THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Statistical proof that the World Cup has burst into life 🔊 Just what noise DID Javier Aguirre make to Anthony Gordon? 🔊 The Penalty Miss XI 🔊 Sammarinese stereotypes 🔊 AND MUCH MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social pod.fo/e/4463d9

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social on Thursday... Let's have your questions, observations, football-linguistic dislocation, footballers' names in things & anything else at all for the World Cup Adjudication Panel. Cheers!

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 A cultural review of Mexico 2 England 3, feat. David Bentley & 1,114 Dan Burns 🔊 Retro tinpot World Cup controversies 🔊 Unsatisfying Microsoft Windows noises during France v Paraguay 🔊 Fashioning 🆚 Conjuring 🔊 AND MUCH MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social Jake Farrell

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & Jake Farrell on Monday morning... Let's have your questions, observations, football-linguistic hallucinations, footballers' names in things & anything else – from the Azteca or beyond – for the World Cup Adjudication Panel Cheers!

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 England 2-1 DRC 1 & the Kaniest finish in the history of Harry Kane 🔊 Danny Murphy's cat 🔊 The most obscure way anyone has ever found out the result of a game they were trying to avoid 🔊 Heskey on broccoli @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social @jamestmaw.bsky.social

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social & @jamestmaw.bsky.social later on... Let's have your questions, observations, football-linguistic toxification, footballers' names in things & anything else at all for the World Cup Adjudication Panel. Cheers!

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 The CORRECT year for each World Cup last-32 tie 🔊 Pathetic TV-channel paranoia clickbait 🔊 Trumpian co-comms 🔊 Ex-Leicester midfielders’ names in racing game soundtracks 🔊 AND MORE @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social @jamestmaw.bsky.social @nickmiller79.bsky.social

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @nickmiller79.bsky.social & @jamestmaw.bsky.social on Monday... Let's have your questions, observations, football-linguistic disqualifications, footballers' names in things & anything else at all for the World Cup Adjudication Panel. Cheers!

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Uri Geller vs the witch doctor 🔊 Fletch in full Fox Sports mode 🔊 How long does a goalscorer have to wait before they're entitled to “dine out” on it? 🔊 Sacked managers' names in Olivia Rodrigo album tracks @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social on Thursday morning... Let's have your questions, observations, football-linguistic disintegration, footballers' names in things & anything else at all for the World Cup Adjudication Panel. Cheers!

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Gary Lineker's wry TV on ITV 🔊 Accidental 90s trance in referees' VAR announcements 🔊 Sam Matterface & the geographical “from X to Y” threshold 🔊 A "shopping list of saves" 🔊 A Statistical Breakdown of World Cup Lineup Poses 🔊 AND SO MUCH MORE

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & Screen Rot ace Jake Farrell on Monday... Let's have your questions, observations, football-linguistic cancellations, footballers' names in things & anything else at all for the World Cup Adjudication Panel. Cheers!

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Slapstick England-Croatia pub woe 🔊 Cape Verde trigger THAT World Cup social-media threshold 🔊 Which of the 48 nations least suits being full-named? 🔊 Why the US are 90 minutes away from soccer supremacy @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social later on... Let's have your questions, observations, football-linguistic capitulations, footballers' names in things & anything else at all for the World Cup Adjudication Panel. Cheers!

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social later on... Let's have your questions, observations, football-linguistic capitulations, footballers' names in things & anything else at all for the World Cup Adjudication Panel. Cheers!

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 BBC 🆚 ITV 🔊 The "impressive World Cup player who turns out to be 29, underwhelmingly" award 🔊 World Cup whinging: in review 🔊 What would a club "laughing off" a bid sound like?

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & @jamestmaw.bsky.social on Monday... Let's have your questions, observations, football-linguistic radicalisation, footballers' names in things & anything else at all for the World Cup Adjudication Panel. Cheers!

