THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 A big week for the concept of "dreamland" 🔊 Mirrors, monologues & monarchs: A cultural review of Man Utd’s latest crisis 🔊 Simon Jordan vs PETA 🔊 @jonawils.bsky.social vs 1950s-set TV footy chat 🔊 MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

New: Football Clichés: Technically dreamland, Man Utd in the mirror & Simon Jordan vs PETA

Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the spiritually correct team to have tried the most shots from the halfway line in Premier Lea...

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“I retired only two years ago, but it’s already like another life that I was playing tennis.” Spoke to Rafael Nadal about the luxe new coffee table book charting his career. The titles, the fashion choices, the injuries. And what comes next: www.nytimes.com/athletic/770...

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 An assortment of Champions League TV highlights 🔊 A delightful nickname for a Scottish League Two striker 🔊 Footballers' names in Aesop’s Fables 🔊 An acoustic version of the Ford Super Sunday music 🔊 MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

New: Football Clichés: Muddled momentum maxims, Fletch on the beach (again) & footballers of Aesop's Fables

Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: an assortment of Champions League television highlights, a delightful nickname for a S...

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Will be a big few days for #buttheproblemsrunfardeeper

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 The inescapable fantasy world of Ozil vs Ludogorets 🔊 Brentford coming within inches of a VAR nightmare 🔊 Cliches pod in Australian dashcam videos 🔊 A deep dive into Diego Gomez’s 51-yarder 🔊 MUCH MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

New: Football Clichés: Spongebob Ozil, high foreheads & a 50-yarder that ticked all the boxes

Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the explosion in AI-generate fantasy versions of Mesut Ozil goals, work-permit concerns in Ber...

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THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Jon Champion struggles with the Marvel universe 🔊 Why Thomas Frank to Fulham just sounds too perfect 🔊 Towering Czech strikers in news stories about burst water pipes 🔊 AND MUCH MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

New: Football Clichés: Jon Champion vs Marvel, Carrick's goal-down demeanour & the Frankness of Fulham

Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: Dave's evening of Watford misery, an unexpected cultural influence of Martin O’Neill...

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THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Liverpool 0 Man City 3: Zero things we learned 🔊 Jon Champion's bi-annual "on toast" seminar 🔊 Fletch in Ukraine? 🔊 An appeal for a footballing musical gem that perhaps never existed 🔊 AND MUCH MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

New: Football Clichés: An unusual Super Sunday anticlimax, Frodo Hargreaves & Harry Kane on bread

Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the holding pattern of awkwardness after Liverpool 0 Man City 3, Lee Dixon gives US viewers a ...

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This idea that the City players have of course done nothing wrong. I mean yes obviously they weren’t the ones doing the cheating, but if you join a club with 115 charges against them - as most of them did - reasonable chance you’re going to be playing for a team in this position!

This is all very weird. Feels like when my six year old is winning a game by cheating and we’re basically all just waiting it out until we can start again

Still feel like it’s nailed on that in Maresca’s presser he’ll do the performative ‘no it’s ok, it’s ok’ as the press officer tells a journalist that there’ll be no further questions on the charges. ‘Impressive from Maresca in difficult circumstances, entirely out of his control.’

He may be 39, but feel like this is the year Djokovic will look back on of the last few with the most regret. He knows he’s the best of the rest and this was the one with by far the most Sinner/Alcaraz-related opportunities.

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Keysey vs Oasis 🔊 England’s nursery-rhyme back four 🔊 Tinpot football association crests 🔊 The greatest pound-for-pound commentator's curse of all time 🔊 AND MUCH MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

New: Football Clichés: Throwing glass at Man City's window, tinpot national badges & a 10/10 commentator's curse

Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: one of the best phone-in callers of the Man City saga so far, Richard Keys vs Liam Gallagher, ...

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Tennis continuing its entirely inconsistent, outcome-focused approach to defaults. Shouldn’t need saying that it shouldn’t take someone getting hurt for a player to get defaulted.

Amazing detail in @jacobwhitehead.bsky.social's piece that the initial documents City submitted 'did not allow text to be copied and pasted.' Just an incredible commitment to being as unhelpful as possible

One of City case’s many baffling elements is the summer. Broadly seems like their huge spend was because a. They genuinely thought they’d get off; b. They thought acting like business as usual might affect verdict; c. They felt like distorting the market one last time All insane

Obviously we don’t know what he knew but the eye-narrowing, gaslighty approach Pep/City have taken throughout to difficult questions has been very reminiscent of Lance Armstrong. And similarly helped by many observers being very compliant

The Premier League/Independent Commission have broken their silence, AND HOW!

