Football Cliches
Adam Hurrey & Goalhanger
Deconstructing the gloriously unique language of football – the words, the phrases and the tiny things you didn't think you cared about – with Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare & David Walker.Visit nordvpn.com/cliches to get four extra months on a two-year plan with NordVPN
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Episodes (589)
The 9.75 role, Tom Hiddleston's Champions League mindset & the Faroese Andy Gray
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The fixture pile-up threshold, Sean Dyche playing "Sean Dyche" & under-10s troph...
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Team-talk mythology & the stickers of European toilet cubicles: The listeners' l...
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Great adverts for the pyramid, technicians of the sphere & Qatar to Coventry in...
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Elite barbers' FPL advantage, the Collins-Tomkins dilemma & doing The Terrestria...
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Lee Dixon on toast, “advantage City” & a commentator's Copacabana complex
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Unexpected Stevenage, premature hauntings & the Premier League goal caught on CC...
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Half-and-half Shakespearean scarves, scouting for Shevchenko & the half-dozen cr...
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The Football Cliches Quiz XXIII: Cliches vs Career We Go
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FA Cup lustre status, Ally McCoist's cliche mashup... and every Premier League g...
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The Extinction XI
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Biggleswade bragging rights, Tanzania 0 Liechtenstein 1 & Keysey's perfect Chris...
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Football vs The Dictionary: Susie Dent on bus-parking & bouncebackability
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The Carabao Supremacy, yodelling commentators & the absolute Joe Hart
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GoPro goalkeepers & textbook crossfield-pass apologies: The listeners' loves & h...
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”My baby looks like Gary Megson", MOTD donking & in dreamland with Bodo/Glimt
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BBC live-text sad lads & watching football in the boozer, with Jimmy "Dead Pubs"...
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FA Cup scares/dumpings/cruises, dark orange cards & Roman gladiator VAR
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The freefall threshold, Benjamin Sesko's windows & the streets forgetting Santia...
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Co-commentary cues, flopping full-backs & the "one of our own" threshold, with L...
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The 5-a-side keepers' union & World Cup pub bunting: The listeners' loves & hate...
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Literally ghosting, Larry David's Champions League commentary & Sir Alex's 2011/...
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Hoddle's Curse strikes again, the world-record fans' favourite & a saucy U-turn
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The Forest-Watford Vortex, champagne players & Pep vs Daffy Duck
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Generic Spurs punditry, regurgitating possession & ding-dong stalemates: The 500...
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Introverted full-backs, radio commentary synchronicity & the Champions League of...
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”Absolute wimp", Arsenal's pre-ignited quadruple & a Doha denouement
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Scorpion scepticism, 80% ball knowledge & Conor Coady's Football Clubs (2026 edi...
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Flats that overlook stadiums & the optimum time for Sky Sports News: The listene...
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The "what's eating Erling Haaland?" threshold, FA Cup anthem fears & Gary Weave...
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Zohran Mamdani's PL Years & a chat with Éanna Hardwicke on playing Roy Keane in...
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The moment the AFCON final peaked, Wenger's Law & football gestures at bus stops
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Properly getting out, cricketing ASMR, and shadow umpire’s call
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Shane Todd on post-save goalkeeper emotions & professional footballer-botherer R...
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Semenyo's 0.028% return, six nicknames in 15 seconds & Scotland's bottom dogs
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41-year-old blokes playing for prime Barca, Ken Barlow's terrace anthem, and the...
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Resurgent corner flags, Eddie Howe's onslaught threshold & "the Pound Shop Potte...
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Snake pits and minefields, the shadow follow-on, and catching on camera
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That Man DCL, heading your granny & clowns in Slough bunkers
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Domestic shadow-batting, no mugs, and spectator stress
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Absolute dreamland: The Best of Football Clichés in 2025
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Glove-spitting goalkeepers & edge-of-the-D drama at five-a-side: The listeners'...
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North-east river supremacy, David Moyes' giant duck & Keysey's nutmegs
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Tricky little sessions, daddy hundreds, and getting hit "amidships"
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Unexpected Clive Tyldesley noises & Gabriel's hypothetical Arsenal own-goal hell
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Uzbekistan vs Colombia at 3am, the Infantino Shrug & a dubious bagsman
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I Wanna Dance With Peter Drury, grinding out a 5-4 & Haaland's League One future
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Commentator's curse conspiracies, homegrown stewards & Lee Hendrie's "highgevity...
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Expected leaves, driving "on the up" & absolute Ebony Rainford-Brent
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The Football Cliches Quiz XXII: Cliches vs Career We Go — The Decider
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