Episode 26 of 𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃 is out now! 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐮𝐩 - 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐓𝐰𝐨 A Semi-Definitive List of Things Every World Cup Ensemble-Cast Advert Must Include, the threshold for tweeting “imagine not liking football!”, the very specific commentary device we might not hear in 2026 and much more Sign up here ⬇️⬇️⬇️

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐌𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐭 𝐇𝐚𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 - 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐮𝐩 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 🏆 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 & 𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐢𝐧𝐜: Viral World Cup fans, giant FIFA lanyards & the slow death of the phrase “World Cup finals” @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @nickmiller79.bsky.social

We're recording the Listeners' WORLD CUP Mesut Haaland Dicks on Wednesday... 🏆 DM/email me ([email protected]) a message/voicenote about your ultimate World Cup fascination or irritation — a perennial one, a specific one, a one-off, a figment of your imagination from 20 years ago, whatever

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 England's Incorrect Florida Scoreboard XI: fully imagined 🔊 The UK's co-commentators get warmed up 🔊 Footballer’s names in scathing reviews of musicals 🔊 Mangled hurling cliches 🔊 AND MUCH MORE @nickmiller79.bsky.social @jamestmaw.bsky.social

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @nickmiller79.bsky.social & @jamestmaw.bsky.social on Monday.... Let's have your questions, observations, football-linguistic disqualifications, footballers' names in things & anything else at all for a pre-World Cup Adjudication Panel. Cheers!

Episode 25 of 𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃 is out now! 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐮𝐩 - 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐎𝐧𝐞 Why the Olympics cannot compete, which edition we’d delete if we absolutely had to, splitting its glorious history into definitive eras, the magical mid-point of World Cup chronology & the 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐮𝐩 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐗𝐈... Sign up here ⬇️⬇️⬇️

𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝟐𝟓: out tomorrow. dreamland.footballcliches.com

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐙 𝐗𝐗𝐕 Football Clichés 🆚 The England Pod 🏆 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐮𝐩 𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐳 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 🏆 ❓ Wikipedia-certified "Battles Of", hat-trick merchants, official match balls, UK-based 2006 Trinidadians, sequences ahoy, ex-Prem managers at this year's tournament & MORE

Happy 1st birthday to @footballcliches.bsky.social Dreamland, our subscription service which includes two extra episodes a month. Particular highlights for me have been the Premier League Years episode, Soccer Saturday and Keysey's blog... You can subscribe here: dreamland.footballcliches.com

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐙 𝐗𝐗𝐕 Football Clichés 🆚 The England Pod 🏆 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐮𝐩 𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐳 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 🏆 ❓ Wikipedia-certified "Battles Of", hat-trick merchants, official match balls, UK-based 2006 Trinidadians, sequences ahoy, ex-Prem managers at this year's tournament & MORE

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Stutter steps, soirées & Schwimmer's divorce: a cultural review of the Champions League final 🔊 Switzerland’s little-known tournament scheduling stranglehold 🔊 The bad World Cup pub bunting begins 🔊 MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social first thing on Monday.... Let's have your questions, observations, football-linguistic contemplation, footballers' names in things & anything else at all for the very final Adjudication Panel of the season

Dreamland Episode 24: out tomorrow. dreamland.footballcliches.com

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒕 𝑯𝒂𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒔: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 & 𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐢𝐧𝐜: The exact gait of a referee going over to check the VAR monitor & the epidemic of fans "coming in peace" to rival club forums @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Spurs "circling the drain"? 🔊 Bruno Fernandes forensics 🔊 Farmers taking penalties against Chris Kirkland 🔊 "Keys and Gray could do a job for a struggling state broadcaster somewhere" 🔊 AND MUCH MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

We're recording May's 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬' 𝐌𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐭 𝐇𝐚𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐬 on Wednesday... DM/email me a ~𝟑𝟎-𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜, 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 — your ultimate "is it just me or..." micro-phenomenon — and we'll select our favourite six. Cheers!

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social on Monday.... Let's have your questions, observations, football-linguistic radicalisation, footballers' names in things & anything else at all for this season's penultimate Adjudication Panel Cheers!

