Football Cliches

Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: an assortment of Champions League television highlights, a delightful nickname for a Scottish League Two striker, co-existing footballers whose names match one of Aesop’s fables, "Johnny on the spot" and other name-based footballing labels, unexpected Portuguese managers in Salvage Hunters episodes, a full-length acoustic version of the old Ford Super Sunday title music, and much more.

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Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the explosion in AI-generate fantasy versions of Mesut Ozil goals, work-permit concerns in Berkshire under-15s leagues, the Cliches pod popping up in Australian dashcam videos, a curious BBC preoccupation with Mikkel Damsgaard's hairline, how Brentford nearly caused the ultimate VAR nightmare, a deep dive into Diego Gomez’s 51-yarder, whether a headed goal can be "slammed in", Premier League centre-backs you’d trust in a one-on-one with a keeper, the "goals galore" threshold and a deft dissection of the Drurian mid-shot commentary emphasis.

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Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: Dave's evening of Watford misery, an unexpected cultural influence of Martin O’Neill’s late-90s Leicester squad, Jon Champion struggles with the Marvel universe, Coventry's bid for a rare Premier League double, why Thomas Frank to Fulham just sounds too perfect, towering Czech strikers in news stories about burst water pipes, and the latest legacy members of the Red Cartel to launch a football podcast.

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Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the holding pattern of awkwardness after Liverpool 0 Man City 3, Lee Dixon gives US viewers a refresher course about being "on toast", Jamie Redknapp deploys an unusual punditry ratio, TNT Sports unveil their new studio innovation, hrewdly-scripted mundane football chat on EastEnders, a war reporter with Fletch's voice, Harry Kane describes German bread in a way only a footballer could, an appeal for a footballing musical gem that perhaps never existed... and Richard Keys’s top five referees.

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An immaculate Etihad goalkeeping hierarchy, nearly picking Maicon by accident, an underwhelming Pep Guardiola raid of Bayern Munich, a capable midfield wardrobe, the one turn-of-the-2010s Englishman they didn’t sign, the Messi/Ronaldo dilemma, Hulk tearing up the Premier League from the right-hand side, an agonising choice for No 9, and one charming man to lead them all.

Adam Hurrey is joined by David Walker and James Maw to sift through dozens of names in a bid to pick apart Manchester City's various transfer strategies from 2008 to the present day - from the early post-takeover splurges to the relentless squad-refining of the Guardiola era - and select a lineup of players who somehow slipped through the Etihad net.

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