Football Cliches - A show about the language of football The Athletic UK

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker explore the curious coverage of footballers' gestures of humanity by selecting the most traditional "classy touches" on and off the pitch, from goalkeepers refusing to celebrate their freak goals against their opposite numbers to the complex art of muted celebrations.
Meanwhile, the Adjudication Panel compare some charmingly obscure official club merchandise and one listener gets in touch to vent his fury about the way footballers clap.

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker assemble for this week's Adjudication Panel. On the agenda: Eurovision's football parallels, perhaps the greatest ever real-life case of a goal-shy striker "needing one to go in off his backside", the true definition of "going down in instalments" and an astonishing chant by fans of Bishop's Stortford FC from 2007.
Meanwhile, the panel discuss whether it is acceptable for a fan to wear a signed shirt to a match and share their disbelief over Alastair Campbell's 2018 football/terrorism novel "Saturday Bloody Saturday".

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and Jack Pitt-Brooke select the most magical all-time FA Cup line-up of all, with fierce competition in goal, a rollercoaster of Cup fortunes in defence, a truly romantic midfield, a cast-iron choice up front and one very unfortunately-named referee to keep them all in line.
Meanwhile, the Adjudication Panel decide whether Man City's deal for Erling Haaland is the most last-piece-of-the-jigsawy signing of all time and wonder how much longer Aston Villa Football

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and Nick Miller form this week's Adjudication Panel. On the agenda this time: the Spanish media rattled by an unexpected English voice, the number of departing players needed for a "fire sale" or a "clearout", a spectacular hat-trick of curious penalty punditry, the most pantomime crowd noise of the season, and why Schalke should adopt the Birds of a Feather theme tune as their pre-match anthem.Meanwhile, the panel semi-successfully attempt to establish The Official Scale of Terminology for the Ball Hitting or Missing the Woodwork.

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker select a lineup of the most classic footballer-related adjectives, from "eccentric" goalkeepers to "impish" forwards via "talismanic" midfielders.
Meanwhile, the Adjudication Panel pick out the classic protagonists of a textbook pitch invasion, cast doubt over the Premier League futures of some emerging transfer-gossip stars and take a deep dive into Richard Keys and Andy Gray's 2002 appearance on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker form the Adjudication Panel once again. On the agenda this time: Snooker players wearing their "scoring boots", the enduring mini-obsession with managers buying Jose Mourinho a bottle of wine, the definition of a footballing "linchpin", positions that footballers can be "by trade" and a concerning instalment of Keys & Gray Corner.
Meanwhile, the panel debate when a club is allowed to tweet "The calm before the storm" ahead of a big game and the complex threshold at which it is acceptable for a live TV game to focus on the stadium scoreboard.