🔥🔥NEW VFTL🔥🔥 NORTH. LONDON. DERBY. Full crew - me, @jackpittbrooke.bsky.social @dankp.bsky.social @cdeccleshare.bsky.social - for the big on. ⚽️ Can Spurs close that gap? 🪟 Transfer window - striker incoming? ⁉️ Some Qs answered. 1️⃣1️⃣ NLD; who starts? Can Spurs mess the game up? "ENJOY" pod.fo/e/356545

New @vftlpodcast.bsky.social NLD preview, your questions answered @dannykellywords.bsky.social @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @dankp.bsky.social and me pod.fo/e/356545

🚨THURSDAY POD!🚨 @acjimbo.bsky.social, @cdeccleshare.bsky.social, @oilysailor.bsky.social & @benjilanyado.bsky.social assemble for... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Magic at Hampden Park w/ Laura Brannan 🏆 World Cup qualification round up 🔙 Premier League MD12 🤔 An intriguing NLD 🧮 Uncle Jeff's Coefficient pod.fo/e/356920

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒕 𝑯𝒂𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒔: The Listeners Your football fascinations & irritations, inc: The tiny but fundamental loophole in "Club X til I die", refs booking injured players...and hamstrings at the Battle of Hastings @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓 🔊 cricket.footballcliches.com 🔊 Norway’s “grey horses” 🔊 Dion Dublin clarifies the “Diadora pass” 🔊 Unexpected false-nine nostalgia 🔊 The Sheffield Wednesday administrators' in-tray @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social @nickmiller79.bsky.social

Big blow for Alcaraz, Spain and the Davis Cup ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...

Chris Eubanks - great guy, incredible tennis brain and at Wimbledon 2023 was briefly the most compelling story in the sport. Plenty to come from him in retirement, no doubt ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...

It feels fitting that in a year that has been about two players not one, it's Sinner who gets the victory to leave things as close to all square as possible between him and Alcaraz. As ever when they play, the loser is the increasingly forlorn chasing pack www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...

Alcaraz Sinner again on Sunday - the world No. 1 against comfortably the world's best indoor player. Though Alcaraz is playing better indoors than ever before. With numbers from @tennisviz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...

The men's tennis season has been so dominated by Sinner and Alcaraz that feel-good stories have been hard to find. Even/especially in Turin where pretty much everyone else has looked mentally and/or physically fried. So TF for FAA ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...

The men's tennis season has been so dominated by Sinner and Alcaraz that feel-good stories have been hard to find. Even/especially in Turin where pretty much everyone else has looked mentally and/or physically fried. So TF for FAA ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...

Carlos Alcaraz will be the year-end No. 1 for the second time in his career. Younger to do that at 22 than any of the Big Three www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 An early contender for semi-accidental footballing portmanteau of the season 🔊 How to (not) "pull up trees" 🔊 The definitive Number & A Half XI 🔊 Keys & Gray on... AI 🔊 vote.footballcliches.com 🔊 AND MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

Possibly the best match Fritz has ever played. And yet, against Alcaraz, it still wasn't enough www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 vote.footballcliches.com 🔊 Head-loss 🆚 Head's gone 🔊 Steve McManaman's Accidentally Patronising Co-Commentary 🔊 Famous footballing brothers in mermaid drama credits 🔊 Piers 🤝 Keysey 🔊 MUCH MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

The ATP Finals used to be a sanctuary for the sandwich generation, with Zverev (twice), Medvedev and Tsitsipas all former winners. Now, apart from Zverev, they can't even qualify. And Zverev has it all to do to make an impact in Turin www.nytimes.com/athletic/677...

Saudi Tennis Federation had three-year opt-out clause with Next Gen Finals and have decided to exercise it, thus ending agreement to host through 2027 (as @reemabulleil.bsky.social reported earlier). ATP now starts bidding process to host the event from 2026 ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/678...

