Football Cliches

Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: an unexpected and semi-comprehensive review of Football League dressing-room mirrors, the inescapable logic of Scott Parker to West Ham, Andy Burnham becomes the new head coach of the United Kingdom, Steven Gerrard full-names a stadium for no reason, 3 minutes and 46 seconds of David Seaman in his absolute element, football punditry vs advanced trigonometry, the most insignificant Premier League season of each decade, the death of the laid-off free kick, and a listener's lovely little footballing ASMR project.

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Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: extreme Sunday League equipment woes, Gary Neville accidentally promoting his podcast mid-commentary, the lessons from Aston Villa vs Jamie Carragher, Ally McCoist's fingertips anticipation, the subtlest Halloween football wordplay ever uttered, whether a 5ft 8in player can perform a "towering header", Huddersfield fans with a potential world record, and much more.

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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 the selections are lower-league players getting fresh trims for TV games, a brief meta-analysis of the neverending debate over what constitutes “world class”, and a unanimous panning of lower-case shirt names.

Meanwhile, the panel undertake a cultural review of the Ballon d'Or ceremony and Arsenal's Carabao Cup shock at Fleetwood Town.

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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 League history, a big week for the footballing concept of "dreamland", Manchester United’s latest lurch into crisis (feat. mirrors, monarchs and monologues), a (probable) record 8.7-second Match of the Day intro, Simon Jordan takes on PETA over Crystal Palace's eagle, Scott McTominay gets an undeserved and accidental commentary telling-off, Jonathan Wilson helps to demolish some 1950s-themed TV footy chat, Brazilian full-backs’ names in VAR reviews, and picking the best all-time Premier League 5-a-side team with the same surname.

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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 Scottish League Two striker, co-existing footballers whose names match one of Aesop’s fables, "Johnny on the spot" and other name-based footballing labels, unexpected Portuguese managers in Salvage Hunters episodes, a full-length acoustic version of the old Ford Super Sunday title music, and much more.

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