Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social on Monday... Send in your niche pod correspondence — questions, observations, semi-affectionate commentator shaming, footballers' names in things, etc — for the Adjudication Panel. Cheers!

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Dave's subliminal Andy Gray 🔊 Mourinho's box-office rating 🔊 Inadvertent footballers’ names in wrestling pods 🔊 @karelprince_: a vital public service 🔊 Cross-referencing players' initials with UK postcodes @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Dave's subliminal Andy Gray 🔊 Mourinho's box-office rating 🔊 Inadvertent footballers’ names in wrestling pods 🔊 @karelprince_: a vital public service 🔊 Cross-referencing players' initials with UK postcodes @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social on Wednesday... Let's have your inch-perfect correspondence & healthy curiosity – about the language of football, the Champions League and beyond – for the midweek Adjudication Panel Cheers!

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Oh, there's a new MOTD intro... 🔊 Football commentators in 14th-century bequeathals 🔊 Scott Parker goes a bit too deep about Burnley's low block 🔊 Keith Andrews' flourishing managerspeak 🔊 Keysey >>> Keano @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social on Monday... Send in your niche contributions for the pod — questions, observations, polite "well, actually"-ing, footballers' names in things, etc — for the Adjudication Panel. Cheers!

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social on Monday... Send in your niche contributions for the pod — questions, observations, polite "well, actually"-ing, footballers' names in things, etc — for the Adjudication Panel. Cheers!

Episode 7 of DREAMLAND is out now... 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: Making sense of the transfer window Why the Turkish deadline = a Tesco Express at 8pm on a Sunday, @cdeccleshare.bsky.social overimagines transfer talks, @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social's accidental ITK era and more ENTER DREAMLAND ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Episode 7 of DREAMLAND is out now... 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: Making sense of the transfer window Why the Turkish deadline = a Tesco Express at 8pm on a Sunday, @cdeccleshare.bsky.social overimagines transfer talks, @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social's accidental ITK era and more ENTER DREAMLAND ⬇️⬇️⬇️

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 The tone-lowering advertising hoardings of England Away 🔊 Cape Verde: World Cup Blackpool 🔊 How unfinished is Ange's business? 🔊 McCarthy & Pulis podcast 🔊 A dark-arts-enabling, top-flight physio writes in @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social on Wednesday... Send in any questions, observations, protests/corrections, international-break curiosities, footballers' names in things or anything else for the midweek Adjudication Panel Ta!

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 MOTD intro scandal! 🔊 The second coming of Michael Owen 🔊 #AccidentalClichesPod in FA rulings 🔊 What if a team collected all the spare points from Premier League draws? 🔊 Cat-amongst-pigeons goals 🔊 MORE @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social @jamestmaw.bsky.social

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social & @jamestmaw.bsky.social on Monday... Let's have your niche footballing correspondence – on the international break and beyond – for the Adjudication Panel. Cheers!

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES QUIZ 𝐗𝐗𝐈 Clichés 🆚 @liberopodcast.bsky.social ❓ World Cup winners with prime ministers' names, Premier League beanpoles, top-flight match balls, footballers dubbed into other languages, an apparently obligatory question about the 1930 World Cup, and... Happy Hunting Grounds

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES QUIZ 𝐗𝐗𝐈 Clichés 🆚 @liberopodcast.bsky.social ❓ World Cup winners with prime ministers' names, Premier League beanpoles, top-flight match balls, footballers dubbed into other languages, an apparently obligatory question about the 1930 World Cup, and... Happy Hunting Grounds

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Superb (albeit unverified) crowd shout at Grimsby 🔊 Troy Deeney's pancake 🆚 Joel Ward's kitchen sink 🔊 Hyperliteral post-goal noises at Brighton 🔊 Tinpot NYT crossword 🔊 Jack GTSHEHFA Grealish 🔊 AND MORE @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social @nickmiller79.bsky.social

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social & @nickmiller79.bsky.social on Monday... We already have some pure gold for the Adjudication Panel but feel free to add to the pile of high-curiosity niche footballing correspondence, from this weekend or beyond Cheers!

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social & @nickmiller79.bsky.social on Monday... We already have some pure gold for the Adjudication Panel but feel free to add to the pile of high-curiosity niche footballing correspondence, from this weekend or beyond Cheers!

Episode 6 of DREAMLAND is out now... 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 How far down the pecking order should "custodian" be? What clubs can be an "outfit"? When does a foot become a boot? And why isn't there backup for the most fundamental word of all? ENTER DREAMLAND ⬇️⬇️⬇️

'Gotta support the team though, haven't you?' I wrote about the world of shit TV football dialogue for @mundialmag.bsky.social, to learn why characters always talk about football in such a deeply weird way. Cheers to Adam from @footballcliches.bsky.social and Sean for chatting with me!

Episode 6 of DREAMLAND is out now... 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 How far down the pecking order should "custodian" be? What clubs can be an "outfit"? When does a foot become a boot? And why isn't there backup for the most fundamental word of all? ENTER DREAMLAND ⬇️⬇️⬇️

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒕 𝑯𝒂𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒔: The Listeners Your football fascinations & irritations, ft: Panenka-triggered keepers, empty-net warm-up anxiety & a novel grievance about penalty shootout scoring @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social @nickmiller79.bsky.social

We're recording August's edition of the Listeners' Mesut Haaland Dicks on Wednesday... DM/email me ([email protected]) a ~30-second voicenote about your very specific footballing fascination OR irritation — your ultimate "is it just me or....?" sensation — and we'll pick the best. Cheers!