Ep. 23 of DREAMLAND is out now, subscribers! 𝟗𝟔/𝟎𝟔/𝟏𝟔/𝟐𝟔: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐄𝐫𝐚𝐬 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 Les Ferdinand scoring headers you don’t see any more, that Essien goal and the cultural legacy of December 2006 & enjoying Dimitri Payet while we could... Sign up here ⬇️⬇️⬇️ dreamland.footballcliches.com

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 The final incremental title-race status update of 2025/26 🔊 An effortlessly spot-on Europa League final prediction 🔊 Spygate super-schadenfreude 🔊 Eminent anthropologists with Peter Drury’s voice 🔊 MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social later on.... Let's have your questions, observations, football-linguistic celebrations, footballers' names in things & anything else at all for the midweek Adjudication Panel Cheers!

10 years after the "Battle of the Bridge" failed to achieve it, it is time to confront a threshold met by only 0.11% of Premier League games ever (compared to the World Cup's whopping 2.3%)... When does a football match warrant its own Wikipedia page? for @theathleticfc.bsky.social 🔓

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 A brief history of between-the-legs flicked finishes in English football 🔊 Is 4-2 a "thumping"? 🔊 Serviceable Premier League back-up strikers in ski equipment 🔊 Adam Wharton's backflip ratio 🔊 AND MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social on Monday.... Let's have your questions, observations, football-linguistic intoxication, footballers' names in things & anything else at all for the Adjudication Panel Cheers!

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐙 𝐗𝐗𝐈𝐕 Football Clichés 🆚 @sweeperpod.bsky.social 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 ❓ Argentinian footballspeak, made-up football podcasts, World Cup coastlines, transport-themed top-flight outfits, fake Brazilian internationals, La Liga longitude & MUCH MORE

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 The overlooked aspects of the West Ham corner chaos 🔊 The Premier League's alphabetical time bomb 🔊 Five-star Joe Cole 🔊 Footballers’ names in inexplicably Urdu songs by Robert Palmer 🔊 AND MUCH MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social on Monday.... Let's have your questions, observations, football-linguistic preoccupations, footballers' names in things & anything else at all for the Adjudication Panel Cheers!

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 The Champions League semi-finals: a cultural review 🔊 An Evening With Eden Hazard (ft. Rickie Lambert) 🔊 The Andy Gray of the Faroe Islands 🔊 Keysey's typo of the week 🔊 AND SO MUCH MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

We're recording FOOTBALL CLICHES on Thursday morning after Bayern vs PSG, so let's have your questions, observations, football-linguistic excavations, footballers' names in things & anything else - from the Champions League and beyond - for the midweek Adjudication Panel Cheers!

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 The trickiest title-race classification task so far 🔊 How many fixtures constitute a "pile-up"? 🔊 Under-10s open-top bus parades 🔊 6-0-6 awkwardness aplenty 🔊 AND MUCH MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social @nickmiller79.bsky.social

Recording a post-Bank Holiday FOOTBALL CLICHES on Tuesday morning... Let's have your questions, observations, football-linguistic aggravations, footballers' names in things & anything else at all for the Adjudication Panel. Cheers!

𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐄𝐩. 𝟐𝟐: 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰! 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐍𝐨.𝟑: 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐀𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐡, 𝐈𝐚𝐧 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 Operatic wondergoal vocals, the last of the truly zen co-commentators, and a long-overdue examination of the national-treasure credentials of the barometer-in-chief of every England fan’s tournament emotions

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒕 𝑯𝒂𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒔: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 & 𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐢𝐧𝐜: A listener’s toilet-cubicle obsession & the minor things that instantly shatter the elite-level feel of a professional matchday @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

We're recording April's Listeners' Mesut Haaland Dicks on Wednesday... DM/email ([email protected]) me a ~30-second voicenote about your very specific footballing fascination or irritation — a sight, sound, smell, spectacle, stimulation, anything — and we'll select the best six. Cheers!