The Football Cliches Quiz XXII: Cliches vs Career We Go — The Decider

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Speaker 8 Anguillan internationals, chronological conundrums, football men dubbed into foreign languages, the muddled club career of Craig Bellamy, saints that never were, the dubious excitement expressed by new signings upon their unveiling, Richard Keys trying to interrupt Arsen Venger, and happy hunting grounds.

Speaker 8 Brought to your ears by Goal Hanger Podcasts. This is the Football Cliches Quiz 22.

Speaker 8 Hello everyone and welcome to Football Clichés. I'm Adam Hurry and this is the 22nd edition of the Clichés Quiz.
On team clichés with me today is Charlie Eccleshaire. How are you doing?

Speaker 1 Very well, thank you.

Speaker 8 September's epic against a Jonathan Wilson-inspired Libero saw our three quiz winning run brought to a shuddering halt. What other kind of halt is there?

Speaker 8 We've now won five lost six in the pod v pod era. Just which football cliches are going to turn up today? Yeah, that was

Speaker 1 that really could have gone either way though, that one, couldn't it? So hopefully

Speaker 1 if it's close today, we'll edge it.

Speaker 1 But yeah, I mean,

Speaker 1 that's a satisfyingly close, you know, it could not be closer after 11. That's good.
That's what we want. Yeah.

Speaker 8 I think so.

Speaker 1 You don't want to be embarrassing, or you don't want to be like the equivalent of a guy who brings their own bowling ball to bowling and just like battering everyone.

Speaker 8 Exactly it. Right, alongside you on team cliches, David Walker.
How are things? Things are good. And as you alluded to the other day, we have got another

Speaker 8 quiz-based Christmas announcement to make, haven't we? We do indeed. The Football Cliches Christmas quiz live on the 28th of December in aid of shelter.

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Speaker 8 Six rounds of enjoyably niche, multiple choice football trivia, and we're going to play some happy hunting grounds live as well. Does that sound fun to you? Yeah.

Speaker 8 I'm very much looking forward to, I think, cracking open a bottle of red and just making my way through it as we sit on the the zoom and go through the quiz.

Speaker 8 But I think it will be a perfect thing to do in that week. There's not much, I think there's any football on that night, I don't think.

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Speaker 1 Yeah, attention will turn very, uh, very soon after that game finishes.

Speaker 8 Yeah, our attention will so turn. Yes, exactly.
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Let's do it. Right, our quiz guests today, it's the People's Derby back for a third crack at us.
It's Career We Go.

Speaker 8 First up, Bobby, how you doing?

Speaker 11 I'm very well, Adam. Looking forward to this.
The decider, I think it is, isn't it?

Speaker 8 It is very much the decider.

Speaker 8 Yeah, 1-1 lost one against you, Lot. It's been nearly a year since our last clash.
And in that time, you've released your own single.

Speaker 2 Well.

Speaker 8 Go on.

Speaker 8 Time flies.

Speaker 11 I know, I know. A whole year.

Speaker 11 I was saying to you just off, off air, that it's

Speaker 11 crazy that we're both still going a year on and still coming up with new ideas, but it's always a pleasure to do these. I really, really enjoy them.
And I get a weird bit nervous as well. So, yeah.

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Yeah, it's fine. It's good to have that nervous energy.
Alongside you is Joe. How are you doing, Joe? Yeah, very well.

Speaker 13 Very well, Adam.

Speaker 8 As always, you suspect this quiz will be won and lost in round three. Our happy hunting grounds format versus your trademark career we go.

Speaker 8 It's where it all hinges, really, isn't it?

Speaker 13 Yeah, absolutely. And I'd say we'll be heavily relying on Bobby, but I think

Speaker 13 Aemo's decent as well at Happy Hunting Grounds. But

Speaker 13 you probably won't hear too much from me on that round.

Speaker 8 When we went to Dublin for the clichés live tour recently,

Speaker 8 very impressed with the standard of Happy Hunting Grounds after the show. So

Speaker 1 yeah, exactly.

Speaker 13 Knowledgeable crowd.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Completing your knowledgeable crowd, in for Theo, it is Amo, the designer of both podcast artwork. And you do well to remember that, Amo, over the next couple of hours, so I would say.

Speaker 14 Yeah, yeah, fingers in both. You know,

Speaker 14 I've worked on both teams. And look, I have a lot of respect for both sides.
But yeah, today we'll be representing Career We Go in a sort of, I'll be the Colin Healy to Theo's Roy Keene, I would say.

Speaker 14 Not that he walked out on the team, but yeah, a late replacement. And we'll see how we go.

Speaker 8 Well, if there is any doubt over your creative allegiance, uh once you've seen what I've done to your artwork for the Christmas quiz, uh you'll probably uh disown us completely. So uh and that's fine.

Speaker 8 That's fine.

Speaker 14 I am looking forward to seeing that. So uh yeah, I can't wait.

Speaker 8 Um right a reminder of the format for everybody. Each team are going to pose three rounds of five questions to the other team.
A total of 25 points will be on offer.

Speaker 8 Let's kick things off with our first round. It's the trivia round.
And your first question career we go is this.

Speaker 8 Anguilla International Forward Aiden Scipio has a physical feature feature that is widely believed to be a record in world football.

Speaker 2 What is it?

Speaker 11 Oh,

Speaker 11 okay. Okay, let's think logically what it could be.

Speaker 11 Anguilo Scipio, did you say?

Speaker 8 His name is Aiden Scipio. Oh, Aiden.
Anguilla International Forward.

Speaker 11 Okay.

Speaker 11 Any ideas, lads?

Speaker 14 Biggest something?

Speaker 13 Yep. I'm thinking extra toe.

Speaker 14 Feet.

Speaker 2 Biggest feet in football.

Speaker 11 It could just be biggest toe and that, you know, it's a with var these days, you know, no one wants that. Or biggest neck and he's good in the air.

Speaker 13 I like the big feet one.

Speaker 11 Should we go biggest toe?

Speaker 13 You're going to go big toe rather than big.

Speaker 14 I think big feet. At least that's a measurable

Speaker 2 thing.

Speaker 11 Let's go big feet. All right, we'll lock in biggest feet.

Speaker 8 You think Aiden Scipio has the biggest feet in world football? It's not a bad guess, actually, but in fact, he has the longest hair in world football. He has dreadlocks down to his knees.

Speaker 2 Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 Very dinner records.

Speaker 8 Yeah, yeah. Essentially unprovable.

Speaker 2 Longest nails.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's always nails, isn't it?

Speaker 8 You're naught for one. Okay, question two, Dave.
Okay, question two. Which of these nations has never played at a World Cup? A Kuwait? B, Guatemala? C United Arab Emirates?

Speaker 2 Or D Cuba?

Speaker 11 Ooh, okay. I think it's between B and D.

Speaker 11 I would say Guatemala.

Speaker 14 I think Cuba have. So I think Guatemala haven't.
I think they might have been in the 70s one, potentially.

Speaker 11 I think we can, I think QA and UAE definitely have.

Speaker 11 My gut was Guatemala.

Speaker 8 Post-missile crisis?

Speaker 2 Are you sure?

Speaker 11 Post-missile crisis.

Speaker 1 Pegs and all that.

Speaker 13 Let's go, Guatemala, then.

Speaker 11 Should we go Guatemala?

Speaker 14 Yeah, it feels right to me.

Speaker 13 But yeah. Yeah, I thought it was Cuba, but I think if Emo has that idea, not to pass the blame, but I think you just know the Cuba have been there.
Therefore, let's go for Guatemala.

Speaker 11 All right, well, we'll lock in Guatemala.

Speaker 8 You've gone for Guatemala, and you are correct.

Speaker 11 Nice. Well played.

Speaker 8 Yeah, Cuba have had one appearance at the World Cup in 1938. They got to the quarterfinals.

Speaker 11 Oh, wow. Fair play.
So it was.

Speaker 1 So never approached myself crisis.

Speaker 2 It's really.

Speaker 1 Fortunately has really turned since then.

Speaker 2 Right, you're on the board.

Speaker 8 Career we go. Charlie, question three for them, please.

Speaker 1 Can you please put these footballing events in chronological order? Keys and Gray leaves Sky Sports. Luis Suarez bites Branislav Ivanovich.

Speaker 1 Joe Gannier calls a journalist a cunt at his first press conference as Newcastle manager. Sunderland beat Liverpool 1-0 with a goal scored by Darren Bent with the help of the infamous Beach Ball.

Speaker 8 The C word's so much nice in a Georgie Thompson voice, isn't it?

Speaker 1 So start with the,

Speaker 1 yeah, with the oldest and move along to the most recent.

Speaker 11 So keys and grey i think was 2011 1011 darren bent was 09 10 season suarez was that 2012 he was there in 12 to 14 yeah i think so it was near the start wasn't it right kinner would be the earliest right was kinear like 08 ish was he after keegan or something 07 08 i think maybe kinner so my

Speaker 11 gut is kinnear first then darren bent then keys and gray then Suarez.

Speaker 14 That feels about right.

Speaker 13 I'm just not sure if Kinnear is first or second, because it could be deceivingly recent.

Speaker 13 But I like the sound

Speaker 13 of how you summarise it there. So I think go for that.

Speaker 11 We'll go with that. Okay, so we'll go from earliest to latest.
We'll go Joe Kinnear,

Speaker 11 Darren Bent, Keys and Gray, and then Suarez.

Speaker 1 Okay, that's locked in. So

Speaker 1 the first one in October 2008 was Joe Kinnear and the journalist the second in october 2009 was sunderland beating liverpool 1-0 with the beach ball goal third was keys and gray leaving sky sports in january 2011 and last was indeed luis suarez biting brandislav ivanovich in april 2013 very well done i'm applauding i'm applauding fair play bobby bobby superb i feel like him calling a journalist who cunt has gone under the radar

Speaker 2 you think

Speaker 13 yeah those other stories come to mind uh before it for me yeah It's the way he did it as well, wasn't it?

Speaker 8 Because didn't he go, which ones, which one of you, Simon?

Speaker 1 Simon Bird, yeah. Yeah, you're a camp.

Speaker 8 Two points on the board for Career We Go. Question four for you.
Which of these players has never played for Southampton? Andrei Konchelskis? B. Takumi Minamino? C.
Louis Bohemorte? Or D. Paul Shana?

Speaker 8 Konchelskis, Minamino, Boa Morte, or Shana? Which of these has never played for Southampton?

Speaker 14 Minamino has.

Speaker 11 Yeah, Paul Shana, I think, comes to mind. I think Bohemorte has.

Speaker 14 I think Bohemorte has as well.

Speaker 11 It was between Konchelskis and Paul Shana. Konchelskis might have...
Because he played for City, didn't he?

Speaker 13 Played for City, played for Everton, played for Rangers.

Speaker 14 It would have been in the Premier League. I don't remember Konchelskis in that shirt.

Speaker 11 I mean, I can't imagine Paul Shana.

Speaker 13 I thought it was Konchelskis at first until Adam said Paul Sharner. And I feel

Speaker 13 it's Sharner because I think I missed that.

Speaker 13 Conchelskis played for City, yeah?

