189 Episodes

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 12/24/2024
  7. Cliches do Mesut Haaland Dicks: Adam, Charlie & Dave’s footballing loves & hates

    Published: 12/19/2024
  8. The blip-to-crisis benchmark, Comedy Central defending & Australian red card music

    Published: 12/17/2024
  9. Commentators sampled in experimental French pop & the ultimate generic multi-club ownership group

    Published: 12/12/2024
  10. Unexpected Sutton, diags on MOTD & the “good time to play them” threshold

    Published: 12/10/2024
  11. The best 9.3% of the FA Cup draw, the "stand named after you" threshold & Richard Keys on cars

    Published: 12/5/2024
  12. An educated left head, the first goal ever uploaded to YouTube & the "big-money signing" formula

    Published: 12/3/2024
  13. Sunday League set-piece routines, the "olé" threshold & mistimed minute's applauses: The listeners' loves & hates

    Published: 11/28/2024
  14. 5.54 seconds of away-goal confusion, footballers in US T-junctions and the official Keys & Gray app

    Published: 11/26/2024
  15. The Bosman legacy, optimum camera angles & double saves, with Luke Moore

    Published: 11/21/2024
  16. 59 consecutive hat-tricks, yo-yo countries and the first-ever usage of "tippy-tappy football”

    Published: 11/19/2024
  17. Deodorant ads, Don(ald) Goodman & "The Deeney Guy": Cliches meets Sky Sports commentator Bill Leslie

    Published: 11/14/2024
  18. xG meets crime dramas & the Sunday League to Premier League hat-trick pathway

    Published: 11/12/2024
  19. The Vitality Stadium swing state, Noel Gallagher's co-comms & the "big five" of cheese

    Published: 11/7/2024
  20. ”Still 0-0, lads!", a man named Hattrick & the mid-2010s throw-in scandal

    Published: 11/5/2024

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