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 The fallout from the fallout from the Man City verdict 🔊 Accidentally musical commentary from England vs Spain 🔊 A Polish adverb 🔊 Glenn Hoddle's dinner party 🔊 AND MUCH MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

New: Football Clichés: The non-emergency pod: Tainted vs stained, Polish adverbs & Andy Townsend's pub toilet

Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the finer details of the fallout from the Premier League's verdict on Manchester City's charge...

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It is kind of amazing the way City, partly because of rather than in spite of things like the 115 charges, have been the neutral’s choice most of last decade. Almost the more divorced from reality they were, the fewer feelings they invoked - esp compared to original PL Big Four.

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST Mesut Haaland Dicks: The Listeners Your fascinations & irritations, inc: The body language of an offside striker performatively not interfering with play & why you can be "on a hat-trick" but not "on a red card" @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @nickmiller79.bsky.social

New: Football Clichés: Co-commentator voice ID & performatively not interfering with play: The listeners' loves & hates

Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and Nick Miller entertain this month's listener entries for Mesut Haaland Dicks, as the Clichés faithful nominate their niche footballing fascinations and irritatio...

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THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 The case closes on the Drury of Down Under 🔊 The most likely current Premier League manager to jokingly pretend to walk into the wrong dressing room 🔊 Martin Tyler's 50-year Pompey challenge 🔊 AND MUCH MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @nickmiller79.bsky.social

New: Football Clichés: 35.3% of Earth's land mass, Mourinho's printer & Martin Tyler's five-decade challenge

Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and Nick Miller. On the agenda: More Drurian delivery from Australian football commentary, a geographically earth-shattering ML...

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First time Arsenal have trailed by more than a goal in the league since May 2025. Carabao Cup final the only other time it's happened since

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐙 𝐗𝐗𝐕𝐈 Football Clichés 🆚 The Listeners ❓ Featuring: Premier League Chrisses, the Oceanian Champions League, football men dubbed into Welsh, various nations' Premier League top scorers and, of course, Happy Hunting Grounds

New: Football Clichés: The Football Cliches Quiz XXVI: Cliches vs The Listeners

The 26th edition of the Football Clichés Quiz sees Adam, Charlie and Dave take on trivia-savvy listeners Pat Noone, Sam Huxley and Jonny Sharples.The questions include: Premier League Chrisses, ma...

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THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Pole-vaulting & offside contamination at Old Trafford 🔊 Referees commentating on goals 🔊 An INCREDIBLY familiar-sounding commentator from Down Under 🔊 AND MUCH MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

New: Football Clichés: Offside contamination, yards of confidence & Drury's Down Under doppelganger

LONDON LIVE QUIZ - TICKETS ON GENERAL SALE WEDNESDAY 16TH - ⁠quiz.footballcliches.com⁠Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the ...

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Jack Draper confirms he'll be out for the rest of the year as he recovers from injury. Says via IG that, "I am taking this time to reset and heal so when I return I am 100% ready to go."

Wrote this after the French Open final about tennis' Zverev problem. And the sport's culture of silence www.nytimes.com/athletic/734...

Alexander Zverev's Grand Slam wait is over. His uncomfortable status in tennis lingers

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Emergency story while on pat leave... the slow death of the single-handed backhand 😢 www.nytimes.com/athletic/757...

In tennis, the one-handed backhand’s unwanted Grand Slam milestone is natural selection

For the first time in history, not a single player with a one-handed backhand has reached a major semifinal in a calendar year.

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Emergency story while on pat leave... the slow death of the single-handed backhand 😢 www.nytimes.com/athletic/757...

In tennis, the one-handed backhand’s unwanted Grand Slam milestone is natural selection

For the first time in history, not a single player with a one-handed backhand has reached a major semifinal in a calendar year.

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THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Dean Saunders (AGAIN) on the modern terminology of football 🔊 Commentary to the accidental rhythm of football chants 🔊 Keysey’s Top 6 commentators 🔊 AND MUCH MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

New: Football Clichés: Late doors, John McGinn's trademark finish & accidental commentary football chants

Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: Dean Saunders continues his intermittent campaign against modern football terminology, tinpot ...

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As much as people try and pigeonhole Sabalenka mentally (and athletes in general), the reality is she’s capable of a complete blowout one tournament, hard as nails the next. Human and fallible, basically