Speaker 11 He played for City, I think.

Speaker 13 I think I missed that previously, so he did bounce around a bit. I would say it's more likely to be Sharner.

Speaker 11 Yeah, I can picture Konchelskis playing for Southampton like latter stages of the Dell more than I can picture Sharna at St. Mary's.
So

Speaker 11 I would say Sharna. What do you reckon? Shana?

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 11 We'll go Paul Shana.

Speaker 2 The answer is Paul Sharner.

Speaker 11 Oh, fucking get in. well played.

Speaker 8 Bobby, just picking up on your claim to have vividly pictured Andre Kachelski as playing for Southampton at the Dell.

Speaker 8 He signed for Southampton in the summer of 2003, after they'd left the Dell and were playing at St. Mary's.

Speaker 8 There was a big fuss about him taking Matt Letitier's vacant number seven shirt.

Speaker 8 He then played a total of two games for Southampton and was released to play for Al Hillal.

Speaker 2 So incredible moment from you, is what I'm saying.

Speaker 11 I mean, to be fair, I can picture him at the Dell, but yeah, but yeah, no, absolute Dell legend, Andrew, and Charles Kiss, nice one.

Speaker 13 But Paul Sharner is just too blue and white, isn't it? Was it Wiggin at West Brom as well?

Speaker 8 Yeah, I mean, obviously, the funnest part of this quiz is picking the thing that didn't happen. And I'm slightly disappointed with myself for picking Sharner there.

Speaker 8 I should have spent a little bit more time on it. Anyway, nonetheless, you've got three points on the board.
Dave, hit them with question five. Question five.

Speaker 8 Sasswolo drew two all with Pisa on Sunday. A game that featured a multiple Premier League winner on one team and a World Cup winner coming off the bench for the other.
Name one of those players.

Speaker 11 Ooh.

Speaker 2 Alright.

Speaker 13 It's a World Cup winner and. Sorry, what's your?

Speaker 8 So you've got a multiple Premier League winner on one team and a World Cup winner coming off the bench for the other.

Speaker 11 Cool. I don't have a clue.
So I would... The multiple Premier League winner, I imagine, would be the city player.
Is there

Speaker 11 like Ottomendi at one of them or something?

Speaker 14 Yeah, or who's the he could be both

Speaker 14 Ottomendi for one and then we just need one don't we? Um let's have a think so what about where's Joe Cancello play these days?

Speaker 13 I think he's at Al Hilal someone

Speaker 11 Yeah that era maybe like a who might have won two or three Premier Leagues and now it's yeah dropped off a bit there was no there was no actual Italians was there at City was there Member anyone but is Jeko still playing oh Jeko could be be a shout out.

Speaker 14 Yeah. I have no idea where he is, but he was in Serie A.

Speaker 11 He was at Rome, afraid, isn't he?

Speaker 11 Yeah, he won more than one Premier League, didn't he? Yeah, I'm up. Should we go Jeko? Edin Jeko?

Speaker 13 Yeah, he was in Turkey. Has he left there? Bosh, I could call you.

Speaker 13 It's a bit of a punt, but I don't mind it.

Speaker 14 Yeah, I don't know what any, I don't know, to be honest. So, yeah.

Speaker 10 All right, well, we'll go Edin Jeko.

Speaker 8 You're going Edin Jeko. I'm afraid that is incorrect.
You could have had the multiple Premier League winner was Nemanja Matic, and the World Cup winner was Raul Albiol.

Speaker 13 Wow.

Speaker 11 Wow.

Speaker 11 Who plays for who? Is Matic at Sassuolo?

Speaker 8 Matic is Sassuolo and Albiol came off the bench for Pisa.

Speaker 11 Yeah. Good question.

Speaker 8 Very good question and credit to European football expert Jack Lang for alerting me to this as well. So I didn't get it either.
Eden Jeko currently playing for Fiorentina. So you weren't far off.

Speaker 1 Good process from you guys.

Speaker 2 That's amazing. As always.

Speaker 8 Yeah, good quizzes. Good process.
Even though they get it wrong, they play football the right way.

Speaker 1 Gotta trust that will pay off.

Speaker 8 Three points for a career we go in the first round. Hit us with your first round, please.

Speaker 14 Okay, so I'm going to take this first round, which Bobby has called it this, or someone has called it this, I'm not sure. But we've gone with a Collins Jonological.

Speaker 14 So

Speaker 14 it's essentially similar to, I think, your question three. I'm going to give you four things and you have to put them.
in chronological order.

Speaker 14 I also want to call it big chronological Atkinson, but that was rightly overruled. Um, right, so the first one here is Craig Bellamy's clubs.
So put these in the order he played for these clubs.

Speaker 14 West Ham, Liverpool, the first spell at Liverpool, Celtic, and Blackburn.

Speaker 8 I mean, what a perfect player to pick. Great player to pick.

Speaker 1 That's really hard.

Speaker 1 So Liverpool was like 07-y. I mean, he was definitely there in 07 because that's when I thought the club thing was a reference to that golf celebration.

Speaker 1 I thought that's where you were going with that.

Speaker 1 But yeah, that was 2007. West Ham, I'm sure, was after that.

Speaker 8 I think Blackburn was before Liverpool.

Speaker 11 Was that what he got the move there off the back of?

Speaker 8 Yeah, he did well at Blackburn.

Speaker 1 So what? He would have gone Newcastle to Blackburn.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I don't think he went to Newcastle or Liverpool.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 8 West Ham, was he part of that sort of Eggert Magnusson era when they signed a few players?

Speaker 1 Yes, around then, but he was... Egger Magnusson came in in 06.
So yeah, he would have signed. I think he would have signed.
He would have gone. Yeah, he would have gone after Liverpool.

Speaker 1 He would have been at Liverpool at that point. Exactly.
The XL era. So I think.

Speaker 8 Celtic. So it feels too obvious to put Celtic last.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Doesn't it? He finished at Cardiff. He finished up at Cardiff.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Did he do a sort of random sneaky move to Celtic when he was actually still sort of a going concern?

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Yeah. Newcastle to Celtic for a bit and came back down to Blackburn.

Speaker 1 I mean, don't mind it. Yeah, I just can't.

Speaker 8 What about Blackburn, Celtic, West Ham, Liverpool?

Speaker 1 So so he played no liverpool liverpool was definitely before west ham blackburn in the same time as bentley in that sort of team was it yes he did okay yes so he actually here we go get him going he would still have been at he must have gone he was still at blackburn i'm pretty sure in 2006 in 05 06 he was still at blackburn he was at liverpool 06 07 so he definitely went blackburn to liverpool and i'm sure he was west ham i reckon celtic was alone you know celtic feels quite loney it does it is possible he went there first when he fell out because he fell out with the management at newcastle didn't he?

Speaker 1 Yeah. And I feel like he was slightly sent away in disgrace.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 8 And I go, where can I go?

Speaker 1 Celtic. I don't know if we're just sort of fictionalised.

Speaker 8 No, it's good. I like it.

Speaker 2 It's funny. It's still fun, isn't it?

Speaker 1 In which case, if we do think this happened, which I do feel it kind of did, then it's Celtic, then Blackburn, then Liverpool, then West Ham.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I like it. Me too.

Speaker 1 Celtic, then Blackburn, then Liverpool, then West Ham.

Speaker 2 All right.

Speaker 14 So the first first club is

Speaker 14 on loan from Newcastle, Celtic. Yes.

Speaker 14 After a dispute I heard.

Speaker 14 Followed by Blackburn, Liverpool. Yes.
And West Ham United.

Speaker 2 Very, very last place.

Speaker 8 Superb team effort. Celtic.
Superbly handled.

Speaker 1 That sneaky little Celtic. That was like a nasty deflection we had to deal with.

Speaker 2 We reset ourselves and carried it away. Take that thing away.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Right, we're on the board.

Speaker 14 Well played, well played, right. Next one is Aston Villa managers.
Put these in order. Tim Sherwood, Paul Lambert, Remy Gard, and Alex MacLeish.

Speaker 1 Okay, so Gard basically succeeded Sherwood and Lambert came before Sherwood. And Macleish...

Speaker 1 That was before he was...

Speaker 2 Oh, fuck, was he before or after?

Speaker 8 But did he go straight from...

Speaker 8 I think MacLeish would have been pre-Lambert and Sherwood person. Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, no, so it's definitely... I'm positive it's Lambert to Sherwood to Guard.

Speaker 8 So Macleish...

Speaker 1 Did MacLeish go straight from Birmingham to Villa? I'm pretty sure he did. And it was controversial.
And I think he left Birmingham in 2011 when they went down.

Speaker 1 And then Lambert would have gone to Villa post-Norwich, like off the back of Norwich. So I'm pretty sure then it would be Macleish, Lambert, Sherwood, Guard.

Speaker 8 Yeah, Sherwood was Sherwood was the start of 1516. And then they got sacked.

Speaker 1 And then he got sacked and replaced with Guard, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So let's do that. Yeah.
okay, so MacLeish, then Lambert, then Sherwood, then guard

Speaker 14 is correct. Very well played.
Yeah, Macleich, Lambert, Sherwood, Guard, and then Roberto DiMateo, strangely, after that. So, yeah.
Fair play. That's another point on the board.
Third question.

Speaker 14 First England caps for these four players. Stephen Gerard, Rio Ferdinand, Frank Lampard, and Michael Owen.

Speaker 2 Right. Right.

Speaker 8 Michael Owen was 1997. He was 98, wasn't he?

Speaker 2 He was in. He was 98.
Sorry.

Speaker 8 Pre-World Cup in.

Speaker 1 No, I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 Did he play that Chile game that England lost and was quite good?

Speaker 8 Yes. I was about to say Chile, but I got mixed up.
Was that the one where Salah scored twice? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 We lost.

Speaker 8 Okay, that was 98.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's kind of early-ish 98.

Speaker 8 I think that was before that, 97. I think.
Yeah, I think so. He came in really super early.

Speaker 8 in a friendly i'm sure he's first i'm convinced he's first rio is um he was on the bench but not not in the squad but he was at Euro 96, wasn't he? Like in the European squad.

Speaker 2 He was on like work experience.

Speaker 2 Like he was being

Speaker 1 an internship during Euro 96.

Speaker 8 I think Lampard is last. Lampard was a late developer when it came to international football.

Speaker 1 He was a late developer. I just wonder whether he would have snuck one in before Gerard.

Speaker 1 I mean, Gerrard's first season was, first big season was 99, 2000 when he scored that goal against Sheffield Wednesday, which was in 99.

Speaker 8 Gerard was before Lampard.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and he must have got a cap that season. In fact, was he even in the Euro 2000 squad? If not, he must have been walking walking around.

Speaker 8 Because he got injured. He missed tournaments with injuries.

Speaker 1 He missed the 2002 World Cup.

Speaker 8 Lampard famously wasn't in the Euro 2000 squad. Famously? Well, infamously, perhaps.

Speaker 8 Him and his mates went off on holiday, didn't they? Oh, right, yeah, yeah. I was trying to pick the Lampard controversy there.
I really like this. I think, yeah, Ferdinand Owen.
Gerard Lampard.

