The Grand Slams are trying to placate players over privacy concerns after Gauff incident, and her and many others' comments, at the Australian Open ⬇️

www.nytimes.com/athletic/721...

New: Football Clichés: Lee Dixon on toast, “advantage City” & a commentator's Copacabana complex Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: Sunday Supplement pastry queries, a cultural review of Manchester 2 Arsenal 1, Darren Fletcher...

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🔊 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

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Markéta Vondroušová charged with refusing doping test after ‘acute stress reaction’ The 2023 Wimbledon champion said she is “working to clear my name” in a statement on social media. She could face a four-year suspension.

Former Wimbledon champion Markéta Vondroušová charged with refusing doping test after ‘acute stress reaction’ and could face four-year ban.

Her lawyer tells us that “we are certain that once the full context is understood, her name will be cleared.”

www.nytimes.com/athletic/720...

Markéta Vondroušová charged with refusing doping test after ‘acute stress reaction’ The 2023 Wimbledon champion said she is “working to clear my name” in a statement on social media. She could face a four-year suspension.

Former Wimbledon champion Markéta Vondroušová charged with refusing doping test after ‘acute stress reaction’ and could face four-year ban.

Her lawyer tells us that “we are certain that once the full context is understood, her name will be cleared.”

www.nytimes.com/athletic/720...

How are people still getting annoyed at underarm serves? It’s like being angry with Carlos Alcaraz for playing a disguised drop shot.

On a totally legitimate tactic and one of tennis’ weirdest pieces of ‘etiquette’

Column (free to read) ⬇️

www.nytimes.com/athletic/719...

Ah, thanks so much!

New: Football Clichés: Unexpected Stevenage, premature hauntings & the Premier League goal caught on CCTV Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the imminent demise of the iconic Champions League match ball, Carlos Queiroz's highly...

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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

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For the first time, the pickleball slam features a non-former tennis star, pickleball world No. 1 Anna Leigh Waters.

Spoke to her, Agassi and Bouchard about where the event and the sport is heading - especially in relation to tennis ⬇️

www.nytimes.com/athletic/719...

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson: Where are Liverpool going and where is Iraola going? Jimbo is joined by Charlie Eccleshare, Colin Millar & Liam Tharme in the Totally studios to discuss Tuesday nights Champions League quarter-finals.No remontée at Anfield for Liverpool who lose 2-0...

🚨WEDNESDAY POD!🚨

It's @acjimbo.bsky.social, @cdeccleshare.bsky.social, @colinmillar.bsky.social & @liamtharme.bsky.social watching all the football. And pickleball 👀

🔄Liverpool did a reverse PSG?
🥲Griezmann's glorious farewell?
🍒Where next for Iraola?
🤍Leeds win at Old Trafford!

pod.fo/e/3fec36

How are people still getting annoyed at underarm serves? It’s like being angry with Carlos Alcaraz for playing a disguised drop shot.

On a totally legitimate tactic and one of tennis’ weirdest pieces of ‘etiquette’

Column (free to read) ⬇️

www.nytimes.com/athletic/719...

For the first time, the pickleball slam features a non-former tennis star, pickleball world No. 1 Anna Leigh Waters.

Spoke to her, Agassi and Bouchard about where the event and the sport is heading - especially in relation to tennis ⬇️

www.nytimes.com/athletic/719...

Clattenburg’s not wrong in saying it should remain a penalty, but a sign of how farcical the whole thing is that everything he says - supposedly from a position of knowledge/insight - is instantly contradicted

Player alleges racial abuse from crowd at second-tier tennis event in Madrid Jordan's Abdullah Shelbayh asked for at least one person to be removed during his ATP Tour Challenger match against Hungary's Zsombor Piros.

Quite a grim story from the Challenger in Madrid

www.nytimes.com/athletic/718...

New: Football Clichés: FA Cup lustre status, Ally McCoist's cliche mashup... and every Premier League game ever Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: reviewing a perfectly-formed set of FA Cup quarter-finals, Ally McCoist combines three subtly ...

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

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@cdeccleshare.bsky.social

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson: Totally Extra: Liverpool 4-3 Newcastle, 30 years on Jimbo is joined by Duncan Alexander, Charlie Eccleshare and George Caulkin to open up the Totally Extra almanac to exactly 30 years ago, on the Liverpool 4-3 Newcastle page.The Magpies were the gre...

