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title: "Tommy - Football Cliches"
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summary: "Football Clichés is a comedy podcast that deconstructs the unique language and phrases of football, featuring hosts Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare, and David Walker discussing various aspects of the sport. The show explores topics ranging from referee culture to commentator voices and punditry, with episodes featuring notable figures in football broadcasting."
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# Tommy - Football Cliches

Football Cliches Adam Hurrey & Goalhanger Follow 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 4.9 (1.8K) Comedy Football Sports All Episodes Unimaginative abuse, tactical whistling & circular red cards, with ex-referee Graham Scott Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker are joined by former Premier League referee Graham Scott, who answers some increasingly obscure questions from the pod and the listeners about life as a top-flight match official... Is RefCam a positive development in our relationship with referees? What's the threshold for a referee becoming "card happy"? When would an official call a player by their nickname? Why have anti-referee chants failed to evolve over the years? Why is Jay Bothroyd now the nation's unofficial chief referee assessor? Why do referees whistle for full time in different ways? And how long would it take for a flawlessly talented 40-year-old referee to go from Sunday League to Premier League? Play our fantastic new Out of Control daily quiz at games.footballcliches.com Sign up for Dreamland, the new members-only Football Clichés experience, to access our exclusive show and much more: https://dreamland.footballcliches.com Visit nordvpn.com/cliches to get four extra months on a two-year plan with NordVPN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Oct 1 1 hr 20 min Dreamland, Episode 32: Voices of Football - Peter Brackley, Gary Neville & Simon Jordan The man with the plumbest remotely-based commentary gig in football history, what school must have been like for Peter Brackley’s kids, Gary Neville's mid-match theses on the existential status of Manchester United football club and the 7.49-second howl that launched a co-commentary phenomenon. Plus: book reviews, bluster and a bullish broadcasting banker: the rise and rise of pundit-era Simon Jordan. Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and Nick Miller bring you the latest edition of Dreamland, with the fifth in a series of episodes on commentators, co-commentators and pundits. Paid Sep 29 54 min 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 charges, accidentally musical commentary from England vs Spain, a huge development for players who have their full names read out every time, Poland delivers the adverb that football never knew it always wanted, Andy Townsend on pub toilets, Dave unconsciously saying the names of Ballon d’Or winners, Jeremy Clarkson presenting Match of the Day, and Glenn Hoddle goes route-one in search of some international-break social media engagement. Play our fantastic new Out of Control daily quiz at games.footballcliches.com Sign up for Dreamland, the members-only Football Clichés experience, to access our exclusive show and much more: https://dreamland.footballcliches.com Download SAILY in your app store and use code CLICHES at checkout to get an exclusive 15% off your first purchase! For more info, visit https://saily.com/cliches Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Sep 28 55 min 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 irritations. Among the selections are the three minutes it takes to identify the co-commentator by voice alone, the body language of an offside striker performatively not interfering with play, why a player can be "on a hat-trick" but not "on a red card" and the sheer dissatisfaction of a new signing not being immediately unleashed for their debut. Play our fantastic new Out of Control daily quiz at games.footballcliches.com Sign up for Dreamland, the new members-only Football Clichés experience, to access our exclusive show and much more: https://dreamland.footballcliches.com Visit nordvpn.com/cliches to get four extra months on a two-year plan with NordVPN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Sep 23 51 min 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 MLS fixture from 2015, the most likely current Premier League manager to jokingly pretend to walk into the wrong dressing room, a satisfying Saturday evening for one Coventry fan, Jose Mourinho prints off his La Liga complaints, the logical framework of being “the happier of the two managers at half-time”, Irish wondergoal commentary, Martin Tyler celebrates his birthday by finally completing a very specific set, a Belgian version of Happy Hunting Grounds and a listener asks for our favourite overlappers. Play our fantastic new Out of Control daily quiz at games.footballcliches.com Sign up for Dreamland, the members-only Football Clichés experience, to access our exclusive show and much more: https://dreamland.footballcliches.com Download SAILY in your app store and use code CLICHES at checkout to get an exclusive 15% off your first purchase! For more info, visit https://saily.com/cliches Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Sep 21 50 min Dreamland, Episode 31: Will there ever be another Soccer AM? Three quarters of a million people in its thrall, 240 minutes to fill, the intense mid-2000s-university energy about the concept of “Save Chip”, the visceral need to watch both a Doncaster fan AND a sitcom journeyman kick a ball through a hole in a car park, Tim Lovejoy’s charm and intellect hitting their absolute limits live on air, the unrivalled status of Helen Chamberlain, Max Rushden’s alleged golden era, the inevitability of Serge from Kasabian, and the faintly tragic YouTube echoes of the content volcano that was Sky's Saturday-morning phenomenon. Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker bring you the latest episode of Dreamland, as they ponder Soccer AM's place in football's cultural landscape... and what happened to the "football entertainment" genre. Paid Sep 20 1 hr 6 min 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, managers of Premier League games that have their own Wikipedia pages, the Oceanian Champions League, guessing the co-commentator, football men dubbed into Welsh, Richard Keys’s World Cup rallying cries, guessing the Champions League final from the pre-match punditry, various nations' Premier League top scorers and, of course, Happy Hunting Grounds. Play our fantastic new Out of Control daily quiz at games.footballcliches.com Sign up for Dreamland, the members-only Football Clichés experience, to access our exclusive new show and much more: https://dreamland.footballcliches.com Visit nordvpn.com/cliches to get four extra months on a two-year plan with NordVPN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Sep 17 1 hr 27 min Offside contamination, yards of confidence & Drury's Down Under doppelganger LONDON LIVE QUIZ - TICKETS ON GENERAL SALE WEDNESDAY 16TH - ⁠quiz.footballcliches.com⁠ Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the fallout from the Manchester derby, Tottenham's goal drought passes an important threshold, referees commentating on goals, a very familiar-sounding voice from a game in Australia, whether Manchester United vs Sabah set an incredibly niche world record, overdue praise for the steadiest commentary duo in the business, sci-fi heritage in Scottish penalty shootouts and Andy Gray’s booming return to co-commentary. Play the Happy Hunting Grounds daily quiz at games.footballcliches.com Sign up for Dreamland, the members-only Football Clichés experience, to access our exclusive show and much more: https://dreamland.footballcliches.com Download SAILY in your app store and use code CLICHES at checkout to get an exclusive 15% off your first purchase! For more info, visit https://saily.com/cliches Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Sep 14 55 min 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 scenes in the Yashin Trophy nominations, a Talksport debate about the threshold for in-game dominance, John McGinn's trademark caressed curler, the growing usage of "late doors", an unacceptably casual word for a headed goal, the least "rounding the goalkeeper" striker in the Premier League, commentary to the accidental rhythm of football chants and Richard Keys's top 6 commentators of all time. Play the Happy Hunting Grounds daily quiz at games.footballcliches.com Sign up for Dreamland, the members-only Football Clichés experience, to access our exclusive show and much more: https://dreamland.footballcliches.com Visit nordvpn.com/cliches to get four extra months on a two-year plan with NordVPN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Sep 10 46 min Cliches Live in the sunshine, the Mike Dean content machine & ASMR in the EFL Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: reflections on a superb afternoon at the Cliches live show, Tom Cruise deploys the football plural, Gary Cotterill plumbs new press-conference depths, Manchester United are Arsenal 2008/09 in disguise, the fallout from Mike Dean's embellished anecdote, slightly-too-casual VAR announcements, the Gary Neville noise in a Kaiser Chiefs song, and much more. Play the Happy Hunting Grounds daily quiz at games.footballcliches.com Sign up for Dreamland, the members-only Football Clichés experience, to access our exclusive show and much more: https://dreamland.footballcliches.com Download SAILY in your app store and use code CLICHES at checkout to get an exclusive 15% off your first purchase! For more info, visit https://saily.com/cliches Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Sep 7 41 min The washed Sky Sports News, Horlicks FC & the Transfers That Feel So Right XI Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the agonising death of Sky Sports News on deadline day, whether a player can have a “knack” for scoring penalties, Darren Fletcher reviving his Copacbana obsession, footballers’ names in German pet food adverts, whether a header can be “blazed" over the bar, the threshold for a goal getting a trailing team "back in it", an apocalyptic-sounding night at the ex-footballers charity boxing, and checking in with the boys at Keys & Gray Unleashed. Meanwhile, the panel select the Summer 2026 Transfers That Just Feel So Right XI. Play the Happy Hunting Grounds daily quiz at games.footballcliches.com Sign up for Dreamland, the members-only Football Clichés experience, to access our exclusive show and much more: https://dreamland.footballcliches.com Visit nordvpn.com/cliches to get four extra months on a two-year plan with NordVPN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Sep 3 50 min Vomiting footballers & 30 years of the electronic sub board: 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 the selections are how technology will finally come for the clumsily-operated electronic substitution board, the futile abuse of the BBC's Player Rater tool, whether a team should be top or bottom of a negatively-themed league table, and a passionate defence of strikers who don't gamble on low crosses into the six-yard box. Play the new Happy Hunting Grounds daily quiz at games.footballcliches.com Sign up for Dreamland, the new members-only Football Clichés experience, to access our exclusive show and much more: https://dreamland.footballcliches.com Use the code CLICHES to get 60% off the annual plan at incogni.com/cliches Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Aug 31 41 min Load more episodes More podcasts like this Football Clichés: Dreamland Adam Hurrey & Goalhanger Football Weekly The Guardian The Upshot The Upshot Football Daily BBC Radio 5 Live It Was What It Was : The Football History Podcast The Overlap Libero Libero The Game The Times The Totally Football Show with James Richardson The Athletic The Price of Football Dap Dip Home Search Your Library Premium ,