 11, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: Euro 2024's future Premier League forgettables & the Jordan Pickford penalty-heroics threshold
Jul 08, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: Misstiano Penaldo, "The Misquoted One” & arm-wrestling with Martin Keown
Jul 04, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: The England clamour table, bending your run & dancing on the streets of City X
Jul 01, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: The unifying experience of watching England struggle to play football
Jun 27, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: Martin Keown's GCSEs, Pro Evo Jules Kounde & when nations hold their breath
Jun 24, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: The vocabulary of an England group-stage draw & Euro 2024’s Commentator’s Curse
Jun 21, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: The Euros that didn't need to burst into life
Jun 17, 2024
The Pure European Championship XI
Jun 13, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: 1.4 billion years of hurt, Grealish's mayo hell & the opening-game formula
Jun 10, 2024
Capos, club mentalities & calculating England's actual years of hurt: The listeners' loves & hates
Jun 05, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: Mourinho in Turkey, 71 billion calories & a football club every 2.24 seconds
Jun 03, 2024
Clicheship Years: 2023/24
May 30, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: Double swoops, double saves & Down Under with Eddie Howe
May 27, 2024
The Football Clichés Quiz XIII: Cliches vs Dial F for Football
May 23, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: Pep's ice cream van, popping up with a goal & an "absolute football club”
May 20, 2024
Hi-tech hoardings & tactically illiterate World XIs: The listeners' loves & hates
May 15, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: "Why can't they go on and win it?"
May 13, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: Mid-2000s Premier League antiques & how the square goalpost met its end
May 09, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: Four-star Haaland & the most elaborate football analogy in modern politics
May 07, 2024
Gary Lineker meets Cliches: Why aren't strikers rounding the goalkeeper any more?
May 02, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: Winning the "hard way" and the Missing Piece of the Jigsaw XI
Apr 29, 2024
The Football Cliches Quiz XII - The Totally Football Show
Apr 25, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: "Some bloke sat in a booth near the M4 with a fancy protractor"
Apr 22, 2024
All-English European ties & post-goal iPad analysis: The listeners' loves & hates
Apr 17, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: "What a horse he was, by the way"
Apr 15, 2024
Sizeable hillocks & nightclubbing with McCoist: Jon Champion does Mesut Haaland Dicks
Apr 11, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: James Ward-Prowse Territories & hasty Panenkas
Apr 08, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: Elland Road trigonometry & the Footballers Called Pete crisis
Apr 03, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: We've said 'come and listen to this podcast' and you've said 'thank you very much, I will’
Apr 01, 2024
The Football Cliches Quiz #11
Mar 28, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: Among the assists, prime players & the tormentor-in-chief scale
Mar 26, 2024
Centre-backs leading the line, overlapping kick-off time angst, and long-range near post goal aesthetics
Mar 21, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: Pivotal wins, corners in a dangerous position, and the Factory of Sadness
Mar 19, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: Agemates, locksmiths & Alan Curbishley's garden
Mar 14, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: "Over to you [Title Rival X]" & Knuckleball on Corrie
Mar 12, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: Great White Shark 0 Killer Whale 1 (72 mins)
Mar 07, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: the Haaland missed sitter incredulity
Mar 05, 2024
The Football Cliches Quiz X
Feb 29, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: G-Nev's adjectives, cynical finishes & gobbling up chances
Feb 27, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: Lithuanian ultimate frisbee & how to divide up a league table
Feb 22, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: Sensory football, a 27-second bright start & the war on socks
Feb 20, 2024
”Genuine height", European banana skins and the listeners' fascinations & irritations
Feb 15, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: Midfield "quarterbacks" & Montell Jordan's right-backs
Feb 13, 2024
Les Dennis, paintbrush volleys & the Quiz Question XI
Feb 08, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: Horror shows, title blows and “different custard”
Feb 06, 2024
Ref sandwiches, "teapot finishes" & the Premier League Mid-Point XI
Feb 01, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: FA Cup illusions & Andy Townsend’s octopus goalie
Jan 30, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: The Lampardian Transition, 2014-2024
Jan 25, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: Footholds, foreign contingents & death metal midfielders
Jan 23, 2024
The 'How Did [Player X] Never Play for [Club Y]?' XI
Jan 18, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: The most Premier League fixture there never was
Jan 16, 2024
A superb footballer name, defenders shooting from 30 yards and throw-in paranoia
Jan 11, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: The longest 3.85 seconds in football history
Jan 09, 2024
The Adjudication Panel: Washing machines that sound like referees
Jan 04, 2024
The Football Cliches Quiz IX
Dec 26, 2023
The Adjudication Panel: Are we all truly ready for a Club World Cup?
Dec 21, 2023
The Adjudication Panel: Glovesmiths and parking the bus at the Battle of Kursk
Dec 19, 2023
Centre-backs on the wing & "comunicado oficial"
Dec 14, 2023
The Adjudication Panel: "The Mesut Ozil of public transportation"
Dec 12, 2023
Copycat knee-sliders & kicking balls into skips: Chloe Petts does Mesut Haaland Dicks
Dec 07, 2023
The Adjudication Panel: "He hit it where Grandma hides the jam jars"
Dec 05, 2023
The Adjudication Panel: Can a goalkeeper be a wonderkid?
Nov 30, 2023
The Adjudication Panel: The things in football you can 'ooze'
Nov 28, 2023
Football freestylers & Sunday league rondo etiquette
Nov 23, 2023
The Adjudication Panel: 'The Scott McTominay of antibiotics'
Nov 21, 2023
The Pure EFL XI
Nov 16, 2023
The Adjudication Panel: How many errors make a comedy of errors?
Nov 14, 2023
Gary Neville's parrots, with George Lewis
Nov 09, 2023
The dying art of managers moving upstairs, the 'revelation' threshold, and some low-key FA Cup magic
Nov 07, 2023
England's Euro 2024 clamour forecast and a Premier League quiz for the ages
Nov 02, 2023
The most comprehensive definition of 'ghosting in' of all time
Oct 31, 2023
The Pure La Liga XI
Oct 26, 2023
Sean Dyche's Glasto, cheat codes and a data dive into 'too little, too late'
Oct 24, 2023
Background pub TV games, flip flaps & the quiet dignity of a club-branded mug
Oct 18, 2023
Electric in the air, the 'chipped in with X goals' threshold & Our Summer With Richard Keys
Oct 17, 2023
The Football Clichés podcast is back! (Trailer)
Oct 11, 2023