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Dyche goes dating 🔊 Bogeys & doughnuts: the inside story of Spurs’ statement win at the Etihad 🔊 Footballing events too big to be “sliding-doors moments” 🔊 A classic spoonerism, textbook piledrivers & MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social on Monday... Send in your niche correspondence — questions, observations, football-linguistic quandaries you'd never considered before, footballers' names in things, etc — for the Adjudication Panel.

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social on Monday... Send in your niche correspondence — questions, observations, football-linguistic quandaries you'd never considered before, footballers' names in things, etc — for the Adjudication Panel.

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Jon Champion lowers the tone in the Ibrox commentary gantry 🔊 Common football-perpetuated geographical errors in audio drama 🔊 Monday Night Football's league-table scrolling disgrace 🔊 Sean Dyche X Big Sam @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social on Wednesday... Send in any questions, observations, game's-gone-ing, footballers' names in things, football clichés affecting your daily life or anything else for the midweek Adjudication Panel Cheers!

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Spare a thought for the MOTD reviewers 🔊 You fear for/they'll be fine: The verdicts 🔊 Steve Sidwell challenges John Hartson’s absolute crown 🔊 Farage's flawed footballspeak 🔊 Stockley Park's FRESH CRISIS @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social on Monday... Let's have your questions, observations and curiosities — from the opening weekend of the Premier League and far beyond — for the Adjudication Panel to get stuck into. Cheers!

Episode 5 of DREAMLAND is out now... 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐄𝐂𝐓 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐎𝐍 From 87-point champions to 25.9-goal Golden Boot winners to city-break Europa League winners, we attempt to construct the most plausibly optimum season of domestic and European football. ENTER DREAMLAND ⬇️⬇️⬇️

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 8.55 seconds! The nichest world record in football broken again 🔊 The extinguishing of Celeste’s Sky Sports flame 🔊 The first guests on Monday Night Football & other niche Prem predictions for 25/26 🔊 MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social on Wednesday... Send in your questions, observations & appeals for football-linguistic clarification — plus your suggestions of VERY specific categories for our Premier League predictions. Cheers!

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social on Wednesday... Send in your questions, observations & appeals for football-linguistic clarification — plus your suggestions of VERY specific categories for our Premier League predictions. Cheers!

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 A cultural mini-review of the traditional curtain-raiser 🔊 Absolute bottom-tier use of the word "amid" 🔊 Dean Saunders plays the hits 🔊 Wycombe’s new goalscoring verb 🔊 Richard Keys’s little brick 🔊 MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 A cultural mini-review of the traditional curtain-raiser 🔊 Absolute bottom-tier use of the word "amid" 🔊 Dean Saunders plays the hits 🔊 Wycombe’s new goalscoring verb 🔊 Richard Keys’s little brick 🔊 MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social on Monday... Let's have your niche footballing correspondence — on this weekend of EFL & Community Shield action and beyond — for the Adjudication Panel's attention. Cheers!

The Video Games episode of @footballcliches.bsky.social Dreamland was worth the annual subscription money alone. Brilliantly researched, emotive and genuinely hilarious in places. Great work @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social @cdeccleshare.bsky.social

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social on Monday... Let's have your niche footballing correspondence — on this weekend of EFL & Community Shield action and beyond — for the Adjudication Panel's attention. Cheers!

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Welcome to Conor Coady, Wrexham 🔊 Astonishing scenes in the edit history of Jimmy Greaves’ Wikipedia page 🔊 The alphabetical distribution of Europe's pre-embryonic top five league tables 🔊 Textbook Townsend @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social @nickmiller79.bsky.social

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social & @nickmiller79.bsky.social on Wednesday... Let's have your niche footballing correspondence, obscure lines of questioning, football-linguistic posers and anything else on your mind for the midweek Adjudication Panel. Cheers!

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social & @nickmiller79.bsky.social on Wednesday... Let's have your niche footballing correspondence, obscure lines of questioning, football-linguistic posers and anything else on your mind for the midweek Adjudication Panel. Cheers!

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Freak football injuries IRL 🔊 A cultural review of soap operas referencing the Lionesses 🔊 The glorious vanquished names of the FA Cup extra preliminary round 🔊 "The most 2011 transfer of all time" 🔊 MORE @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social @nickmiller79.bsky.social

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social & @nickmiller79.bsky.social on Monday... Still wading through a week's worth of DMs, but please do get in touch with your niche questions, obscure observations, footballers' names in things and any other recent curiosities. Cheers!

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social & @nickmiller79.bsky.social on Monday... Still wading through a week's worth of DMs, but please do get in touch with your niche questions, obscure observations, footballers' names in things and any other recent curiosities. Cheers!

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES QUIZ 𝐗𝐗 Football Clichés 🆚 The View From The Lane ❓ Absurdly-named new top-flight clubs, song-releasing footballers, football men dubbed into Portuguese, French & Russian, Wimbledon champions with Premier League surnames AND MUCH MORE

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES QUIZ 𝐗𝐗 Football Clichés 🆚 The View From The Lane ❓ Absurdly-named new top-flight clubs, song-releasing footballers, football men dubbed into Portuguese, French & Russian, Wimbledon champions with Premier League surnames AND MUCH MORE

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Semi-understandable sporting venue confusion 🔊 England’s Euro lifeline commentated on by 3-6 people simultaneously 🔊 Storm-weathering threshold 🔊 Clubs who "get their man" 🔊 Florian Wirtz on potato 🔊 MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

The bar for going “live” on bits of sporting news seems to be getting lower and lower. Marcus Rashford getting a loan to Barca getting the full treatment on the Beeb. Even the bloke texting it appears to feel the same way about it.