🚨 THURSDAY POD!🚨 @acjimbo.bsky.social, @cdeccleshare.bsky.social, @markcarey93.bsky.social & @oilysailor.bsky.social round up Wednesday's UCL action AND look ahead to MD11 in the EPL 👊 🤔 City or Liverpool on Sunday? 🐈‍⬛ Will Sunderland stop Arsenal? ⚪️ Can Spurs beat United at home?! pod.fo/e/34c9a0

Exclusive: ATP signs content partnership with Spotify, as it continues its pursuit of Gen Z/Millennial fans. Follows similar deals with TikTok and Overtime earlier this year. Will include exclusive ATP Finals documentary www.nytimes.com/athletic/678...

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST Our 𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒕 𝑯𝒂𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒔 guest is Berbatov nutmegger, goalkeeper-cap lamenter, front-flip throw-in historian, Premier League career advisor, studio-demanding diva, classical musicman and comedian... 𝐕𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐨 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞 pod.fo/e/34c32b

Some further details in here on how the 'Battle of the Sexes' is going to work - including no second serves and the dimensions Kyrgios will be hitting into to be nine per cent smaller ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/677...

🚨 THURSDAY POD!🚨 @acjimbo.bsky.social, @cdeccleshare.bsky.social, @tomwfootball.bsky.social & @jaydmharris.bsky.social with you for a whole lot of Carabao & PL fun... 🤨 Slot's selection gamble ❌ Arsenal's stingy defence 🤪 Tottenham v Chelsea = pure chaos 🗺️ Mind-boggling map chat pod.fo/e/347641

Saudi Arabia and tennis become ever more intertwined with new 1,000 men’s event (the rung below the slams) And, as is precisely the point with normalising this sort of thing, the human rights concerns around the nation seem to now make barely a ripple ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/651...

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒕 𝑯𝒂𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒔: The Listeners Your football fascinations & irritations, ft: Scottish League Two scores, goal kick/penalty gesture chaos & one of the most nuanced observations on the language of football... @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

If, as expected but not yet confirmed, the Saudi 1,000 takes place in Feb, one of the most affected areas will be South America. Spoke to one of the region's most successful players Diego Schwartzman, who fears for the future of South American tennis ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/650...

Significant moment in tennis, as Saudi Arabia gets the big men's tournament it's craved ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/651...

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Gary Neville finds a new frequency at Anfield 🔊 Is Marinakis too Chaos Serie A for Our League? 🔊 The earliest you can "not want this first half to end" 🔊 Keysey’s £400m Stars of the Sixties @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social pod.fo/e/3418d0

Think the Forest situation reflects worse on Marinakis than Postecoglou. Any appointment where you think five PL games is enough to make a judgement is hugely misguided.

Emma Raducanu has ended her tennis season, pulling out of WTA tournaments in Tokyo and Hong Kong over the next couple of weeks because of illness. Story from @cdeccleshare.bsky.social ⤵️

Emma Raducanu has been feeling unwell and decided to end her season, pulling out of her last two events in Tokyo + HK. Focus turns to next year, when she’ll be continuing with coach Francisco Roig (initial arrangement was up until the end of 2025) www.nytimes.com/athletic/672...

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Lee Dixon's got some new "goalkeeper's not saving that" hyperbole 🔊 Comedy own goals 🆚 Bizarre own goals 🔊 Mid-2010s Premier League clubs as sperm counts 🔊 Footballers who forget to retire 🔊 MUCH MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Tuchel’s single biggest World Cup selection headache 🔊 Ex-Prem managers in University Challenge answers 🔊 Lampardian 94-year-old grandfathers 🔊 Backpedalling, waltzing & darting: the definitive 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐗𝐈 @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

Jack Draper, the British world No. 8, has appointed Andy Murray’s former coach Jamie Delgado as his lead coach. Delgado split with Grigor Dimitrov in September, having worked with the Bulgarian for three years, during which time Dimitrov returned to the world’s top 10. ✍️ @cdeccleshare.bsky.social

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Blow-openable title races 🔊 Punditspeak in the stands at Old Trafford? 🔊 Experimental football chat on @TheRestHistory 🔊 Fact-checking Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink’s Strictlyspeak 🔊 Keys & Gray on green cards @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

Why Federer's court speed commentary about Alcaraz and Sinner is sort-of-right and sort-of-wrong, and the problem with a metric which is both objectively measured by tournaments, and experienced subjectively by players With @cdeccleshare.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/668...