Speaker 8 Do you think Ferdinand's first? I really, really do.

Speaker 1 Do you think he should make a 97?

Speaker 8 I'm pretty sure it was late 97 in a friendly. I'm desperately trying to think who it was against.
Hoddle would have liked Cameroon or something. Rio.

Speaker 1 Letting him get it. He would have done that.

Speaker 8 Because

Speaker 8 he was immediately billed as the player who was going to come out of defense with the ball. Yeah, yeah.
And we were so obsessed with the idea of it. And Owen was just younger and just came afterwards.

Speaker 8 So

Speaker 8 I'm staking my reputation on it.

Speaker 1 Let's go with that then.

Speaker 8 Yeah, Ferdinand Owen, Gerard Lampard. Okay.

Speaker 14 The first player, Rio Ferdinand, November 1997.

Speaker 14 Second, Michael Owen, February 1998.

Speaker 14 The third, in October 1999,

Speaker 2 Frank Lampard.

Speaker 8 Ah, that was in bloody Belgium at the Stadium alight, wasn't it?

Speaker 2 It was exactly that.

Speaker 11 Kevin Phillips and Steve Guffey.

Speaker 14 Yep. And then Steve and Gerrard in May 2000.

Speaker 2 Wow.

Speaker 18 Yep.

Speaker 14 Very close, but yeah, unlucky.

Speaker 11 That does seem late for Gerrard, doesn't it?

Speaker 8 Yeah, it does.

Speaker 8 I would have thought he would have been fast-tracked with his athleticism.

Speaker 2 Well played, right, unlucky.

Speaker 14 So the next question,

Speaker 14 question four. When did these four clubs last appear in the Premier League? Middlesbrough, West Brom, Cardiff City, and Stoke City.

Speaker 17 Okay, so

Speaker 1 West Brom. Yeah, great questions.
West Brom went down in 2021 because they were there in that, in the lockdown season. Cardiff, 2019, they last went down.

Speaker 1 Stoke went down in 2018, I'm pretty sure, and they signed a load of players. Borough 2017, I don't think they've been back.
They haven't been back since then. No, they sort of stunk it out.

Speaker 1 So that would mean most recent is West Brom. So we're going oldest.
How was the question worded? Sorry. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 14 So like oldest two.

Speaker 1 So start with the old. Okay, so that would be Middlesbrough, then Stoke, then Cardiff, then West Brom.

Speaker 14 That is spot on. Well played.
Yeah, I thought Middlesbrough is a weird weird one. I feel like that could be anytime, but I guess they haven't been back, it's the point, isn't it?

Speaker 2 Karenca,

Speaker 1 yeah, Adama Triore, and all that.

Speaker 3 Right.

Speaker 1 And all that.

Speaker 2 You can't keep saying that throughout the quiz.

Speaker 8 Just a bit. Well, yeah.

Speaker 14 Question five, final one, is put these 1990s moments in order. The first Dig Ron sits in the wrong dugout on his Nottingham Forest debut.

Speaker 1 That's 99, so that could well be last.

Speaker 8 Don't do that, Charlie. Come on.

Speaker 2 Let's not take the PC, shall we?

Speaker 14 Paolo Wanchop marks his Derby County debut with a memorable solo goal at Old Trafford.

Speaker 14 Paolo DiCanio pushes over referee Paul Alcock, and Ryan Giggs scores a memorable solo goal against Arsenal at Villa Park.

Speaker 1 Okay, so the first one's Wanchop, that's 97. Yeah.
And then Paolo DiCanio is 98.

Speaker 8 Yes.

Speaker 1 And then Big Ron is January 99 to Giggs is April 99. Spot on.

Speaker 14 Yeah, that is farm. Very well played.
Yeah. Big Ron Dugout, I feel like, would be the one that might catch me out.
But yeah, it had to be that season, I suppose, far as going down.

Speaker 14 So yeah, well played.

Speaker 11 And January is correct as well.

Speaker 11 Months were correct as well. So

Speaker 14 we did need the months as well.

Speaker 2 So yeah, yeah, well played. Yeah.

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Speaker 8 Welcome back to the clichés quiz 22. Cliches lead career we go by four points to three.
It's time for round two, which I believe mutually is the audio round. So, clichés will go first.

Speaker 8 Question: One for Career We Go is this: Who or what is this? Dubbed into Spanish.

Speaker 24 Oh, esperas, juguaper in the terna a los decision. el défensor más joven en juga para englatera.
Didía que eso si rumpir en el estena?

Speaker 8 Do you want to hear it again?

Speaker 13 Yes, yes, please.

Speaker 24 Oh, espera, juga paring later, a los dice años. El denensor más joven en juga para en la terra.
Didía aque eso si rumpir el estena?

Speaker 13 Got some. You got them.

Speaker 8 I actually don't know the answer to this. I've not looked at it.
I've not looked at the answer, but I think, I think I've just got it off the back of the second one.

Speaker 11 Have you got it, Jay? You're our resident Spanish speaker here.

Speaker 8 Is that right?

Speaker 8 That's annoying.

Speaker 13 No, no, that is absolutely not correct.

Speaker 13 No, despite my mediocre efforts, I think it is Roy Keene and Micah Richards burst onto the scene.

Speaker 11 Oh, no. Is it Roy Keene, Ian Wright? Because it said something about England,

Speaker 11 big exit, England. Is it Roy Keene when he's like a...
Yeah, we're talking about finals, finals. That's it.

Speaker 13 That makes a lot more sense because I heard Keene in there, and it was definitely a big, big exit. That's good.

Speaker 11 All right, we'll go with Roy Keene and Ian Wright, I think it was, but Roy Keene talking about England going out. You know, we're talking about finals and that thing.

Speaker 8 You're going for Roy Keen and Ian Wright talking about England going out of a major tournament. What's the answer?

Speaker 7 Yeah, I think you just got to be careful, aren't you?

Speaker 21 Because I burst onto the scene, didn't I?

Speaker 7 And I was going to be the next best thing. Did you burst onto the scene? Burst on the

Speaker 7 head against on Villa. Do you know what I remember that? No.
Very few defenders burst onto the scene.

Speaker 7 Well, hold on. I played for England at 18.
Youngest ever defender to play for England. I would say that's bursting onto the scene.

Speaker 8 I love this clip.

Speaker 13 I'm a bit raging there because he said Hoven, which I think means young guy or youngster or something.

Speaker 13 Also, what didn't quite make sense, maybe it's a translation, is big exit. It's like that's what they're using for burst onto the scene.

Speaker 11 Maybe that's what burst onto the scene.

Speaker 13 I understand where we went wrong there, but yeah, I did kind of think it was that one.

Speaker 11 Yeah, my bad, Joe.

Speaker 8 Sometimes you can know too much.

Speaker 8 Blaming the dubbing technology as well.

Speaker 2 That's a rare move in the Cleaner.

Speaker 1 The foreign director equivalent.

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 8 Question two for you in the audio round. Who are they talking about here? on BBC Radio 5 Live on Sunday afternoon?

Speaker 17 In my career, I always play better when I've got a point to prove. I think Shay,

Speaker 17 the way that he does exactly what he said, no, I don't want to say seeing off players because they've got a really deep squad, but retaining his place as such an important player with the people who've come in and the money that's been spent is incredibly impressive, isn't it?

Speaker 16 Yeah, he's a brilliant player. He's a bit of a throwback, I think.

Speaker 18 You know, breath of fresh air, you know,

Speaker 16 he works his socks off both in the offensive and defensive side of the thing. He's a leader on the pitch.
You know, he speaks so well. He's you know, he's a brilliant player.

Speaker 16 I just like him as a person. I don't really know him that well, but I just, his interview, you say when he speaks, you know, he's very honest in what he says, you know, and of course,

Speaker 14 that's tricky.

Speaker 11 Yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 So who is

Speaker 14 who spent a lot of money and then who has kept their place?

Speaker 2 You know, like what, like,

Speaker 11 so instantly I was thinking a Chelsea player or if it was it from this weekend? Did you say who did Chelsea?

Speaker 8 Sunday afternoon on BBC Radio 5 Live.

Speaker 11 Okay,

Speaker 11 well it could be Arsenal's but Arsenal spent a bit of money.

Speaker 11 Like Marino or Trossard, but

Speaker 14 Shea Given say he knows him, doesn't know him too well.

Speaker 2 He doesn't know too well, yes.

Speaker 14 But he does know a little bit.

Speaker 11 Yeah, so I don't know if Shay, Shea, Given, and Tross are the guys.

Speaker 2 Shay Given and Marino hanging out.

Speaker 2 Yeah, we're pretty on point with him, but don't kick him out, Mike.

Speaker 14 Talking about Newcastle days, you know, just

Speaker 14 have a thing.

Speaker 14 Liverpool, anyone Liverpool?

Speaker 11 Oh, well, I don't know.

Speaker 11 They lost, didn't they? And I don't think it seemed to be quite a positive.

Speaker 10 Yeah, quite a positive.

Speaker 2 This is tricky.

Speaker 14 It has to be someone a bit funny as well that they're saying, like, it can't just be someone, presumably.

Speaker 13 I feel like it's like a British player because I'm kind of getting the vibes of like they're bringing in these big science and he's just like keeping his place

Speaker 13 doesn't necessarily doesn't necessarily have to be British though do you want to hear it again? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 17 In my career, I always play better when I've got a point to prove. I think Shay,

Speaker 17 the way that he does exactly what he said, no, I d I don't want to say seeing off players because they've got a really deep squad, but retaining his place as such an important player with the people who've come in and the money that's been spent is incredibly impressive, isn't it?

Speaker 16 Yeah, he's a brilliant player. He's a bit of a throwback, I think.
You know, breath of fresh air, you know,

Speaker 16 he works his socks off both in offensive and defensive side of the thing. He's a leader on the pitch.
You know, he speaks so well. He's you know, he's a brilliant.
I just, I just like him as a person.

Speaker 16 I don't really know him that well, but I just his interviews say when he speaks, you know, he's very honest in what he says, you know, and of course bit of a throwback.

Speaker 14 Is there someone like Jordan Henderson or

Speaker 1 Jacka?

Speaker 11 Yeah, but the way he says he's retained places

Speaker 11 with all the players they brought in, yeah. But

Speaker 11 I'm not too sure.

Speaker 13 Chelsea City or even Newcastle.

Speaker 11 Yeah, maybe in Newcastle. Oh, maybe Harvey Barnes? He scored, didn't he?

Speaker 13 I was thinking that.

Speaker 2 Maybe Harvey Barnes. He is a bit of a throwback.

Speaker 11 Yeah, he is a bit of a throwback.

Speaker 13 And a brother Fresh Air.

Speaker 14 He is a Brett of Fresh Air. Yeah.

Speaker 11 All right, should we go Harvey Barnes? Yeah, why not? All right, we'll go Harvey Barnes.

Speaker 8 You're going for Harvey Barnes. Now, who played on Sunday?

Speaker 11 Oh, wait.

Speaker 11 Arsenal Spurs.

Speaker 12 And?

Speaker 11 Leeds, Aemo?

