Football Cliches

The Football Cliches Quiz XXIII: Cliches vs Career We Go

FA Cup lustre status, Ally McCoist's cliche mashup... and every Premier League game ever

The Extinction XI

Biggleswade bragging rights, Tanzania 0 Liechtenstein 1 & Keysey's perfect Christmas

Football vs The Dictionary: Susie Dent on bus-parking & bouncebackability

The Carabao Supremacy, yodelling commentators & the absolute Joe Hart

GoPro goalkeepers & textbook crossfield-pass apologies: The listeners' loves & hates

”My baby looks like Gary Megson", MOTD donking & in dreamland with Bodo/Glimt

BBC live-text sad lads & watching football in the boozer, with Jimmy "Dead Pubs" McIntosh

FA Cup scares/dumpings/cruises, dark orange cards & Roman gladiator VAR

The freefall threshold, Benjamin Sesko's windows & the streets forgetting Santiago Munez

Co-commentary cues, flopping full-backs & the "one of our own" threshold, with Lucy Ward

The 5-a-side keepers' union & World Cup pub bunting: The listeners' loves & hates

Literally ghosting, Larry David's Champions League commentary & Sir Alex's 2011/12 title curse

Hoddle's Curse strikes again, the world-record fans' favourite & a saucy U-turn

The Forest-Watford Vortex, champagne players & Pep vs Daffy Duck

Generic Spurs punditry, regurgitating possession & ding-dong stalemates: The 500th episode

Introverted full-backs, radio commentary synchronicity & the Champions League of trees

”Absolute wimp", Arsenal's pre-ignited quadruple & a Doha denouement

Scorpion scepticism, 80% ball knowledge & Conor Coady's Football Clubs (2026 edition)

Flats that overlook stadiums & the optimum time for Sky Sports News: The listeners' loves & hates

The "what's eating Erling Haaland?" threshold, FA Cup anthem fears & Gary Weaver's Circle of Goals

Zohran Mamdani's PL Years & a chat with Éanna Hardwicke on playing Roy Keane in Saipan

The moment the AFCON final peaked, Wenger's Law & football gestures at bus stops

Properly getting out, cricketing ASMR, and shadow umpire’s call

Shane Todd on post-save goalkeeper emotions & professional footballer-botherer Rio Ferdinand

Semenyo's 0.028% return, six nicknames in 15 seconds & Scotland's bottom dogs

41-year-old blokes playing for prime Barca, Ken Barlow's terrace anthem, and the Sir Alex blessing

Resurgent corner flags, Eddie Howe's onslaught threshold & "the Pound Shop Potter”

Snake pits and minefields, the shadow follow-on, and catching on camera

That Man DCL, heading your granny & clowns in Slough bunkers

Domestic shadow-batting, no mugs, and spectator stress

Absolute dreamland: The Best of Football Clichés in 2025

Glove-spitting goalkeepers & edge-of-the-D drama at five-a-side: The listeners' loves & hates

North-east river supremacy, David Moyes' giant duck & Keysey's nutmegs

Tricky little sessions, daddy hundreds, and getting hit "amidships"

Unexpected Clive Tyldesley noises & Gabriel's hypothetical Arsenal own-goal hell

Uzbekistan vs Colombia at 3am, the Infantino Shrug & a dubious bagsman

I Wanna Dance With Peter Drury, grinding out a 5-4 & Haaland's League One future

Commentator's curse conspiracies, homegrown stewards & Lee Hendrie's "highgevity”

Expected leaves, driving "on the up" & absolute Ebony Rainford-Brent

The Football Cliches Quiz XXII: Cliches vs Career We Go — The Decider

Arsenal's official title status, Idris Elba's prefix woe & the verb "to goal”

Lashing/dabbing a seed/cherry, moral victories, and why do the Aussies hate Bazball?

The "Club X til I die" loophole & torn hamstrings at the Battle of Hastings: The listeners' loves & hates

Premature dark-horsing, false-nine nostalgia & introducing... Cricket Clichés

On toast in his pocket, pulling up trees & The Number-and-a-Half XI

Accidentally patronising commentary, the Battle of the Big Dan B's & Keysey meets Piers

Vittorio Angelone on orchestral anthems, Lev Yashin's cap, and badge-avoiding classy touches

”Cool as custard”, Reo-Coker's hanky-panky & football's reigning Great Entertainers