🚨SATURDAY POD!🚨

Let @acjimbo.bsky.social, @georgecaulkin.bsky.social, @oilysailor.bsky.social & @cdeccleshare.bsky.social transport you back to a time of Faustino Asprilla, Firestarter and FA Carling Premiership🍻

The greatest game in the history of our league🤩

pod.fo/e/3eed48

Andy Murray and the tennis stars seeking a different kind of return on and off the court

Spoke to Andy Murray about his latest investment - in running shoe brand Hylo (a former world No. 1 investing in a running company, sounds familiar) - and his post-retirement role as an investor. And why so many tennis players go down that route

www.nytimes.com/athletic/714...

Also got into the kind of coaching role that would appeal, punditry and who he likes, and his contentment with a slower paced family-centric life

Andy Murray and the tennis stars seeking a different kind of return on and off the court

Spoke to Andy Murray about his latest investment - in running shoe brand Hylo (a former world No. 1 investing in a running company, sounds familiar) - and his post-retirement role as an investor. And why so many tennis players go down that route

www.nytimes.com/athletic/714...

What a joy this was.

And mildly impressing Susie Dent by mentioning that a verb was transitive a massive one in the eye for the haters who said doing Latin A-level would be pointless.

New: Football Clichés: Susie Dent on taliswomen, gilt-edged chances, and lacksadaisical defending The pod welcomed the queen of Countdown's dictionary corner Susie Dent to examine the language of football in the sort of detail we've always dreamt/dreamed of. Susie takes us through the ironic de...

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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!

Thanks so much to everyone who came last night!

New: Football Clichés: The Carabao Supremacy, yodelling commentators & the absolute Joe Hart Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: a cultural review of the Carabao Cup final, a yodelling commentator at Craven Cottage, Glenn H...

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

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Iga Świątek splits with Wim Fissette after 18 months, 1 Wimbledon title and up-and-down changes Świątek won her first Wimbledon title with Fissette, but ongoing changes to her game have also produced inconsistent results.

Fissette gone, but was he really the issue? Big call from Swiatek, even if not a surprising one

www.nytimes.com/athletic/714...

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson: Newcastle blitzed by Barca as Arsenal + Man City do battle at Wembley Jimbo welcomes Duncan Alexander, Charlie Eccleshare and Mark Carey into the studio to discuss another busy night of Champions League football and look ahead to the first domestic trophy of the seas...

🚨THURSDAY POD!🚨

It's @acjimbo.bsky.social, @oilysailor.bsky.social, @cdeccleshare.bsky.social, @markcarey93.bsky.social and a whole lotta football🔥

🇪🇸Barca hit 7 past Newcastle
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Kane still underrated
☕️Pep & Mikel chat about Kepa
🔫Leeds as a Bond villain

pod.fo/e/3b1fc9

Iga Świątek loses absurd 73-match tennis streak in shock Miami Open defeat (Gift Article) The six-time Grand Slam champion's loss to Magda Linette was her first opening-match defeat since 2021.

Iga Swiatek said she is in “the worst nightmare a tennis player can have” after one of the most absurd win-streaks in tennis ended with a shock defeat to Magda Linette at the Miami Open.

Linette, the world No. 50 snapped Swiatek’s run of 73 consecutive opening-match wins, which dated back to 2021

Wimbledon’s tennis expansion explained: Why new ruling unlocks plans for 39 new courts What are the expansion plans for Wimbledon, and why is there so much opposition?

Things could still change, but Wimbledon has been given major boost in its plans, contested by local residents groups, to build 39 new courts at Wimbledon Park golf course across the road. AELTC feels it needs the expansion to compete with the other slams

www.nytimes.com/athletic/582...

Given the context, how trademark a goal it was, has there ever been, pound for pound, a more rolling back the years goal than Salah's last night?

a soccer player wearing a jersey with the word amn on it ALT: a soccer player wearing a jersey with the word amn on it

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Big night for fans of shots and goals 🥅⚽️

Who's going all the way in the Champions League? 🏆

@acjimbo.bsky.social, @oilysailor.bsky.social, @cdeccleshare.bsky.social & @markcarey93.bsky.social may have answers tomorrow...

And which is bigger? The Carabao Cup final or Spurs v Forest?

New: Football Clichés: GoPro goalkeepers & textbook crossfield-pass apologies: The listeners' loves & hates Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker entertain this month's listener entries for Mesut Haaland Dicks, as the Clichés faithful nominate their niche footballing fascinations and irritati...

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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

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New: Football Clichés: ”My baby looks like Gary Megson", MOTD donking & in dreamland with Bodo/Glimt Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the tense early exchanges of Dave's parenthood, Peter Drury resorting to the L-word at the Emi...

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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

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