Speaker 8 Leeds Villa. The answer is John McGinn.

Speaker 2 Oh.

Speaker 8 Have you memory-holed the game already, Aemo?

Speaker 14 I actually can barely remember anything that happened in that game.

Speaker 14 I don't remember John McGinn playing, to be honest.

Speaker 14 But yeah, he is a throwback and yeah, breath of fresh air.

Speaker 8 But can you be a throwback and a breath of fresh air, Charlie? It does beg that question.

Speaker 2 I don't know.

Speaker 1 I don't think they're mutually exclusive. Like, And was a breath of fresh air, partly because he was like a throwback to a sort of old-fashioned, straight-talking kind of manager.

Speaker 1 So I think you can, I think you can be both of those two things.

Speaker 8 Old air can be fresh. I mean, yes, it's skinny jeans, loose jeans all over again, isn't it?

Speaker 8 Thanks to Ollie James for sending that clip in the other day.

Speaker 8 Glad we got to use it for even more useful purposes.

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 8 Question three in the audio round for Career We go yet to get off the board in round two. Come on, who or what is this dubbed into Dutch?

Speaker 23 Yeah, tots, or no, client again, hexpell, rotop. Key promoties can't innovate,

Speaker 23 yeah.

Speaker 26 Totsin's, or no's or client again, hexpell, rotop.

Speaker 11 Ooh,

Speaker 11 okay,

Speaker 11 any Dutch, Amo?

Speaker 14 No Dutch at the moment.

Speaker 2 What?

Speaker 11 Yeah, it sounds like a phone in, right?

Speaker 14 I was about to say it sounds like someone phoning in.

Speaker 11 Yeah, and it doesn't. Jamie Carragher talks, but I don't think it was

Speaker 11 that.

Speaker 8 I'll go play it to you one more time. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 8 Listen to the rhythm of the speech, I'd say. Yeah, don't be obsessed by the audio quality.

Speaker 2 Yeah, okay, fine, fine. Okay.

Speaker 23 Can't promote his camera. That is it.
Tot scenes. Come on.
Yeah, tot scenes.

Speaker 26 Or nose or client again.

Speaker 23 Heck spell. Rotop.

Speaker 14 It sounds a bit scouse to me.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 It sounds like some

Speaker 14 knows how to maybe that's just how to play the game. Oh my god.

Speaker 11 Ah, this is tough drawing a blank on this. Should we just go with any Steve McManimum?

Speaker 14 Don't know.

Speaker 11 Yeah,

Speaker 11 I'll go with that.

Speaker 8 Why not? The answer is.

Speaker 25 Name promos can't be arched here.

Speaker 13 Oh no.

Speaker 25 Yeah, see ya.

Speaker 25 Darth little grand, silly game, fuck off.

Speaker 2 Oh no,

Speaker 14 that is gutting.

Speaker 11 Oh, that's a gimme. Oh, that's.

Speaker 2 Oh, no.

Speaker 13 I want to know here, Adam, do you play around with a few languages and then decide, oh, Dutch. Dutch is good here?

Speaker 8 Yeah, I want to kind of retain an element of recognisability in some of the words.

Speaker 8 Admittedly, in that example, didn't help whatsoever. But yeah, we can't go, you know, Mandarin or anything.

Speaker 2 It would be absolutely ridiculous.

Speaker 8 But yeah, spent some some time on Mersey Tide Keese, so I suppose you weren't miles off.

Speaker 8 You're miles off getting a point so far in this round.

Speaker 2 Question four. Writes.

Speaker 8 Finally, could you get on the board? Who is Sam Allardyce talking about here?

Speaker 9 The most exciting thing for Manchester United and Alexis is what he did when he had that space. I think he looks a tremendous talent.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 13 Yeah, we got it.

Speaker 11 It was Cristiano's debut as the Enth Spoltman, wasn't it? Yeah. All right.
We'll go Cristiano Ronaldo.

Speaker 8 The answer is Cristiano Ronaldo. Very much so.
Tormenting.

Speaker 2 Who is he talking to?

Speaker 1 He picked Micklingham.

Speaker 2 Yeah,

Speaker 8 he looked like a Disney villain, didn't he?

Speaker 2 Stranged over like 101 Dalmatians.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Anyway,

Speaker 8 you're on the board.

Speaker 2 It's for all.

Speaker 8 And this is your fifth question of the audio round. Who is Arsen Wenger talking about here? As Richard Keyes tries several times to interrupt him to ask his silly little question.

Speaker 27 But you changed him, didn't you? Did you say sniff?

Speaker 25 But

Speaker 25 well was convinced that he was not a goal scorer.

Speaker 19 Yeah, yeah,

Speaker 19 you're right.

Speaker 27 Yeah, well, what is a goal scorer?

Speaker 25 And the first time he played center-forward, I saw in training that he had the intelligence of a run, the timing of a run, that you know well, Andy, as a striker. And so

Speaker 25 he slowly

Speaker 27 says, Is there a difference, Arsen, between a goal scorer and a scorer of goals?

Speaker 10 Yes.

Speaker 2 All right.

Speaker 11 Well, my initial reaction was, my initial thought was maybe Thierry Henri didn't need

Speaker 11 a lot out of wide.

Speaker 11 But, you know, is he a goal scorer or a scorer?

Speaker 11 Does he mean

Speaker 2 a great goal scorer?

Speaker 1 Yeah, a scorer of great goals. Yeah, he's put his own spin on it.

Speaker 11 Literally the same thing, KC.

Speaker 11 But shall we lock in Henri? Have you got any other ideas?

Speaker 13 No, no, I was thinking Henri all the way through. It makes complete sense,

Speaker 13 just unless it's too straightforward. But I think it all adds up.

Speaker 11 I think so. I think

Speaker 11 we'll go Thierry Henri.

Speaker 8 Okay, you waited three questions for a point. Then we gift-wrapped you, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Thierry Henri.

Speaker 16 Nice one.

Speaker 8 Superb stuff. You're 5'4 ahead, but let's have our audio round now, please.

Speaker 13 Okay, full disclosure. A little bit nervous here because we did test run this last night to,

Speaker 13 yeah, not great results.

Speaker 13 but we've made a few amendments too easy or too hard uh last night the highest score was one out of five okay

Speaker 13 we have we have made a few adjustments since then so um hopefully you've overcorrected uh yeah potentio i don't know actually um yeah i am thinking back to the commentators episode and um yeah

Speaker 13 not necessarily wanting that to happen again but yes i will get cracking now with our audio round and this is can't wait to get started so can't wait to get started and this is all in relation to new signing interviews nice so you need to tell me for one point you will need to tell me the name of the player and the club

Speaker 13 name of the player and the club that he has signed for okay i will get started with signing number one so i need the name of the player and the club that he signed for after what happened last year it's

Speaker 28 i'm i'm so happy that everything came along very good And you know, the best thing is that I'm playing again and physically everything is perfect.

Speaker 8 It's Van Niseroy.

Speaker 1 Van Nistroyt United, yeah.

Speaker 8 Rude Van Nisteroy.

Speaker 1 Because he talked about that he was injured a year before, so yeah, that must be.

Speaker 8 That horrifying footage of him getting injured in the training ground.

Speaker 8 Screaming.

Speaker 12 Awful.

Speaker 8 Anyway, yeah, Rude Van Nistrooy, please.

Speaker 13 Rude Van Nistrooy Manchester United is correct.

Speaker 2 Oh, sorry.

Speaker 13 Yeah, I think I'll take it that you had Man United there. That is correct.

Speaker 13 And that was one of the easier ones that we substituted in.

Speaker 13 But you can see there was a bit of there was a bit of contextual information there obviously the transfer the year previously didn't work out moving on now to assigning number two same here I'll need the name of the player and the club many people know that I've had a special bond with this club growing up

Speaker 29 people have seen the picture of me in a

Speaker 1 shirt and yeah I'm excited I can't wait to get going I've obviously had quite a long holiday yeah got it Wilshire to West Ham oh I knew it was Wilshire but I couldn't work out which club that's right isn't it Dave because he talks about having he's a West Ham fan as well.

Speaker 1 I think you're right, actually.

Speaker 8 I'm glad you said West Ham because I was going to say Luton, having like just joined, just joined them as manager. Should we hear it again?

Speaker 8 I think West Ham's right. I think I can remember him talking about being like a West Ham fan of the West Ham family as a kid.

Speaker 1 How he sounds sounds more like 2018 and now, but let's hear it again, just in case.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 29 Many people will know that I've had a special bond with this club growing up.

Speaker 29 People have seen the picture of me in a

Speaker 23 shirt, and

Speaker 18 I'm excited.

Speaker 29 I can't wait to get going. I've obviously had quite a

Speaker 8 sounds excited.

Speaker 8 They always do, don't they?

Speaker 1 Yeah, let's go Wiltshire to West Ham.

Speaker 13 Jack Wiltshire is correct.

Speaker 13 West Ham is correct.

Speaker 8 So do that, Joe.

Speaker 2 Yeah, one thing.

Speaker 1 Very Chris Tarrant.

Speaker 13 When we did it last night, I think Bobby did say looting, so that was potential there as well. And yeah, the kind of backing music there, I did take that from the West Ham official website.

Speaker 2 Charlie has memorised all of the soundtracks.

Speaker 11 I think when I said loot and I think Joe was like, oh, yeah, because

Speaker 11 a lot of images of him going around as a kid in a loot and shirt. I was like, yeah, that makes sense.

Speaker 13 All right, two from two, moving on to player number three. Player and club needed.

Speaker 15 The biggest thing for me was the stadium, how energetic it is in the warm-up, even. They're singing songs.
they call each player over to come and greet the fans, and they greet you.

Speaker 15 So, things like that is quite warming and welcoming.

Speaker 8 And then, I've got it because I listened to or I watched a clip of this guy speaking the other day. That's Alex Oxlade Chamberlain.

Speaker 2 Oh, he was on the FOSCAST the other day,

Speaker 2 yeah.

Speaker 10 Was he talking about Basiktas, then do you think?

Speaker 8 Must be Turkey, yeah, yeah, Alex Oxlade Chamberlain to Basiktas

Speaker 13 tree from tree,

Speaker 1 great Great stuff.

Speaker 11 Well played. A little assist from Ben Foster there, was it?

Speaker 1 Listening to the FOSCAST finally paying off.

Speaker 8 7-5 cliché's lead.

Speaker 13 Well played. Now on to number four.

Speaker 18 Why have you decided to come here?

Speaker 30 Obviously to play football first and foremost.

Speaker 30 There's any player you know you want to play football and I'm no different to anyone else so

Speaker 30 I always wanted to play

Speaker 30 you know it works out well for both parties.

Speaker 18 How did this move transpire?

Speaker 30 When did you hear about it well it's because I think I think Peter said today it's no secret that they've been trying to get me for a few years but under different circumstances it just

Speaker 1 so so is it Robert King to Leeds do you think

Speaker 8 yeah so when as soon as you said Peter or something because I was going to say Liverpool

Speaker 1 to Richdale yeah yeah and I think him wanting to get them for years because he went to Coventry when loads of clubs wanted him and he went to Milan and he went to

Speaker 1 into

Speaker 1 yeah I think Leeds makes sense I mean obviously it could be any number of clubs but I I think Leeds makes sense.