The thorny issue of court speeds, and why some of Federer's, and certainly Zverev's, comments missed the mark. Part of this week's briefing, with @jameskhansen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/668...

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 The Champion/Brent noise ruling 🔊 Martin O’Neill (xG) 🆚 Jamie O’Hara (RAF pilots) 🔊 Somehow making it through all 14 secs of Europe’s Ryder Cup team chanting at Trump 🔊 Football’s archetypal "goldfish bowl" @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

After a diagnosis of spondyloarthritis 5 years ago, Eva Lys has to manage her body carefully. Which is one of the hardest things to do as an athlete. She explains her ‘less is more’ approach, and why she won’t stay quiet on issues like inequality ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/667...

🚨WEDNESDAY POD!🚨 @acjimbo.bsky.social, @zonal-marking.bsky.social, @oilysailor.bsky.social & @cdeccleshare.bsky.social Champions League chat: 🤨Liverpool looking vulnerable 📸The Mourinho sideshow 🇳🇴Spurs survive in Bodo w/ @jaydmharris.bsky.social 🛣️How did Paul Jewell get to Derby? pod.fo/e/334da8

French legend Gaël Monfils will retire from tennis at the end of the 2026 season, he announced in a statement on Wednesday. Monfils has 13 ATP Tour titles to date, reached a career-high ranking of world No. 6, and made two Grand Slam semifinals. ✍️ James Hansen and @cdeccleshare.bsky.social

There can't be many players who've left such a mark on tennis without winning one of the sport's biggest titles. Some thoughts on Gael Monfils in this ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/667...

ICYMI yesterday: Exclusive - ATP won't fine Medvedev after admitting to umpire error in 'best effort' warning. Medvedev was suffering from cramp at the time www.nytimes.com/athletic/667...

🔥🔥NEW VFTL🔥🔥 A NIGHT TO REMEMBER! ⚽️ VFTL LIVE! A LOVELY NIGHT AMONG OUR PEOPLE. 🎙 Spurs midfield - swings and roundabouts. 🎯 Champions League - format wars! 🔥 EVEN more about Levy's "departure"/murder. Me @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @jamestmaw.bsky.social pod.fo/e/3341e4

Carlos Alcaraz tightened his grip on the world No. 1 spot by beating a physically compromised Taylor Fritz 6-4, 6-4 to win the Japan Open Tuesday in Tokyo. More from @cdeccleshare.bsky.social ⬇️ 🔗 theathletic.com/6675895/?sou...

New @vftlpodcast.bsky.social Live show chat, Daniel Levy, Joao Palhinha dilemma, Bodo/Glimt preview @dannykellywords.bsky.social @cdeccleshare.bsky.social and me pod.fo/e/3341e4

ATP admit to mistake in umpire giving Daniil Medvedev a 'best effort' warning as he battled cramp in defeat to Learner Tien www.nytimes.com/athletic/667...

Carlos Alcaraz’s ceiling has been the highest on the ATP Tour for some time; now he is raising his floor, too. How did the world number one hit something close to his peak at the Japan Open? 📝 @cdeccleshare.bsky.social 🔗 theathletic.com/6670207/?sou...

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Fletch on the beach 🔊 The last sacked PL manager to get a corner_flag.jpg 🔊 Classy touches from rival Christian denominations 🔊 Antiques Roadshow loses its football credibility 🔊 Andy Gray 🆚 xG (again) @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

🚨SATURDAY POD!🚨 This week @acjimbo.bsky.social, @oilysailor.bsky.social, @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & Stuart James look back on Derby's 11-point haul in 2007/08. How did it happen? And is there another team who are actually worse? pod.fo/e/332684

An absolute pleasure chatting to @cdeccleshare.bsky.social about the fact that as soon as he stopped covering Spurs we won something. We also talked Frank, Tottenham clichés and tennis vs football. Listen here 👇 pod.fo/e/331763