Marmoush's hat-trick of Etihad gasps, Messi in Mobland & what makes a "shrewd" signing

Marmoush's hat-trick of Etihad gasps, Messi in Mobland & what makes a "shrewd" signing

Football Cliches · 2025-05-21

Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare & David Walker. On the agenda: Will Still’s inevitable English football unveiling edges closer, the Etihad reaction to Omar Marmoush’s wonder goal, Lionel Messi pops up in Mobland, mid-table Eredivisie clubs in sci-fi novels and some glorious Anglo-Italian commentary from Serie A.

Meanwhile, the panel decide what makes a signing "shrewd" and hear a story of some overengineered 6-a-side organisation.

Adam's book, Extra Time Beckons, Penalties Loom: How to Use (and Abuse) The Language of Football, is OUT NOW: https://geni.us/ExtraTimeBeckons

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Football Cliches

Deconstructing the gloriously unique language of football – the words, the phrases and the tiny things you didn't think you cared about – with Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare & David Walker.
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