Speaker 8 Peter clinches it as far as

Speaker 8 Boyhood Club ongoing joke, but it's

Speaker 8 button. It's Robbie Keene to Leeds United.

Speaker 13 Robbie Keene is correct. Leeds United is not correct.

Speaker 2 Oh!

Speaker 2 You've done us over completely!

Speaker 8 I've even updated the score on the Google Docs.

Speaker 13 Don't get complacent.

Speaker 13 Totally.

Speaker 13 What I'll do here is I'll play it and I'll tell you, listen to the accent of the interviewer.

Speaker 18 Why have you decided to come here?

Speaker 30 Obviously to play football, first and foremost.

Speaker 30 As any player, you know, you want to play football and I'm no different to anyone else, so

Speaker 30 I always wanted to play.

Speaker 30 You know, it works out well for both parties.

Speaker 18 How did this move transpire? When did you hear about it?

Speaker 30 Well, it's peace.

Speaker 30 I think Peter said today it's no secret that they've been trying to get me for a few years, but under different circumstances, it just...

Speaker 8 Peter Lorwell, the Celtic guy. Goddard.
He wouldn't have have said that before leads either.

Speaker 13 Another clue in there is Robbie Keene said this works out for both parties.

Speaker 13 It was a loan. It was a loan.
So it worked out well that he wasn't getting a game for Spurs.

Speaker 13 And then, yeah, pitched it up at Celtic. There you go.
Okay.

Speaker 13 Now we're going to move on to our

Speaker 13 final one here.

Speaker 1 We might need a lead as well because happy hunting rounds can be.

Speaker 2 Oh, here we go.

Speaker 8 I knew you were going to say this.

Speaker 1 If you get it, you get it.

Speaker 26 Yeah, very good. Off the pitch, happy to be home.
It's as if we've never been away, myself,

Speaker 26 wife and two kids. So now very happy, and

Speaker 26 obviously, just want to get back in the pitch now from a footballing point of view.

Speaker 1 Who is that?

Speaker 8 I would definitely need to hear it again.

Speaker 26 Yeah, very good.

Speaker 26 Off the pitch, yeah, happy to be home. It's as if we've never been away, myself,

Speaker 26 wife and two kids. So now very happy, and

Speaker 26 obviously, just want to get back in the pitch now from a footballing point of view.

Speaker 8 Is it

Speaker 8 Aiden McGeedy? What a pluck that is. Having been away playing in Russia or something.

Speaker 1 Yeah, do we think he's going to a former club or just back to

Speaker 1 a place or a country where he's

Speaker 8 returning from abroad? Yeah.

Speaker 1 I don't know what Aiden McGiddy sounds like. It could be him.

Speaker 8 To an English club. Aiden McGiddy would be a deep cut, wouldn't it?

Speaker 2 Going to Sunderland?

Speaker 8 Wait, because he went to Russia, didn't he? He was in Europe. He did.

Speaker 8 I mean, I would back myself to recognise the voice of... much more notable Irish players.
So it does lend itself to being a bit more of an obscure player. I wouldn't know Adie McGeedy's voice at all.

Speaker 8 I mean, home does suggest it's a former club. I don't know his career path, to be honest.

Speaker 1 But just think, is there anyone else similar level Irish player who returned to a former club in a way that was in any way kind of notable?

Speaker 8 I think it's...

Speaker 1 What does John O'Shea sound like? I don't think that is him, but just as an example.

Speaker 8 I think the home aspect is I've been abroad and I'm back in the country that I used to live in.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Would he call just England home

Speaker 1 when he's not from there? I mean maybe I can't think of any other player.

Speaker 8 He won't be returning to an Irish

Speaker 8 club, would he?

Speaker 1 Well, is there an Irish club player who sort of you know ended their career back in Ireland?

Speaker 8 Damien Duff.

Speaker 2 Yeah, Damien Duff maybe, but I don't think that's Damien Duff.

Speaker 8 Because you didn't have to play abroad, you should be coming home, right? To Ireland.

Speaker 1 That's what I mean, yeah.

Speaker 8 Can we have it one more time, please, Joe?

Speaker 8 McGee or Duff?

Speaker 26 Yeah, very good.

Speaker 26 After pitch, happy to be home. It's as if we've never been away, myself,

Speaker 26 wife, and two kids. So, no, very happy, and obviously, just want to get back in the pitch now from a football point of view.

Speaker 2 Maybe let's go, McGeedy.

Speaker 1 I don't, that's all we've got. It doesn't, I don't, yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 8 McGeedy, then, yeah, I feel like I might know Duffy. We need the club because I've sort of seen clubs recently.
We need the clubs. Oh, Christ.

Speaker 8 Oh, no, I just.

Speaker 10 Sunderland or Everton.

Speaker 8 Oh, God. He played for.

Speaker 8 He came back to Sunderland, though.

Speaker 1 Yeah, then he went back to Everton.

Speaker 8 Did he came back from Russia to Sunderland?

Speaker 10 Did he say it?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm home in a place I've never.

Speaker 8 Well, we've got a two-point lead to take into the final round. So

Speaker 8 I think we can gamble here.

Speaker 1 Should we just go with that, McGeedy-Sunderland? Yeah. We've got nothing else concrete.

Speaker 8 To Sunderland.

Speaker 13 Aiden McGeedy to Sunderland.

Speaker 13 Aiden McGeedy is a Glaswegian.

Speaker 2 Ah!

Speaker 13 That accent, that accent's a Dublin accent. He did mention the player.
It was Damien Duff.

Speaker 13 So, but where? Any idea? The club? Shelborne? He did manage Shells recently, but he came back, finished his career. If you were to say, the most successful Irish team recently.
Don't worry about it.

Speaker 13 Shamar Grovers. Yeah.

Speaker 13 So

Speaker 13 I would never have got the club, would we, lads?

Speaker 8 Never have got it.

Speaker 13 Yeah, Damien Duff, Shamar Grovers, potentially pretty deep.

Speaker 13 Yeah, he's got a fairly distinct South Dublin accent. Cot you out there, but three from five.

Speaker 2 Wow.

Speaker 8 Another superb round from Korea we go. Clichés leads seven points to five.
We'll be back very shortly for the climactic round three.

Speaker 8 Oh, look at that!

Speaker 8 That is wonderful!

Speaker 8 Welcome back to Football Clichés, the 22nd Football Cliches quiz. It's clichés 7, Career We Go 5.
We're going into round 3.

Speaker 8 Cliches will be rolling out happy hunting grounds for the opponents and they in turn will be giving us career we go. Right, a recap of the format of happy hunting grounds.

Speaker 8 We're going to give you a choice of a difficulty level between 1 and 3. Based on that choice, we'll give you a combination of Premier League Club and Premier League Stadium.

Speaker 8 You will have to tell us who has scored for that club at that stadium and which season. And there will be no half points for just naming the player either.

Speaker 8 You've got to get everything to get the points. There will be no answers from the 2024-25 season allowed.
And you will not be allowed to choose Erling Harland.

Speaker 8 We're done with him.

Speaker 8 That goes some way to appease Charlie, but not all the way, I should say. And right, we're going to interchange our questions for this final round.
Bobby, talk us through Career We Go.

Speaker 11 Yeah, cheers, Adam. We'll simply read out a player's CV in order of a club's career where where they started at.
I'll give you the first two clubs. If you get it after that, it's three points.

Speaker 11 The next set of clubs, if you get it after that, it's two points. And then the remaining clubs, if you need, will be one point.

Speaker 8 Secretly believe that is actually a better quiz format than ours, but I don't want to. Anyway, it doesn't matter.
Right. Third round begins here.
Question one for you, Karewigo.

Speaker 8 Do you want a difficulty level of one, two, or three?

Speaker 11 Right. Joe, me and Amo will discuss this.

Speaker 11 Aimo, are you back in a three, or do you want to ease in with a two? What are you thinking?

Speaker 14 I'm tempted by a three, but maybe we should just go two because we do have five.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 11 we'll start with a two, please, Adam.

Speaker 8 Okay, you're going for level two. At level three, I can tell you would have been Leeds United at St.
James's Park.

Speaker 14 I could tell you nearly every Leeds player has quite at St. James's Park for a bonus point.

Speaker 14 But yeah.

Speaker 8 I guarantee if I go into my WhatsApp now, I'll have a message from Charlie saying, Amos, what's Leeds? Can you just change that one?

Speaker 8 Anyway, you've chosen level two, and that is Newcastle United at Highbury.

Speaker 11 Okay,

Speaker 11 Newcastle at Highbury. Okay, so

Speaker 8 remember that year, please.

Speaker 11 I remember a year. Didn't Shearer score a couple? And it was like the first time Newcastle had won in London or something for ages, or won Arsenal.

Speaker 11 And I believe that would have been 0102, maybe.

Speaker 14 I think they finished fourth in 0102 or third, didn't they?

Speaker 11 definitely remember Shearer scoring.

Speaker 11 Can you think of any others before we...

Speaker 14 No, I'm trying to think early 90s, Andy Cole,

Speaker 14 possibly. You know, because Arsenal weren't as good.
Yeah. But Shearer was probably...

Speaker 11 Yeah, I don't know if I've got the years mixed up here because Arsenal won the double O2. Do they lose at home to...
I've got something in my memory that Arsenal lost to Newcastle.

Speaker 11 It was the first time Newcastle had won at Arsenal or in London randomly

Speaker 11 for a while. So maybe we'll just go Shearer 0102.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I think.

Speaker 14 Good as any.

Speaker 11 All right, we'll go Alan Shearer 0102.

Speaker 8 Alan Shearer 0102. Arsenal won, Newcastle United 3.
Goalscorers that day. Cometh the hour, cometh the man, Andy O'Brien.

Speaker 2 At the death, Laurent Rebert.

Speaker 8 And four minutes from time, Alan Shearer.

Speaker 11 Okay. Oh, Christ.

Speaker 12 And you're spotting.

Speaker 1 It's wrong about that London record. That wasn't.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that was a thing, right? Yeah, wasn't it? Yeah,

Speaker 11 it was London, not just Arsenal, wasn't it?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think so.

Speaker 1 A lot of capital punishment for Nick Arsenal before that game.

Speaker 8 They went top of the league, I think, didn't they, after that game?

Speaker 1 Quite possibly, because they were knocking around.

Speaker 1 It was also the game Henri went mad at the end of it because I think it was Graham Pohl sent off Ray Parla in the first half and he had to be held back. And Robson called Wenger a bad loser.

Speaker 2 Anyway, yeah. It's seven all.

Speaker 8 Good start to round three. Let's have our first question, please.

Speaker 11 Okay, and as always, what we always do, these are players who have played in the Premier League. So for player number one, first two clubs are Boa Vista and Freya Munde.

Speaker 8 Could you spell Freya Munde for me, please?

Speaker 11 F-R-E-A-M-U-N-D-E.

Speaker 14 Wow.

Speaker 1 Freya Munde. Boa Vista are going out of business, I sort of say.

