How to celebrate an own goal & ball-boy etiquette: The listeners' loves & hates
Adam Hurrey, David Walker and Nick Miller entertain this month's listener entries for Mesut Haaland Dicks, as the Clichés faithful nominate their niche footballing fascinations and irritations. Among...
20 Feb 202552min
Chuckling stadiums, Things-in-Chief and, finally, some actual whispering of it quietly
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the rare sound of a football crowd chuckling in unison, a definitive list of football’s acceptabl...
18 Feb 202552min
Crosses from the 1990s, baseball scores & the death of the managerial "war cry”
Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: Champions League broadcasting quirks, Alan Shearer and the extinct art of crossing the ba...
13 Feb 202554min
Nursery rhymes with Fletch, Clark Kent goalkeeping & under-12s away-day cauldrons
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: accidental nursery rhymes in Champions League commentary, a new Premier League low bar for irony,...
11 Feb 202552min
The Football Cliches Quiz XVII: The Commentators
The Football Clichés Quiz returns for another clash of niche football trivia, as the pod take on Match of the Day commentators James Fielden, Mark Scott and Chris Wise. The questions include: problem...
6 Feb 20251h 26min
The "17th chess piece", the death of the onion bag & coded messages to the board
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: Fabian Hurzeler upgrades the traditional football "basics", darts and chess offer their versions ...
4 Feb 202557min
Referees vs The Limelight, passages of terror & Matt 1 Hernia 0
Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: yet another new rival for the "corridor of uncertainty", the media taking Ruben Amorim sl...
30 Jan 202544min
"Football, bloody football", UK garage Postecoglou & the exact weight of a Premier League point
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by David Walker and Nick Miller. On the agenda: Walker's Ribblesdale Rovers side have a relegation battle on their hands, a subtle misremembering of tha...
28 Jan 202543min
