Football Cliches

Football Cliches

Tom Whiter
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Deconstructing the gloriously unique language of football – the words, the phrases and the tiny things you didn't think you cared about – with Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare & David Walker.
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Episodes (51)

Football Cliches

The Football Cliches Quiz XXI: Libero

September 04, 2025 1h 43m
In another superb trivia clash, the 21st installment of the Football Clichés Quiz sees Adam, Charlie and Dave take on Jonathan Wilson, Jack Pitt-Brooke and John Brewin from the Libero podcast.

The...
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Slot's embarrassment of riches, hyperliteral stadium noises & Zidane vs Dyche

September 01, 2025 53m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by David Walker and Nick Miller. On the agenda: Troy Deeney and Joel Ward mangle their punditry clichés, a highly appropriate sound is heard after...
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Panenka-triggered goalkeepers & empty-net warm-up anxieties: The listeners' loves & hates

August 28, 2025 56m
Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare, 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...
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Dyche goes dating, Dean Ashton's defensive doughnut & textbook piledrivers

August 26, 2025 48m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the Stockley Park canteen saga rumbles on, inexplicable TV cameos from Sean Dyche, the closest...
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Champion flatulence, football punditry sat navs & Sean Dyche X Big Sam

August 20, 2025 43m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: Jon Champions lowers the commentary tone in the Champions League qualifiers, Sky Sports'...
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Vertical highlights, Farage's footballspeak & Stockley Park's canteen crisis

August 18, 2025 52m
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...
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8.55 seconds in Wrexham, Celeste's Sky Sports flame is out & niche 2025-26 predictions

August 13, 2025 48m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the nichest world record in football is shattered once again, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink's...
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Curtain-raising issues, Wycombe's new goal verb & things you cannot be "amid”

August 11, 2025 47m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: a cultural mini-review of the Community Shield, some glorious crowd-noise from the Championship,...
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Conor Coady's football club, alphabetical top flights & the world's most generic team name

August 07, 2025 43m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by David Walker and Nick Miller. On the agenda: Conor Coady introduces himself as a Wrexham player in customary style, the awkwardness of...
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Eastenders' Euro 2025 joy, #AccidentalCantona & "the most 2011 transfer of all time”

August 04, 2025 50m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by David Walker and Nick Miller. On the agenda: more Cliches references in wrestling commentary, Adam suffers a textbook "freak footballer injury" in...
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The Football Cliches Quiz XX: The View From The Lane

July 30, 2025 1h 10m
The twentieth installment of the Football Clichés Quiz sees Adam, Charlie and Dave take on James Maw, Jack Pitt-Brooke and Dan Kilpatrick from the Athletic's Tottenham podcast The View From The...
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Goalkeepers' headers & elasticos on the deck of the Titanic: The listeners' loves & hates*

July 28, 2025 40m
Adam 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...
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The Agyemang Cacophony, the storm-weathering threshold & how clubs “get their man”

July 24, 2025 50m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare & David Walker. On the agenda: a cultural review of England 2 Italy 1, Alan Brazil gets his head around the "Barclaysman"...
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Talispersons, textbook Turkish Super Lig & time limits for the commentator's curse

July 21, 2025 40m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: Watford calling their new striker "free-scoring", the statute of limitations on a commentator's...
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The threshold for being "rudderless" & Tour de France riders as footballers

July 16, 2025 44m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare & David Walker. On the agenda: The knowledgeable Wimbledon crowd being too knowledgeable, ex-Tottenham midfield maestros...
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Pre-season trophies, Iran in the Championship... and what happened to shin splints?

July 14, 2025 42m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: England meeting the Euro 2025 "lift-off" criteria, unexpected new players in the...
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Overage youth team mentors & the quickest repaying of a transfer fee ever

July 09, 2025 42m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare & David Walker. On the agenda: Commentators vs Fancy Kit Fonts, Joao Pedro (almost) literally repays a chunk of his...
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Giving 40,000%, Test Match Andy Townsend & "Can you explore a swoop?”

July 07, 2025 40m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: Dave's karaoke with an EFL goal machine's wife, the tennis equivalent of a goal going in off the...
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Wimbledon tennis players as footballers & the floodgates threshold

July 02, 2025 50m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare & David Walker. On the agenda: The return of an allegedly iconic football TV programme, a never-before-seen method of...
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Stopping Celeste's flame, pre-season lingo & Jhon Duran's reverse-gear career

June 30, 2025 43m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: Celeste refusing to play the Super Sunday theme tune at Glastonbury, the club we really should...
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5-a-side injury updates & watching TV football from an acute angle: The listeners' loves & hates

June 25, 2025 1h 3m
Adam 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...
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”The most involved-goals man", Swiss Army knives & watching the Roy Keane film trailer

June 23, 2025 57m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: which player could most plausibly play for all 32 Club World Cup teams, the inevitability of Ref...
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The Pure Bundesliga XI

June 18, 2025 1h 10m
Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare, David Walker and Bundesliga commentator Kevin Hatchard to compile the quintessential lineup of players from modern German football.