Speaker 1 But we're not going to get off that, are we? Off Boa Vista and Freya Munde, really?

Speaker 8 No, I was encouraged by Boa Vista, but not by Freya Munde whatsoever. We'll have to take the next two clubs, please, Bobby.

Speaker 11 Okay, the next two clubs are Porto and Chelsea.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 1 So that could be any of like Paolo Ferreira or Carvalhio or Manisha.

Speaker 8 Thiago.

Speaker 1 Manishe, yeah.

Speaker 8 Tiago was a Benficaman.

Speaker 1 He was Benfica.

Speaker 2 Okay, so it's Ferreira.

Speaker 1 Or who is the one you said, oh, Manishe, yeah.

Speaker 8 And the others?

Speaker 8 They were the main ones, weren't they? Carvalhio.

Speaker 8 There's also...

Speaker 8 Who was the right back? Del Rorno.

Speaker 1 No, he was left. Spanish left back.

Speaker 8 Is Welsh.

Speaker 1 Not Ferreira, another one.

Speaker 8 No, played...

Speaker 8 He dug his studs into a Liverpool player's back by the corner final.

Speaker 1 Oh, yes, Basingua.

Speaker 8 Yeah. And he came from Porto, I understand.

Speaker 2 So we've got four options here, which is total.

Speaker 2 We're in...

Speaker 8 What have we got?

Speaker 8 Level? It's seven or isn't it?

Speaker 1 Now, yeah. We need to just try and take the point because we don't know.

Speaker 8 Four players is too many to choose from.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I have no idea which of those.

Speaker 8 Let's take the one point. But we will take the final two clubs, please.

Speaker 11 The final two are QPR

Speaker 2 and Trump's Sport.

Speaker 1 So it'll be Basingua, won't it?

Speaker 8 Wow. Okay, Jose Basingua, please.

Speaker 11 Jose Basingua for one point is correct. Well played.
Well salted.

Speaker 2 Salvage.

Speaker 2 Kept ourselves in front. Yep, good.

Speaker 8 Right, career we go. You trail by a point as we go into the second question.
Level one, two, or three?

Speaker 11 Should we go for a three,

Speaker 14 I think let's go for a little three and see if we can get ahead.

Speaker 11 All right, we'll go for a three.

Speaker 8 Okay, for three points. Sunderland at Stamford Bridge.

Speaker 2 Oh,

Speaker 11 um, okay.

Speaker 1 Barini.

Speaker 11 Well, no, there was Anua, Welbeck, and one other. They won 3-0 in.

Speaker 14 Yeah. What was the season?

Speaker 11 Oh, 9-10, was it?

Speaker 14 The season, Liverpool were going to win the league, and then Gerrard slipped. Was that 13-14?

Speaker 11 13-14.

Speaker 14 Chelsea lost at home to Sunderland. It was like the first defeat Jose had at home for Chelsea or

Speaker 14 something mad. And it was, I think it was Fabio Burini scored a penalty or someone scored a penalty.

Speaker 11 Fair.

Speaker 13 Burini's really familiar, but Bobby, did you say Welbeck there?

Speaker 11 Yeah, so Wellbeck, I'm pretty sure Welbeck was on loan at Sunderland. I can't, if it was neither 9-10 or 10-11.
And Anua scored like a little

Speaker 11 amazing run.

Speaker 2 That

Speaker 11 I'm not sure on the year. If you know the year, it's either 9-10 or 10-11 and it will annoy me.
I'm probably 10-11 because Chelsea won the league in 9-10, didn't they?

Speaker 11 So I would go either Anua or Welbeck 10-11 or Barini 13-14. I'll let you decide.

Speaker 14 Oh my God.

Speaker 14 It's just a very vivid watching it in a pub.

Speaker 14 It was... Oh, my God.

Speaker 11 That was Mourinho's first season back, and I don't think he'd lost at home before then. So it probably scanned.
And Liverpool won the league.

Speaker 14 Yeah, because I was watching with a Liverpool fan, and he basically thought they'd won the league that day, which they didn't. But we'll go with that.
Let's go with that.

Speaker 11 Yeah, why not?

Speaker 8 Okay, so we got Fabio Barini 13-14.

Speaker 11 Yep.

Speaker 8 Chelsea, one,

Speaker 8 Sunderland, two. Goalscorers that day.

Speaker 12 Connor Wickham and Fabio Berini.

Speaker 2 Oh, yes, Amo. Oh, my play.
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 14 There we are. That's why I'm here.

Speaker 2 That's why I've got the call.

Speaker 11 Unbelievable.

Speaker 8 The pendulum swings again. 10-8 to career we go.
Let's have our second question. Bobby, you would have been right.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you were right, Bobby.

Speaker 12 Oh, well done, Bobs.

Speaker 2 Was it Telson?

Speaker 8 I should have gone for 09-10. It was Chelsea 7, Sunderland 2.

Speaker 11 Oh, right, okay. It was 10-11.
And it was Anua, wasn't it? Anua.

Speaker 1 Scored that dribble.

Speaker 2 And Welbeck. Wellbeck.
Asamoa Jan.

Speaker 11 That's it. Asamoa Jan.
That's it. Number three.

Speaker 1 That was the Zendon dad dancing goal, I believe.

Speaker 11 Yes. Yeah.

Speaker 11 We'll come back coming.

Speaker 8 Just when you think you can't add any more extra

Speaker 2 stage.

Speaker 2 Absolutely amazing.

Speaker 8 i watched it in the uh

Speaker 11 okay so your second player first club news old boys and estudiantes

Speaker 8 um now i'm gonna offer something here which i don't know whether they would do this or not but you might be interested to know lads that i am an almost daily player of the career we go daily game not every i'm most days i'll just go on there and anyone take one from their daily game they did recently have gabriel Heinze who played for who and I it was Newell's Old Boys and I went I went for someone else another Argentinian player and it ended up being Gabriel Heintzer but I but I

Speaker 8 don't think that's enough to go for the full three.

Speaker 8 And you remember it being both there was these two clubs I don't remember a studio I don't remember who was second but I remember I remember the first club was definitely the first club was definitely Newell's.

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 8 I believe

Speaker 8 Juan Sebastian Veron played for Estudiantes. We're going to have to take the next two aren't we? Yeah I don't think he played for Newell.
So either way, I don't think we've got enough confidence here.

Speaker 8 Yeah, let's play relatively safe. Let's have two more clubs.

Speaker 11 I think we can get this. Okay, and that daily games over at querygo.com.
Nice back to day.

Speaker 11 All right, next set of clubs. Deportivo La Caruña, West Ham on loan.
Okay. Harassing Santander.

Speaker 1 Is that Diego Tristan then?

Speaker 2 Must be that.

Speaker 1 Or Pandiani. I always get those two confused, but I think it's Tristan.

Speaker 8 Tristan was Spanish, wasn't he? Tristan was Spanish. So he was a man.

Speaker 1 Oh, so I might think of Pandiani then.

Speaker 8 Yeah, El Rifle himself.

Speaker 8 He played for Birmingham, though, later, who may well appear. So you gave us three clubs there, Bobby.
Was that intentional?

Speaker 11 Yeah, yeah. It was a slightly longer career.
So I'll just...

Speaker 8 So West Ham was alone, did you say? Yeah. Depotivo.
Tristan obviously definitely played for Depotivo.

Speaker 1 So Pandiani...

Speaker 8 Did Pandiani go to West Ham alone? Pandiani went to Birmingham.

Speaker 1 He went to Birmingham. Okay, so...
I mean, it feels like he could pay for it.

Speaker 8 The manager, was Scaloni... Was Scaloni...

Speaker 2 He wasn't on loan. Scaloni.

Speaker 8 Wasn't on loan. Was he loan?

Speaker 8 Loan from Depot. Was he alone? Don't rule out the loan at all, to be honest.
He played in the FA Cup final. He's the one who gave the ball away.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, he is.

Speaker 1 Fuck.

Speaker 8 Yeah, we shouldn't be focusing on strikers necessarily. Who's the other guy who also played for Birmingham as well?

Speaker 1 So what was the club you said, Bobby, after West Ham? I'm sure it won't help, but.

Speaker 11 It was Russing Santander.

Speaker 8 Scaloni is who I've got in my head. Do we risk it?

Speaker 1 But I know what you mean about it seeming like, was it really a loan? Because he made that impact with the giving the ball away. But there's no reason that wouldn't mean he was on loan.

Speaker 8 Who's that other player, Dave? Who are you thinking of? I can't remember his name. That's the central one.
Any clues about him whatsoever? Like a little number 10-y type.

Speaker 1 You think of like Lanzini or

Speaker 8 Serate or Earliga. Maybe it's

Speaker 8 no.

Speaker 8 Should we just go... So if we get the one point, we'll be

Speaker 1 losing still.

Speaker 8 We'll be one point behind, right? Yeah, it's very own question. What is this question two well yeah all right let's do let's do the last

Speaker 8 chunk of clubs i think so i think so yeah yeah

Speaker 2 go go for it make your case

Speaker 8 did he what did he did he play for deportivo like i have a memory

Speaker 8 not a clue all i know he's argentinian and he played for west hand yeah i couldn't tell if it was lone or not the other thing is like what clubs are going to come that are going to all of a sudden give it to us like post racing racing santander no it's a point you know

Speaker 1 well they will if it's another player yeah they won't if it's him exactly.

Speaker 8 Scaloni, no chance. Um, I think let's go for one and then keep in touch.
We've still got three questions left.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the only thing to think about is threes are gonna be like threes are hard to get to go off to club. That's tricky.
So, we kind of need to, in some ways, we need to capitalize.

Speaker 8 But nothing,

Speaker 8 it will be on your head if we go for skelone now.

Speaker 1 All right, let's get let's get more then.

Speaker 2 Let's get more.

Speaker 1 Well, just be I don't like, I'm not 100% sure, I'm yeah, fairly sure.

Speaker 11 So, right. The final few clubs, I think, as

Speaker 11 Dave said, I don't think it will help you much, but it is Lazio, Mallorca on loan, and Atalanta.

Speaker 2 Bloody hell.

Speaker 8 I think it can't be Scaloni, can it?

Speaker 2 Why? Just a bit

Speaker 8 glamorous for a defender, isn't it? Lazio?

Speaker 2 Why would he have gone there?

Speaker 8 It feels very number 10-y, but who else have we got left?

Speaker 1 But what's the logic there?

Speaker 8 Why do those clubs need a fullback any less than they need a number 10?

Speaker 1 Italian literature got loads of defenders.

Speaker 8 Italians, aren't they?

Speaker 1 They don't need to import South Americans. No, exactly.

Speaker 8 It didn't strike me as someone who had that sort of career, but I don't know anything about Leonor Scaloni's career. So that's all I've got.
So

Speaker 8 it's on all of our heads now, Leonor Scaloni. We're going to have to go with something, aren't we? I mean, we've basically got...
It's basically...

Speaker 8 I mean, Scaloni is the only name we've really just to rule out.

Speaker 1 No, I've said about that a million times. Pandiani, he didn't play for West Ham.

