Football Cliches
Adam Hurrey & Goalhanger
EN589 episodes
sports
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
Episodes (589)
Arsenal's official title status, Idris Elba's prefix woe & the verb "to goal”
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Nov 25, 202553:14pending
Lashing/dabbing a seed/cherry, moral victories, and why do the Aussies hate Bazb...
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Nov 20, 20251:01:10pending
The "Club X til I die" loophole & torn hamstrings at the Battle of Hastings: The...
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Nov 20, 202556:12pending
Premature dark-horsing, false-nine nostalgia & introducing... Cricket Clichés
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Nov 18, 202552:41pending
On toast in his pocket, pulling up trees & The Number-and-a-Half XI
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Nov 13, 202552:18pending
Accidentally patronising commentary, the Battle of the Big Dan B's & Keysey meet...
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Nov 11, 202548:05pending
Vittorio Angelone on orchestral anthems, Lev Yashin's cap, and badge-avoiding cl...
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Nov 6, 20251:21:11pending
”Cool as custard”, Reo-Coker's hanky-panky & football's reigning Great Entertain...
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Nov 4, 202553:55pending
Rob Morgan on FA Cup engraving, football rhyming slang & overrated wondergoals
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Oct 30, 20251:07:31pending
Five football clubs in 10 seconds, Ekitike's non-haunting & prime minister Marti...
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Oct 28, 202552:45pending
Scottish League Two scores, leaked fines lists & the sixth penalty taker: The li...
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Oct 23, 202550:03pending
Live show legends, Liverpool's 18ft 10in strike force & a new Neville noise
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Oct 21, 202541:04pending
The Cape Verdean Dan Burn, Keysey the actor & the Communication XI
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Oct 15, 202555:36pending
Own-goal flavours, casual retirements & football clubs as sperm counts
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Oct 13, 202540:53pending
England's 25th-choice right-back & the definitive Movement XI
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Oct 9, 202539:26pending
Blown-open title races, punditspeak on the terraces & Woltemade's weird penalty
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Oct 7, 202545:39pending
xG's latest victim, Jamie O'Hara vs the RAF & football's goldfish bowls
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Oct 1, 202538:44pending
The last corner flag, acres of experience & Christianity's classy touches
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Sep 29, 202543:57pending
Playing for your dad's team & mercifully short injury time: The listeners' loves...
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Sep 24, 202559:54pending
5.88 EFL seconds, Andy Townsend in song intros & the "sick of the sight of him"...
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Sep 22, 202553:29pending
The Jose Mourinho box office & a one-man war on factually incorrect football ane...
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Sep 17, 202543:13pending
Mowbray vs Brotherton, goalkeepers worth 12 points & Keith Andrews in the buildi...
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Sep 15, 202540:13pending
Serbian statements, Ange's unfinished business & Cape Verde: the World Cup Black...
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Sep 10, 202553:26pending
The MOTD intro scandal, Taxman FC & the most "cat amongst the pigeons" goal ever
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Sep 9, 202550:45pending
The Football Cliches Quiz XXI: Libero
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Sep 4, 20251:43:16pending
Slot's embarrassment of riches, hyperliteral stadium noises & Zidane vs Dyche
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Sep 1, 202553:52pending
Panenka-triggered goalkeepers & empty-net warm-up anxieties: The listeners' love...
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Aug 28, 202556:05pending
Dyche goes dating, Dean Ashton's defensive doughnut & textbook piledrivers
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Aug 26, 202548:53pending
Champion flatulence, football punditry sat navs & Sean Dyche X Big Sam
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Aug 20, 202543:32pending
Vertical highlights, Farage's footballspeak & Stockley Park's canteen crisis
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Aug 18, 202552:45pending
8.55 seconds in Wrexham, Celeste's Sky Sports flame is out & niche 2025-26 predi...
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Aug 13, 202548:44pending
Curtain-raising issues, Wycombe's new goal verb & things you cannot be "amid”
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Aug 11, 202547:36pending
Conor Coady's football club, alphabetical top flights & the world's most generic...
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Aug 7, 202543:42pending
Eastenders' Euro 2025 joy, #AccidentalCantona & "the most 2011 transfer of all t...
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Aug 4, 202550:02pending
The Football Cliches Quiz XX: The View From The Lane
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Jul 30, 20251:10:09pending
Goalkeepers' headers & elasticos on the deck of the Titanic: The listeners' love...
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Jul 28, 202540:55pending
The Agyemang Cacophony, the storm-weathering threshold & how clubs “get their ma...
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Jul 24, 202550:10pending
Talispersons, textbook Turkish Super Lig & time limits for the commentator's cur...
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Jul 21, 202540:21pending
The threshold for being "rudderless" & Tour de France riders as footballers
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Jul 16, 202544:31pending
Pre-season trophies, Iran in the Championship... and what happened to shin splin...
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Jul 14, 202542:41pending
Overage youth team mentors & the quickest repaying of a transfer fee ever
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Jul 9, 202542:18pending
Giving 40,000%, Test Match Andy Townsend & "Can you explore a swoop?”
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Jul 7, 202540:21pending
Wimbledon tennis players as footballers & the floodgates threshold
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Jul 2, 202550:40pending
Stopping Celeste's flame, pre-season lingo & Jhon Duran's reverse-gear career
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Jun 30, 202543:56pending
5-a-side injury updates & watching TV football from an acute angle: The listener...
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Jun 25, 20251:03:57pending
”The most involved-goals man", Swiss Army knives & watching the Roy Keane film t...
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Jun 23, 202557:20pending
The Pure Bundesliga XI
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Jun 18, 20251:10:23pending
Count Infantula's Club World Cup, referee kit launches & goal sandwiches
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Jun 16, 202550:46pending
Heavy England shirts, absolute clinics & Club World Cup curiosity levels
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Jun 11, 202552:52pending
Dixon is the new Lawro, Ange's logical next move & "where the dust mites dwell”
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Jun 9, 202542:50pending
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