Football Cliches
चैनल विवरण
Football Cliches
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
हाल के एपिसोड
241 एपिसोड
Flats that overlook stadiums & the optimum time for Sky Sports News: The listeners' loves & hates
Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker entertain this month's listener entries for Mesut Haaland Dicks, as the Clichés faithful nominate the...
The "what's eating Erling Haaland?" threshold, FA Cup anthem fears & Gary Weaver's Circle of Goals
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare, David Walker and Nick Miller. On the agenda: a quickfire review of Arsenal 2 Ma...
Zohran Mamdani's PL Years & a chat with Éanna Hardwicke on playing Roy Keane in Saipan
Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: a familiar name pops up at the Australi...
The moment the AFCON final peaked, Wenger's Law & football gestures at bus stops
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by David Walker and Nick Miller. On the agenda: the unifying absurdity that was the Africa Cup of Nati...
Properly getting out, cricketing ASMR, and shadow umpire’s call
It’s the final outing of the winter for Cricket Cliches, the first branch line of the Cliches network, and there’s an end of term feeling as the full...
Shane Todd on post-save goalkeeper emotions & professional footballer-botherer Rio Ferdinand
Shane Todd on post-save goalkeeper emotions & professional footballer-botherer Rio Ferdinand
The pod welcomes comedian and presenter Shan...
Semenyo's 0.028% return, six nicknames in 15 seconds & Scotland's bottom dogs
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: a minor technicality with Cup-upset measuring,...
41-year-old blokes playing for prime Barca, Ken Barlow's terrace anthem, and the Sir Alex blessing
Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: Manchester United's legacy machine cran...
Resurgent corner flags, Eddie Howe's onslaught threshold & "the Pound Shop Potter”
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by David Walker and Nick Miller. On the agenda: a whistle-stop tour of the media reaction to Chelsea a...
Snake pits and minefields, the shadow follow-on, and catching on camera
The fifth outing for the Cricket Cliches crew but are they now set? And what does that mean, anyway?
The shadow batting debate intensifi...
That Man DCL, heading your granny & clowns in Slough bunkers
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the freescoring Dominic Calvert-Lewin passes a...
Domestic shadow-batting, no mugs, and spectator stress
While England self-immolate, Cricket Cliches maintains its admittedly modest run of form in our fourth outing. Aussie commentators Aaron Finch and Ada...
Absolute dreamland: The Best of Football Clichés in 2025
Every football pundit ever, condensed into one approximated voice; accidental nursery rhymes in Champions League commentary; last-gasp Cliches Quiz dr...
Glove-spitting goalkeepers & edge-of-the-D drama at five-a-side: The listeners' loves & hates
Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker entertain this month's listener entries for Mesut Haaland Dicks, as the Clichés faithful nominate the...
North-east river supremacy, David Moyes' giant duck & Keysey's nutmegs
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the media wrestles with what to call the derby...
Tricky little sessions, daddy hundreds, and getting hit "amidships"
The Ashes are basically done and dusted after England’s pink ball capitulation. Time for the third session of Cricket Cliches, but is it a tricky litt...
Unexpected Clive Tyldesley noises & Gabriel's hypothetical Arsenal own-goal hell
Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: England's March "send-off" to the World...
Uzbekistan vs Colombia at 3am, the Infantino Shrug & a dubious bagsman
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: a review of the World Cup draw ceremony, foreca...
I Wanna Dance With Peter Drury, grinding out a 5-4 & Haaland's League One future
Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: Richarlison’s claims to a niche world r...
Commentator's curse conspiracies, homegrown stewards & Lee Hendrie's "highgevity”
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: A commentator’s curse turns into a mini-saga wi...
Expected leaves, driving "on the up" & absolute Ebony Rainford-Brent
It’s the second test for the Cricket Cliches crew featuring our first change as cricket writer Charlie Reynolds steps in for Nick Miller.
...
The Football Cliches Quiz XXII: Cliches vs Career We Go — The Decider
The 22nd edition of the Football Clichés Quiz sees Adam, Charlie and Dave take on Bobby, Joe and Eamo from three-time quiz visitors the Career We Go p...
Arsenal's official title status, Idris Elba's prefix woe & the verb "to goal”
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: Charlie's Sunday Supplement debut, the soundtra...
Lashing/dabbing a seed/cherry, moral victories, and why do the Aussies hate Bazball?
This, is Cricket Cliches, the all-new, slightly strange cousin of your favourite football podcast hosted by commentator Daniel Norcross with cricket j...
The "Club X til I die" loophole & torn hamstrings at the Battle of Hastings: The listeners' loves & hates
Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker entertain this month's listener entries for Mesut Haaland Dicks, as the Clichés faithful nominate the...
Premature dark-horsing, false-nine nostalgia & introducing... Cricket Clichés
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare, David Walker and Nick Miller. On the agenda: Ireland's preliminary World Cup he...
On toast in his pocket, pulling up trees & The Number-and-a-Half XI
Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the coining of a superb phrase in Canad...
Accidentally patronising commentary, the Battle of the Big Dan B's & Keysey meets Piers
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: Clichés catchphrases in unexpected places, Stev...
Vittorio Angelone on orchestral anthems, Lev Yashin's cap, and badge-avoiding classy touches
We’d love your vote for Football Clichés as Podcast of the Year at the FSA Awards: https://vote.footballcliches.com/
The pod welcomes c...
”Cool as custard”, Reo-Coker's hanky-panky & football's reigning Great Entertainers
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by David Walker and Nick Miller. On the agenda: the story behind an FA Cup penalty shootout commentary...
FA Cup engraving, football rhyming slang & overrated wondergoals, with Rob Morgan
The pod welcomes comedy creator Rob Morgan for the latest edition of Mesut Haaland Dicks, as he chooses his six personal fascinations and irritations...
Five football clubs in 10 seconds, Ekitike's non-haunting & prime minister Martin Keown
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by David Walker and Nick Miller. On the agenda: some very niche feedback on Peter Drury's commentary,...
Scottish League Two scores, leaked fines lists & the sixth penalty taker: The listeners' loves & hates
Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker entertain this month's listener entries for Mesut Haaland Dicks, as the Clichés faithful nominate the...
Live show legends, Liverpool's 18ft 10in strike force & a new Neville noise
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: Gary Neville finds a new frequency of noise at...
The Cape Verdean Dan Burn, Keysey the actor & the Communication XI
Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and Nick Miller. On the agenda: Nick's first-hand account of Cape Verde'...
Own-goal flavours, casual retirements & football clubs as sperm counts
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: Lee Dixon invents some new "goalkeeper's not sa...
England's 25th-choice right-back & the definitive Movement XI
Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: early feedback from the Clichés Live to...
Blown-open title races, punditspeak on the terraces & Woltemade's weird penalty
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: whether the Premier League title race can be "b...
xG's latest victim, Jamie O'Hara vs the RAF & football's goldfish bowls
Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the definitive ruling on which David Br...
The last corner flag, acres of experience & Christianity's classy touches
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the Clichés pod continues to influence UK broad...