60 episodes

The all-new home of the Football Clichés podcast.
Adam Hurrey explores the glorious and unique language of football: the words, the phrases, the mannerisms and, above all, the clichés.

Football Cliches Adam Hurrey & Goalhanger

    • Sport
    • 4.9 • 333 Ratings

The all-new home of the Football Clichés podcast.
Adam Hurrey explores the glorious and unique language of football: the words, the phrases, the mannerisms and, above all, the clichés.

    The Adjudication Panel: "Why can't they go on and win it?"

    The Adjudication Panel: "Why can't they go on and win it?"

    Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker for the Adjudication Panel. The agenda includes: mangled football chants in sportswear adverts, a textbook crisis-deepener for Manchester United, some re-recorded commentary curiosity, more Football Names in Things and a brief history of last pieces of Premier League jigsaws. 
    Meanwhile, the panel examine a use of "who else but" for a goalscorer in ice hockey and reassess the "a goal worthy of" threshold.
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    • 43 min
    The Adjudication Panel: Mid-2000s Premier League antiques & how the square goalpost met its end

    The Adjudication Panel: Mid-2000s Premier League antiques & how the square goalpost met its end

    Adam Hurrey is joined by David Walker and Tom Williams on a midweek Adjudication Panel. The agenda includes: 1930s musical-inspired chants for Premier League right-backs, the mystery player behind a Premier League Player of the Month trophy on eBay, an unlikely after-dinner-speaking football duo, a perfectly-preserved cultural artefact in the men's toilets at Tranmere Rovers, why the EFL needs to fix its promotion-celebration banners, and much more.
    Meanwhile, the panel enjoy one of European football's cult controversies from Tom's new book Va-Va-Voom: The Modern History of French Football and hear how France has embraced Premier League club nicknames.

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    • 50 min
    The Adjudication Panel: Four-star Haaland & the most elaborate football analogy in modern politics

    The Adjudication Panel: Four-star Haaland & the most elaborate football analogy in modern politics

    Adam Hurrey is joined by David Walker and Nick Miller for the Adjudication Panel. The agenda includes: Erling Haaland confounds football's obsession with the star-rating system, Sky Sports News hunting down Arne Slot, Jamie Carragher on the Toy Story franchise, Peter Crouch misunderstanding rollercoasters and Keys & Gray's new refereeing admin nemesis is revealed.
    Meanwhile, the panel enjoy an above-average moment for football analogies in the political sphere.
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    • 47 min
    Gary Lineker meets Cliches: Why aren't strikers rounding the goalkeeper any more?

    Gary Lineker meets Cliches: Why aren't strikers rounding the goalkeeper any more?

    The pod welcomes Gary Lineker for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks, as the Match of the Day host and England legend chooses his six personal fascinations and irritations of football.
    Among Gary's selections are his growing curiosity about expected goals, the psychology of penalty shootouts, the death of strikers rounding goalkeepers, a not-so-radical solution for quick free kicks, overindulgent TV slow-motion replays and the futile duty of pre-match interviews with managers.
    Meanwhile, the Adjudication Panel bemoan the misuse of "high-flying" for teams who don't need it and ask Gary a very important question about a Match of the Day tradition.

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    • 1 hr 8 min
    The Adjudication Panel: Winning the "hard way" and the Missing Piece of the Jigsaw XI

    The Adjudication Panel: Winning the "hard way" and the Missing Piece of the Jigsaw XI

    Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker for the Adjudication Panel. The agenda includes: whether Arsenal won the north London derby "the hard way", when Sarcastic Pep becomes impossible to separate from Normal Pep, commentators answering their own rhetorical questions, teams "sealing" relegation, more footballspeak at the snooker, a footballer-sounding shampoo innovation and Harry Redknapp opening a local supermarket.
    Meanwhile, the panel analyse a listener's Missing Piece of the Jigsaw XI and enjoy some more vintage Andy Gray co-commentary.
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    • 58 min
    The Football Cliches Quiz XII - The Totally Football Show

    The Football Cliches Quiz XII - The Totally Football Show

    The Football Clichés Quiz is back once again and this month the Clichés team welcome their latest podcast challengers in the form of the Totally Football Show's Michael Cox, Jay Harris and Sasha Goryunov.
    The questions include managers who just know their clubs, Monday Night Football hotbeds, Player of the Month merchants, some more A.I. foreign-language dubbing action, 'bit of both' punditry line-ups and, of course, the Happy Hunting Grounds round.
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    • 1 hr 8 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
333 Ratings

333 Ratings

AnderR250598 ,

Borussia Monchengladtobeback

Was sporadically checking the Athletic feed waiting for you to come back, had bloody missed the move! Much love.

Jim Glav ,

What a football podcast this is by the way

Quite simply the best football podcast going.
A Rolls Royce of a podcast.
Funny, nostalgic, ridiculously knowledgeable…
I bloody love it.

alanmahon_uk ,

So damn listenable

I don’t particularly like podcasts and yet listen to this one religiously.

Meaning it’s so good even people who can’t be bothered with podcasts can be bothered with this one.

That is my review. Keen up the good work.

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