Speaker 8 I don't think he did. I think he was just Birmingham.

Speaker 2 I think he was, yeah.

Speaker 1 Only you think he played. Only he hasn't said Birmingham.
Well, let's let's go Scaloni. We don't have anything else, do we?

Speaker 8 We're going to go for Leonor Scaloni, Bobby.

Speaker 11 Leonor Scaloni is correct on one point. So I thought, Charlie, you talked you into the two-pointer there.

Speaker 11 But yeah, Scaloni, memorable lanespell. Like, genuinely quite a memorable lane spell at West Ham.
Famously gave the ball away to Gerard, didn't he? But yeah, Leonor Scaloni, World Cup winning manager.

Speaker 11 I'll take it.

Speaker 8 I'll take it. It's all right.
In this scenario, a point is a point. Right.
It's Career We Go 10. Football clichés 9.
Question 3 for Career We Go. What difficulty level would you like?

Speaker 11 I say we stick with the threes, do you reckon?

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 14 I think so. Yeah, why not?

Speaker 11 We'll go for a three, please, Adam.

Speaker 8 Right, to take a commanding four-point lead in the final round. It's Chelsea at the DW.

Speaker 11 Oh, Crest

Speaker 11 both.

Speaker 13 Crest bowl at the opening day, wasn't it? Against Wigan.

Speaker 2 Five or six. No,

Speaker 11 oh, Christ.

Speaker 14 Well, Leeds played Wigan

Speaker 14 in 04-05, so I think they went up that season.

Speaker 12 You're right.

Speaker 11 It's 05-06.

Speaker 14 It was Jose's second season. Yeah.

Speaker 11 Scored like a great left-foot curler, didn't he?

Speaker 13 Last minute or something.

Speaker 13 Was it Wigan were just up that year?

Speaker 14 Yeah. Yeah, it was their first game.

Speaker 11 Yeah. All right.

Speaker 11 We'll go Crespo 0506.

Speaker 8 Crespo 0506. Wigan-0, Chelsea, one.
Goalscorer in the 90th minute. Aernan Crespo.

Speaker 2 Well favorite, that's good.

Speaker 8 Wow, well done.

Speaker 11 Wow, okay.

Speaker 8 That's really good. Happy hunting.

Speaker 1 That's a proper getting one. Spot on.

Speaker 8 13-9.

Speaker 8 This is huge. Right.
Question three, please.

Speaker 11 Okay.

Speaker 11 So this player is slightly more clubs, so I'm going to give you three here. First clubs: Botev Voratsa,

Speaker 11 Siska Sophia,

Speaker 11 and Servet.

Speaker 8 Okay, could you spell the first one for me, please?

Speaker 11 Yeah, B-O-T-E-V-V-R-A-T-S-A.

Speaker 8 Vratsa, yeah.

Speaker 11 Then Sophia and Servette.

Speaker 25 Servette.

Speaker 2 Jesus.

Speaker 8 I mean, are they Bulgarian?

Speaker 2 Bulgarian? Yeah.

Speaker 8 Bulgarian who went to Switzerland and then turned up in the Premier League. Right,

Speaker 8 think of your Bulgarians first of all.

Speaker 1 I mean, yeah.

Speaker 8 Berbatov didn't play for Servette, right? He would have been at Laborkush in the early doors. Yeah, I don't

Speaker 1 know of him playing for them.

Speaker 2 Petrov.

Speaker 8 Petrov. Stillian or Martin.
Stillian or Martin. Dutch or otherwise.

Speaker 2 Oh,

Speaker 2 God.

Speaker 1 Was like a Stoichkov or an Ivanov?

Speaker 8 Didn't play in the Premier League.

Speaker 1 Didn't play in the Premier Preparation. Do we know this guy played in the Premier League?

Speaker 2 All of them played in the Premier League.

Speaker 1 They all played in the Premier League.

Speaker 8 Yeah, man.

Speaker 8 Just chuck some Bulgarians around first before we commit to a two-pointer. Not that many others, are there? Petrov feels good.

Speaker 1 Stillian.

Speaker 2 Distinctively more.

Speaker 1 I feel, yeah.

Speaker 8 Where was Martin Petrov before Man City? Where did they get him from? It would have been Savet. No, I think.

Speaker 1 No, he'd have gone somewhere else if he'd gone.

Speaker 2 Spain?

Speaker 1 He feels more Stillian, but based on nothing.

Speaker 8 Any more Bulgarians?

Speaker 1 I can't think of any other famous Premier League Bulgarians.

Speaker 8 Should we go for two points? I think we have to.

Speaker 1 Yeah, at some point that we're going to have to roll the dice, I think.

Speaker 8 Sure thing.

Speaker 8 It's all right. We've got three.

Speaker 10 This is the first of three final questions.

Speaker 8 We might be okay. Bobby, next clubs, please.

Speaker 11 Okay, so the next three clubs are Wolfsburg, Atletico Madrid, and Manchester City. Okay, so that's

Speaker 8 Martin Petrov. Happy with that?

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 8 Martin Petrov.

Speaker 11 Martin Petrov is correct. Well played.

Speaker 2 That's two points. I've done two in the room.

Speaker 8 Career we go. You lead by 13 points to 11.
question

Speaker 11 four are you going to turn the screw uh should we stick with three

Speaker 14 i i think we just keep going with three all right well it seems to be working yeah why not for a three if it ain't broke don't fix it right for a difficulty level three for three points it's bolt and wanderers at hybrid okay hey the first one that comes to mind which is obviously a very big name is michael ricketts yes i thought he scored 102.

Speaker 14 Yeah, the season he scored loads and then got an England call-up somehow.

Speaker 11 Yes, that's a great shout.

Speaker 11 Was that 0102 or 2000, 2001? I think it was...

Speaker 11 Because he got moved to Middlesbrough,

Speaker 11 maybe 02. I feel like McLaren got him.

Speaker 14 Yeah, he moved to Middlesbrough 2-03 because he ended up at

Speaker 14 leads in 04.

Speaker 11 Yeah. I mean, I'm pleased with that.
There's no...

Speaker 11 Just going through, there's no... Klaus Jensen scored that goal, but that was for Charlton, wasn't it? The sort of long-ranger-ish.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 11 Oh, I do like rickets. Anyone else? Did Rally Jaidi get a last-minute header or something?

Speaker 13 Did Gary Speed score?

Speaker 11 Gary Speed, potentially. I can't picture.

Speaker 11 I can think of a few goals at the Reebok, obviously.

Speaker 14 Yeah, Stelios.

Speaker 11 Stellios, yeah.

Speaker 13 Ricketts sounds good.

Speaker 14 He definitely did score. It's just a season.

Speaker 11 I would veer towards 0102 for Ricketts.

Speaker 13 0102, or what's the other one?

Speaker 11 Or 2000, 2001. But I feel like 0102, I think that's the year, the season he got his England cap, so he must have been.

Speaker 14 He must, yeah. And then he probably got a move off that, and then all went to shit.

Speaker 2 And then here we are.

Speaker 11 Right, we'll go Michael Ricketts, 0102.

Speaker 8 Michael Ricketts, 0102.

Speaker 2 Arsenal 1, Bolton 1.

Speaker 8 Goal scorer 7 minutes from time. Listen, fair play.
It's Michael Ricketts.

Speaker 2 Great work.

Speaker 16 Great work.

Speaker 1 Fucking hell.

Speaker 8 I was Uri Gillering you took the season before that.

Speaker 8 Look at you. What? Listening to you go round the houses of some other players.
Always galling to hear. But no, you're always going to return to Michael Ricketts.
You lead 16-11.

Speaker 8 Lads, we need this one. Question four, please.

Speaker 11 Right, okay. Question four:

Speaker 11 First player. First two clubs here.

Speaker 11 Charlerois

Speaker 11 pronunciation. And KV Michelin.

Speaker 2 Right. Belgian? Yeah.

Speaker 8 Belgian citizen. Loads of Watford players in the last few years have played for Charlerois because we've got a relationship with an agent who

Speaker 8 loves to move players around those clubs. But they're surely not going to pick out any fucking random Watford slug from the last few years.

Speaker 2 It could.

Speaker 8 Don't rule them out picking a Watford slug.

Speaker 1 It could be.

Speaker 1 I feel like Trossard might have played for that second one.

Speaker 8 Charloi, who's the second club?

Speaker 1 Sorry, KV Mechelen. So we need, I mean, we're basically

Speaker 1 we've got a five-point deficit.

Speaker 8 We've got to get two.

Speaker 1 Oh, and even

Speaker 1 two, and they just need a one.

Speaker 2 Um,

Speaker 8 Christ, but then if we get nothing, we can't really risk going for three and getting nothing, can we?

Speaker 1 I guess we've got to make them win it, yeah. So let's go for let's go for two, I guess.

Speaker 8 Next

Speaker 8 clubs be Bobby. If we could sound slightly less crestfallen, that would be great, Yarli.
Just it's fine. It's Christmas, in a way.
Bobby, next clubs, please.

Speaker 11 Next two clubs are Andalect and Newcastle.

Speaker 2 Oof.

Speaker 8 Okay.

Speaker 1 So that could be like a Philippe Albert

Speaker 1 if he's coming straight to the Prem from Belgium.

Speaker 8 Was he a product of the Belgium? Did he not ever play in Switzerland? Was he Belgian? Sorry, yeah, yeah. What? Philippe Albert? Was he Swiss? Belgium? He's a Belgian Belgium.
Oh, fair play.

Speaker 1 So.

Speaker 8 Other Belgians for Newcastle. Can't think of it.

Speaker 8 Mark Hottiger.

Speaker 1 Mark Hotiger.

Speaker 2 Was he...

Speaker 1 No, wait, Mark Hottiger. Wait, was he Swiss?

Speaker 10 He was Swiss, wasn't he?

Speaker 2 He was Swiss.

Speaker 8 Straight back ass.

Speaker 10 He's Swiss.

Speaker 8 Chocolate's chocolate at the end of the day, isn't it?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm just thinking whether Albert, like, did he move to Italy or somewhere first?

Speaker 8 But I don't know where Newcastle signed him from. I don't think it was Andalek, to be honest.
But we don't have a better Belgian.

Speaker 1 Is there a more recent Belgian for Newcastle?

Speaker 1 I mean, he's obviously like a cult hero. I feel like he might have come from Andalex.

Speaker 8 I don't think he was anywhere. He played at USA 94.

Speaker 2 Yeah, which is when he was big. He joined them after that, didn't he?

Speaker 8 Yeah, but I don't think he was playing in Italy or anything like that.

Speaker 1 France.

Speaker 8 And I don't think he was in Germany. So I think.
And Andalex were strong back then.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 8 So I think it's perfectly feasible. Fucking hell.
I think we should sing other Belgian. If we get what's the mass if we get one? Do we have to do that?

Speaker 1 No, then we're done.

Speaker 8 We're done, I'm afraid. Jesus.

Speaker 1 Let's go with it. I mean, unless you've got any other ideas.
No.

Speaker 8 Just quickly, just quickly. Any goalkeepers?

Speaker 8 Oh, yeah, yeah. Belgian goalkeepers.

