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!

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 A brief history of the Premier League tweeting "And breathe" 🔊 Commentators with the rare privilege of screaming their own name 🔊 Qatar ➡️ Kensington ➡️ Coventry: Keysey's 6,000-mile Instagram odyssey 🔊 MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

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

Episode 21 of DREAMLAND is out now, subscribers! Endless pot-shots, unashamed name-drops, a logo based on his own name, silencing the Doha doubters, potentially libellous drive-by innuendo and nearly 500 slices of near-weekly gold... in the blogs of Richard A.J. Keys Sign up here ⬇️⬇️⬇️

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Three glorious mid-game ways to enunciate Morgan Gibbs-White's surname 🔊 Matt Upson tackles football's oldest dilemma 🔊 Canadian bands in early 90s Premier League commentary 🔊 AND MUCH MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

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

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓 🔊 Sunday Supplement pastry emergency 🔊 Lee Dixon on toast 🔊 A cultural review of Man City 2-1 Arsenal 🔊 Steve McManaman’s descriptive demonyms 🔊 Coventry City, welcome home 🔊 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 ejaculations, footballers' names in things & anything else at all for the Adjudication Panel Cheers!

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

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓 🔊 The imminent demise of a Champions League icon 🔊 Highly obscure football in the background of US crime dramas 🔊 The Premier League goal caught only on CCTV 🔊 Jorge Mendes-backed dentists 🔊 AND MUCH MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

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

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓 🔊 A 9/10 commentator's curse 🔊 Will anyone be hit for six this season?! 🔊 How not to abbreviate Wolverhampton Wanderers 🔊 Half-and-half Shakespearean scarves 🔊 Non-football fans' No 1 formation 🔊 AND MORE @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social @nickmiller79.bsky.social

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

Considering becoming part of the 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒 membership? This is what you'll get... 🔓 Ad-free listening 🎙️ Two exclusive 𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃 episodes a month 🕹️ Access to 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐇𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬: 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐮𝐦 🆕 Our newly-launched Discord 🎟️ Pre-sale access to Clichés Live shows & free entry to live quizzes

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐙 𝐗𝐗𝐈𝐈𝐈 Clichés 🆚 @careerwegopod.bsky.social ❓ Experimental pitch markings, solo Prem Portugueezers, Premier League Dennises, the sound of cult football moments, incrementally-revealed career paths and... and Happy Hunting Grounds pod.fo/e/3f9964

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 A perfectly-formed set of FA Cup quarter-finals 🔊 McCoist's cliché mashup 🔊 Mankind's greatest achievement: eight-minute highlights of every Premier League game ever 🔊 AND MUCH MORE @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social @cdeccleshare.bsky.social

Recording a slightly-later-than-usual FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social on Tuesday morning... Let's have your questions, observations, objects of football-linguistic fascination, footballers' names in things & anything else for the Adjudication Panel

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓 🎙️ El Locos, no-nonsense penalty-taking full-backs, the demise of the Premier League own-goal machine, the nuances of the free role, beanpole strike partners & the long-lost art of poaching 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐗𝐈 @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social @zonal-marking.bsky.social

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓 🔊 The Booing of Benjamin White 🔊 Tanzania 0 Liechtenstein 1 🔊 8/10 fictional commentary on Sherlock & Co 🔊 "Head to head" 🆚 "Toe to toe" 🔊 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐧 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐀𝐭𝐞 𝟏𝟎𝟐𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐮𝐧𝐚 (𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝) 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 & 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬 @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social @nickmiller79.bsky.social

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

Episode 20 of 𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃 out now, subscribers! 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐎 Coping strategies when your team are under the cosh on the airwaves, revisiting the classified results culture war, European nights under the radio lights & the 1966 World Cup commentary once thought lost forever Sign up here ⬇️⬇️⬇️

I have ended the longest-ever article-less run by an elite-level, bald, UK-based @theathleticfc.bsky.social employee (530 days) by writing about my ongoing fascination with ludicrously convoluted football stats – and the death of the milestone at the hands of football content. (Free to read, enjoy!)

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 🆚 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲, with @susiedentwords.bsky.social The lexicography ace joins us to talk about the dictionary Big Three, football's glorious vocabulary, Wenger speaking Alsatian, the death of "bouncebackability" AND MUCH MORE This was brilliant!

Tomorrow.

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 A cultural review of the Carabao Cup final 🔊 Yodelling commentators at Craven Cottage 🔊 The rise & rise of Joe “Absolute” Hart 🔊 Richard Keys’ voice in slapstick megalomaniac cartoon villains 🔊 AND MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

Ep. 19 of 𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃 is out now! 𝐍𝐮𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐠-𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝-𝐮𝐩 Saint & Greavsie vs Football Focus, #thecalmbeforethestorm, the glorious Sky Sports opening montages of the late 1990s, why 2026 will be a bounce-back year for World Cup squad guides, and much more... Sign up ⬇️

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social on Monday... Let's see your questions, observations, football-linguistic determinations, footballers' names in things & anything else at all – from the Carabao Cup final & beyond – for the Adjudication Panel

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒕 𝑯𝒂𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒔: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 & 𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐢𝐧𝐜: GoPro goalkeepers, the world's 60th-best top flight & a man who thinks he’s cracked the pressing structures of elite football @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓 🔊 "My baby looks like Gary Megson" 🔊 Donking on Match of the Day 🔊 Max Dowman’s official clamour rating 🔊 Jonathan Pearce’s Robot Wars ejaculations 🚨 games.footballcliches.com 🔊 AND MUCH MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

Right, there were only so many 1am DMs asking for a Level 5 I could take, so... we're very excited to launch the 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐒 daily game... Guess the Premier League scorer at a Premier League away ground and see how far you get! Play it here ⬇️⬇️⬇️ games.footballcliches.com

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

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

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓 Our latest 𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒕 𝑯𝒂𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒔 guest is esteemed pintsman, boozer-synonym merchant, BBC live-text existentialist, mid-game pub-TV clapper, Damien Comolli PR machine, "limbs" sceptic & Dead Pubs supremo 𝐉𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐲 𝐌𝐜𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐬𝐡 Plus: Alan Brazil & Dean Saunders on... Nirvana

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓 🔊 A full classification of FA Cup fifth-round exits & progressions 🔊 A new shade of yellow card is issued 🔊 VAR delays of the 1st century AD 🔊 Richard Keys presents the Indy 500 🔊 AND MUCH MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @nickmiller79.bsky.social

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social on Monday... Let's have your questions, observations, football-linguistic proclamations, footballers' names in things or anything else at all – from the FA Cup & beyond – for the Adjudication Panel Ta!