Ben Knepler

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@FootballCliches Enjoyed hearing Jon Champion in the first few minutes say “Szoboszlai decided the first meeting with a coruscating free kick”. No way Le Seux on co-comms (or most viewers) has ever heard the word coruscating before.

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@FootballCliches This surely needs its own dedicated podcast episode. I’ve never seen anything so awkward or painful.

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@FootballCliches I think the World Cup draw needs its own dedicated Football Cliches episode. I’ve never seen anything so awkward and painful.

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@FootballCliches Spence was doing the defending. Not having that!

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@FootballCliches on Adam Armstrong’s goal the commentator described the pass as a “perfectly flighted cut back” when it was straight along the ground. Surely “flighted” can only be used to describe an airborne pass?!

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@FootballCliches is the referee writing the Ronaldo booking (or pretending to write the booking) on his hand?!

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@FootballCliches Has this ever either actually sped up or delayed the restart? Or is it just to show the crowd how much you care?

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@FootballCliches I see I’ve missed the deadline, but just saw the highlights of West Ham/Burnley and when Paqueta scored there was a textbook example of scorer and defender fighting over the ball inside the goal ahead of a restart. Proper playground stuff, worthy of discussion.

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@FootballCliches Wjw

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@FootballCliches Tim Howard saying that McTominay “deserves every ounce of playing time he gets” is jarring. Maybe goalies measure time differently.

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@FootballCliches Hearing Nigel Reo-Coker on the @BBCSport football daily podcast yesterday talk about Spurs’ recent transfer failings and say “there’s a lot of players who have fallen by the waistline going to Tottenham” (32:00) just made my day.

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@bryansgunn 👏👏

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@FootballCliches 😂Peter Drury final line before ad break ahead of Man City-Arsenal: “The margins have tightened, and in a few minutes from now, the titans will march”
Don’t know how long he’d been preparing that, but should have been left in draft folder.

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@FootballCliches Peter Drury describing Liverpool as Man City’s most “rivalrous” opponents, while technically probably ok, feels wrong for football commentary. Peak Drury though.

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@jamie_laz @piersmorgan @PiersUncensored Well said 👏

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@Owais_LTU @FootballCliches Pedestrian?

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@matthewjh Yup, my daughter made a pitch deck for kittens during the pandemic. We now have 2 cats.

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@FootballCliches Has there ever been a better player mispronunciation than Robbie Earle saying “Saint Maximum”?

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Literally no hint of innuendo from the US commentators. @CDEccleshare @rich__cohen

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@FootballCliches great stuff from John Strong “Kieffer Moore is on up front for Dan James. That’s 10 extra inches you get on the end of long balls”