Speaker 1 From the low countries, they had cruel.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Belgians.

Speaker 8 Fucking Belgium. Let's go for Philippe Albert.

Speaker 8 He's a cult hero. I don't mind getting this wrong if we go for someone like that.

Speaker 8 If we go for someone peculiar, I think we'd be doing ourselves over. Philippe Albert?

Speaker 11 You lock him in, Philippe Albert?

Speaker 2 Are we?

Speaker 8 Where did he go after Newcastle? Not a clue.

Speaker 1 Not a clue. I mean, he's still, no one gave a shit about him after that.

Speaker 1 There's no recent Belgians either that we're forgetting.

Speaker 8 They haven't had a Belgian international, like one of their good generation. No, none of the generations.

Speaker 8 I don't think.

Speaker 1 And Belgium ceased to be relevant for a long period in between in a

Speaker 1 football sense.

Speaker 8 There's no one that's like...

Speaker 8 He's

Speaker 8 because you know Newcastle have a habit of being one of those clubs where players go there for like a weird little loan spell and then end up playing for another British club that we all remember.

Speaker 1 Like Mikhail Marino, yeah.

Speaker 8 Yeah, and Saha and Ivan Tony.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that is possible.

Speaker 8 Someone who just pitched up there for a few games.

Speaker 8 I think we should go for Philippe Albert.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's just do it.

Speaker 8 The answer, Bobby, we think, is Philippe Albert.

Speaker 11 Philippe Albert? Okay, the next two clubs are Fulham on loan and ended at Charlois. It is Philippe Albert.

Speaker 2 Well played.

Speaker 11 Fuck off. Philippe Valbert.

Speaker 2 Who remembers Philippe Albert at Fulham?

Speaker 8 Wasn't that when they were still in like div one?

Speaker 1 Like before they got promoted? Yeah, when they're part of their like glamorous

Speaker 1 took on Keegan.

Speaker 11 Yeah, 98, 99. I think it might have been Keegan.
Obviously had him at Newcastle.

Speaker 2 So yeah.

Speaker 11 Philippe Albert, well played. Almost talked yourself out of it with some on some obscure names there, but Philip Albert, well played.
That's two points into Football College shows.

Speaker 8 Okay, the score. We're hanging in there.

Speaker 2 We've taken it to the final day.

Speaker 2 Don't know what you've said to do.

Speaker 8 I haven't even bothered getting my transistor radio out for this one.

Speaker 8 Career we go. It's your final question of the final round.
You need only a point. It depends how much of a flourish you want to go out with.
But what are you going to go for?

Speaker 11 We'll stick with the threes, shall we?

Speaker 14 I think, yeah, let's keep going with the threes.

Speaker 14 It's been an enjoyable round, I have to say. So let's keep it going.

Speaker 8 If you go get this and we get three, it's tie break time and we'll have to do this all again right

Speaker 8 for three points to to march over the line it's leicester at anfield oof oh

Speaker 11 yeah we'll go for level one if that's right

Speaker 2 that bobby would have been liverpool at old trafford

Speaker 11 um lester leicester at anfield i initially thought of that geezer who scored two hand goals is it valve face obviously no um right

Speaker 11 leicester at anfield Surely that's...

Speaker 8 I think that's how his Wikipedia page starts, Velfast. He is the geezer who scores who have got

Speaker 14 the season they won the league, they lost at Anfield, didn't they?

Speaker 11 Great.

Speaker 11 Vardy scored, but that was a

Speaker 2 valley.

Speaker 13 Did they score at Anfield away, or did they just lose?

Speaker 14 I think they lost 1-0, possibly. Okay.

Speaker 11 Okay. Right.
Okay. So, what about earlier? What about...

Speaker 8 Still alive, lads?

Speaker 14 Still alive.

Speaker 8 Charlie's perking up.

Speaker 2 Shit.

Speaker 11 What about like, you know, the Heskey score there before he moved? The Tony Cotty score in 98, 99. Steve Guppy.

Speaker 11 Steve Guffy.

Speaker 14 More. I mean, Vardy, obviously, is

Speaker 14 an option.

Speaker 11 It could even be Vardy, like 16, 17.

Speaker 14 What about the COVID season when Liverpool were shit?

Speaker 13 There was one season as well where Ujoa got top scorer. I wonder.
Did he? That's...

Speaker 11 Right, that was 14, 15, was it?

Speaker 13 I think he scored, we had it recently, I think he scored 11 goals. Yeah.

Speaker 11 And I don't think Liverpool were that good until

Speaker 11 17-ish.

Speaker 13 I have absolutely no recollection of him scoring that.

Speaker 14 No, and Vardy. Vardi has scored more than 11.

Speaker 13 Yeah, Vardi seems... I can picture it.

Speaker 11 Should we go maybe like Vardy the year after, like 16, 17 or something? Or 17, 18.

Speaker 14 Let me just have one more little thing.

Speaker 11 Yeah, let's go for a it.

Speaker 2 Fuck.

Speaker 11 Why did we go three?

Speaker 2 That's all right.

Speaker 14 Damari Gray is in my head, but that could just be absolutely mental.

Speaker 11 Didn't he score? Did he score it? Oh, Trafford, he scored

Speaker 11 a screamer.

Speaker 14 Maybe I'm thinking of that.

Speaker 13 I know this is a tangent, but didn't Gerard sign him for a Letty Fac? So potentially.

Speaker 2 Maybe. I like Anfield.
Yeah.

Speaker 13 Did he score at Anfield? He said, I'll have a bit of that.

Speaker 11 His audition at Anfield to get it out of there.

Speaker 2 Go with it, I would say. If that's what you're saying,

Speaker 2 you seem such logical guys and we blew it past you.

Speaker 11 I don't know. Shall we go?

Speaker 14 We probably just have to go Vardy and a year.

Speaker 11 The year after.

Speaker 13 Go Vardy and pick a year where Liverpool didn't perform as well.

Speaker 11 All right, we'll go Jamie Vardy 16-17.

Speaker 8 We're going for Jamie Vardy 16-17. This is to win it.

Speaker 2 Liverpool for

Speaker 8 Leicester one.

Speaker 11 Come on, Vards.

Speaker 8 Goal scorer after 38 minutes. It's Jamie Vardy.

Speaker 11 Oh, man.

Speaker 11 That was lucky.

Speaker 8 19 points in the clichés quiz. I don't, I'm pretty sure that's a record of some kind.

Speaker 1 That was proper happy hunting grounds. That was very impressive.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Very, very good.

Speaker 11 That was great. I mean, that was a total guess, but the hubris of not going for one as well.

Speaker 2 I really thought I was going to bite you in the ass.

Speaker 8 Bobby, you were on pretty safe ground, I can tell you, because Zavadi scored there in 1718 as well. Okay.

Speaker 11 In a 2-1 defeat, so you were.

Speaker 12 Did Mary Grey get many?

Speaker 8 No, I can confirm he did not, nor did Leonardo Joa. Anyway, 1913, could we just have our final question in? Yeah, please.

Speaker 11 We will. All right.
So the final player, he started his career. His first three clubs were Dynamo Zagreb, then he was on loan at Croatia Cesvete and on loan at Inter Zabrezic.
Zaplazic.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 11 um croatia says vete and inter zaplezic

Speaker 8 christ dario cerna who knows somebody can't play a prem did he yeah i mean any number of premier league croatians yeah harry rednap would fucking love this round um what about uh modric did he didn't he do the rounds in croatia before he sort of found his feet oh no i think he played in bosnia he played in bosnia are one of those teams not bosnian can we hear them again please not the second one unless it's a sort of a real trick.

Speaker 11 Yeah, so Croatia Sezvete and Inter Saples, Zaplezic, Z-A-P-R, E-S-I-C, Zaplezic.

Speaker 2 We've got obviously nothing to lose.

Speaker 8 Let's go for Modric. Let's try and get some glory.

Speaker 1 Possible that he played that's a Bosnian club.

Speaker 8 I've got, I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what, Bobby, we're going to go for Luka Modric, but before you tell us whether we were right or not, let's hear the rest of the clubs.

Speaker 8 Okay, so we're going to go for Luka Modric, who I'm sure did the rounds early doors in the Balkans.

Speaker 11 All right, so you've locked in Modric, but I'll go through the rest of this player's career. So, the next three clubs were Arsenal, Shaktar, Donetsk, and Flamengo.

Speaker 8 Oh, no,

Speaker 8 it's Bloody Eduardo.

Speaker 2 Bloody Eduardo.

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 11 Bloody Eduardo. Yeah, so Eduardo the Silva ended his career at Atletico Paranense and Ligia Warsaw.
29 goals in 64 games for Croatia. Eduardo, the silver.
There we go. So, unlucky,

Speaker 1 you have to go with Nilia.

Speaker 13 Luca Madrid did have a long spell at a Bosnian team.

Speaker 11 Knowledge.

Speaker 8 What use would have two points been, anyway, really?

Speaker 8 A absolutely storming win for Kariwigo, taking the all-time title Between Us, the Calcutta Cup of the Kiche.

Speaker 1 It is a very rugby score, that as well.

Speaker 8 1913. I've got no complaints about that whatsoever.
That was a brilliant quiz. And just goes to show that Karuigo are the unparalleled football quizzes out there.
You do it as your bread and butter.

Speaker 8 And it shows. It shows.

Speaker 1 Come talking about football language, boys.

Speaker 8 We need to bring the clichés round back, don't we?

Speaker 8 Bobby, well done. How'd you feel?

Speaker 11 Yeah, that was really, really enjoyable buzz. And I think Aemo, bringing in AMO for Theo, no offense, Theo, for that last round was a real, real help.
Yeah.

Speaker 8 You fear for Theo, really, after this, don't you?

Speaker 2 You do.

Speaker 1 That was huge that last round. Superb from you guys.
But thank you.

Speaker 1 Great questions throughout.

Speaker 2 So, really enjoyable.

Speaker 8 Really enjoyable. Joe, that means that you take the cliché's quiz mantle into 2026.
You'll be back, though, right? This isn't the end of things. Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 13 Yeah, and fair play to the lads because I was an absolute passenger for that last round.

Speaker 13 I did remember the Crespo goal, but I helpfully said against Wigan.

Speaker 13 Yes,

Speaker 13 it was at the DW stadium. But yeah, no, really, really enjoyed it.
And yeah,

Speaker 13 always up for doing it again.

Speaker 8 And finally, elite operator AMO, superb from you. But now I feel

Speaker 8 my conscience is completely clear about planting a clip art Christmas tree over the A in your football cliché's logo.

Speaker 14 Listen, that's fair. And after that Michael Ricketts guess, I'm happy.
You can do whatever you want.

Speaker 14 I'm on cloud nine after that.

Speaker 14 I am buzzing. I am buzzing after that.

Speaker 8 Well, I'm glad someone's happy. Thanks to you, Dave Walker, as well.
Thank you. Thanks to you, Charlie Eccleshare.
Thank you. And thanks to everyone for listening.

Speaker 8 A reminder, if you want to play our Christmas quiz live on the 28th of December, sign up at football cliches.com/slash Xmas. See you Tuesday.

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