The selection...
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Count Infantula's Club World Cup, referee kit launches & goal sandwiches

June 16, 2025 50m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: some early Club World Cup observations (including DAZN's motley crew of pundits and...
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Heavy England shirts, absolute clinics & Club World Cup curiosity levels

June 11, 2025 52m
& David Walker. On the agenda: the half-hearted fallout from England 1-3 Senegal, Scotland's George Hirst mixes up his metaphorical goalscoring relief, why Claudio Ranieri should go to the World Cup,...
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Dixon is the new Lawro, Ange's logical next move & "where the dust mites dwell”

June 09, 2025 42m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the Clichés army react to Dave's big news, Thomas Tuchel enters familiar territory for an England...
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Vivaldo, the "end to end" threshold & the authenticity of Lionel Messi's pub crisps

June 05, 2025 41m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare & Nick Miller. On the agenda: the bonus Tom Cruise punditry we all wanted to hear, the traditional opening bell for the...
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Tom Cruise on short corners, VAR at Tesco and introducing... Dreamland

June 02, 2025 42m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: US advertising getting the Champions League exquisitely wrong, the suffocating sycophancy of...
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Proper clubs & "woke pressing" with the Screen Rot Podcast

May 28, 2025 1h 26m
The pod welcomes Jacob Hawley and Jake Farrell - aka The Screen Rot Podcast - for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks, as they choose their six personal fascinations and irritations of...
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The 100-minute fetish club, Love Actually in Naples, and the ultimate "released on DVD" game

May 26, 2025 48m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by David Walker and Nick Miller. On the agenda: the art of the double guard of honour, a baffling soundtrack to Napoli’s Scudetto ceremony, England...
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Marmoush's hat-trick of Etihad gasps, Messi in Mobland & what makes a "shrewd" signing

May 21, 2025 47m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare & David Walker. On the agenda: Will Still’s inevitable English football unveiling edges closer, the Etihad reaction to...
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The Dean Henderson Final, Scottish police enganches & the hitman criteria

May 19, 2025 58m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the weekend's hat-trick of feelgood football stories (feat. Sean Dyche's co-commentary...
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The Football Cliches Quiz XIX: Not The Top 20

May 15, 2025 1h 45m
The Football Clichés Quiz returns to take on EFL specialists Ali Maxwell, George Elek (and ringer ex-pro David Prutton) from the Not The Top 20 podcast.

The questions include: UEFA Cup final...
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The League of Farmers, metaphorical mountains & UFO-spotting Premier League managers

May 12, 2025 39m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the secret behind Watford's managerial recruitment strategy, Luis Enrique on "farmers leagues", a...
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Stanley Tucci's Champions League punditry, Furniccio Villaggione & a chat with Rudi Voller

May 07, 2025 55m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare & David Walker. On the agenda: a cultural review of Inter 4-3 Barcelona (from both sides of the Atlantic), the fascinating...
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Perfectly-timed crowd noise, Jacko Wilsheri & managers who qualify as "glorified PE teachers”

May 06, 2025 45m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker as they clock up 1,001 combined pod appearances. On the agenda: some perfectly timed crowd noise to meet a...
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Football's present-tense addiction & penalty shootout celebrations: The listeners' loves & hates

April 30, 2025 59m
Adam 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...
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Accidental FIFA commentary, Newcastle's Fibonacci fate & Premier League cliche analytics

April 28, 2025 58m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: Wembley's drum-beat woodwork, the most "mid-2000s FIFA game" commentary of the season, why...
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Pope John Gregory, Premier League clubs as supermarkets & route-one crowd noise

April 23, 2025 44m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by David Walker and Nick Miller. On the agenda: managers accidentally inviting Dave to their birthday parties, Clive Tyldesley's Substack...
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Fact-checking Paul Scholes, caretaker popes & Olivier Giroud's locker

April 21, 2025 52m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: Mark Clattenburg's Generation Alpha breakthrough, the search continues for the origin of...
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The Premier League Unfinished Business XI

April 16, 2025 1h 18m
Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare, David Walker and Nick Miller to pick a lineup of players destined to be subject to the gravitational pull of the Premier League to give it (at least) one...
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Prince William's punditry, TNT's "hipster gunk" and a gift from the Keys & Gray gods

April 15, 2025 54m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: Prince William's absurdly highly-acclaimed "punditry", the Premier League club that would produce...
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Ribblesdale Rovers vs The Rules, Chris Sutton vs football jargon & the exact definition of a "hoick”

April 09, 2025 41m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by David Walker and Nick Miller. On the agenda: A scandalous Sunday League saga, obscure staff members on Transfermarkt, Chris Sutton...
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The ultimate managerial indignity & everything ITV crime dramas get wrong about football

April 07, 2025 44m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by David Walker and Nick Miller. On the agenda: Kevin De Bruyne greatness fatigue, the concept of "pulling rank" at a set piece, a new low for clickbait...
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Doing a job on Chris Wilder & goalkeepers just booting it upfield, with Bryan's Gunn

April 02, 2025 56m
The pod welcomes the content-creating genius that is Bryan's Gunn - aka Will Powell - for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks, as he chooses his six personal fascinations and irritations of...
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Free-transfer pundits, Daniel Mann's woodwork nuance & ex-Spurs defenders vs. the Jonas Brothers

March 31, 2025 41m
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: football pundits available on a free transfer, Big Dan Burn's week becomes a fortnight, a...
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”Snuffing out the danger", pre-match strolling & drinking the opposition's water: The listeners' loves & hates

March 27, 2025 52m
Adam 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...
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90/10 tackles, Danish player ratings & how to board a train like a 30-goal striker

March 25, 2025 47m
Adam 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...
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Woke metrics, Erling Haaland's Pro Evo name & our niche England predictions

March 20, 2025 54m
Adam 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...
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The Carabao springboard, more musical commentary & the most Richard Keys-sounding tweet of all time

March 18, 2025 42m
Adam 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...
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Knowing your way around the Champions League, German woodwork & England's future one-cap wonders

March 13, 2025 1h 3m
Adam 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,...

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