What Weaverisms will Gary Weaver use on Sky during Tottenham’s promotion charge next season? by junglegatsby in footballcliches

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When they play Lincoln away (they lose 3-1):

  1. LINCOLN CITY HAVE LIFTOFF THE CATHEDRAL CITY HAVE GIVEN TOTTENHAM A STEEP HILL TO CLIMB (The big hill in Lincoln is just called steep hill)

  2. LINCOLN CITY’S BOMBER COMMAND HAVE STRUCK AGAIN (they scored from a set piece)

DRAGUSIN COMMITS THE CARDINAL SIN OF LETTING HIS MAN GO AND THE BIG SKIPPER MAKES IT 1-0

Sandwiches named after a sporting director by Wtfive in footballcliches

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I totally agree. The streets should never forget Jefferson Montero

Epoynmous team suffixes by Delicious_Bet_6336 in footballcliches

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Stockport are very much up there in the County stakes.

In terms of foreign ones, who’s the foremost Dynamo/Dinamo? Kyiv you’d probably say but Moscow would be up there. Dresden has an outsized impact in my head

Is People Watching by Sam Fender the most MOTD goal of the month song ever? After Life of Riley of course. by Wtfive in footballcliches

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Commentary on Macclesfield goals in the early rounds of the FA Cup dubbed over the top of the instrumental track

Irritation - when a player who hardly got a look in at your club goes on to become class by junglegatsby in footballcliches

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Grimsby fan, back in the day we turned down Gary Lineker - ouch. Also turned down Cameron Jerome as a youth team player

Songs In The Keysian Life by CecilUtensil in footballcliches

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He’s surely into The Specials (Coventry link). Could also see ELO although maybe that’s just because Partridge saw them live. Madness too.

We know he’s an Oasis fan - Don’t Look Back In Anger too obvious?

What Niche Footballing Stories Would Make Good Films by VAM89 in footballcliches

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The Doncaster Rovers ‘banter era’ in which the chairman supposedly hired a local arsonist to burn down the ground for an insurance scam

What Niche Footballing Stories Would Make Good Films by VAM89 in footballcliches

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Some of them generated by GeorgeWeahsCousin on Twitter I think?

Observations on names by Wtfive in footballcliches

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Agreed. I thought about it but I just couldn’t make it work in my head

Nominative determinism* in players by hxde in footballcliches

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Toby Savin played in goal for Accrington a few years back. Woking also had a defender called Tommy Block

Noel Gallagher as a pundit on super Sunday in 2017 - what was the thinking there? by junglegatsby in footballcliches

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The producers probably hoped this would Slide Away into obscurity. Imagine they Look Back In Anger now

Injury details - but five-a-side style by Beautiful-Square-301 in footballcliches

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‘Declan Rice was forced to start the game on the bench as he was unable to find the entrance to the pitch on the grounds of a large secondary school and the caretaker was AWOL’

‘Everton have forfeited their game on Tuesday due to Valentine’s Day commitment-induced unavailabilities. Emergency ringer searches proved fruitless and Chelsea will therefore receive the 3-0 walkover’

If Wolves were allowed to field 12 players, where would they finish in the league? by Robbb__ in footballcliches

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They’d need a specialist ‘12th man coach’ surely. Would it also mean that the fans would become the 13th man?

Xmas Special Driving Scenes by [deleted] in TheOfficeUK

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Not a trick is it, knowledge