183 Episodes

  1. The Pure Discourse XI

    Published: 3/6/2025
  2. How to time a red card, penalty run-ups & commentator Robyn Cowen voice-controls a stadium

    Published: 3/4/2025
  3. The Football Cliches Quiz XVIII: It Was What It Was

    Published: 2/27/2025
  4. Champions-elect, relegated Rishi Sunak & Premier League managers with Athletic subscriptions

    Published: 2/25/2025
  5. How to celebrate an own goal & ball-boy etiquette: The listeners' loves & hates

    Published: 2/20/2025
  6. Chuckling stadiums, Things-in-Chief and, finally, some actual whispering of it quietly

    Published: 2/18/2025
  7. Crosses from the 1990s, baseball scores & the death of the managerial "war cry”

    Published: 2/13/2025
  8. Nursery rhymes with Fletch, Clark Kent goalkeeping & under-12s away-day cauldrons

    Published: 2/11/2025
  9. The Football Cliches Quiz XVII: The Commentators

    Published: 2/6/2025
  10. The "17th chess piece", the death of the onion bag & coded messages to the board

    Published: 2/4/2025
  11. Referees vs The Limelight, passages of terror & Matt 1 Hernia 0

    Published: 1/30/2025
  12. "Football, bloody football", UK garage Postecoglou & the exact weight of a Premier League point

    Published: 1/28/2025
  13. Cometh the quinquennium, cometh the pod

    Published: 1/23/2025
  14. Has the Premier League hit peak “What a job [Manager X] is doing up/down there?”

    Published: 1/20/2025
  15. Portrait-aspect football & England managers in the stands: The listeners' loves & hates (feat. Chloe Petts)

    Published: 1/16/2025
  16. WW2 with Ray Parlour, Tamworth's global appeal & the 1863 Ballon d'Or winner

    Published: 1/14/2025
  17. Trip-hop Liam Delap, the terminal velocity of a lob & the goal gifting crisis

    Published: 1/9/2025
  18. The first embers of a game, heavy-metal Jonathan Pearce & the Andy Gray of lacrosse

    Published: 1/7/2025
  19. ”Listen, fair play": The Best of Football Clichés in 2024

    Published: 12/30/2024
  20. The Football Cliches Quiz XVI: Career We Go - The Rematch

    Published: 12/24/2024

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