Football in the dictionary, Gareth Southgate's annoying postman and The Timewasting XI

10/06/22 • 60 min

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by David Walker and Nick Miller for another Adjudication Panel. On the agenda: the Oxford English Dictionary's new football-related entries, the six-year saga that Gareth Southgate and his opinionated postman and Glenn Hoddle adding to the sub-genre of Unexpected Co-Commentator Noises.

Meanwhile, the panel decide how each footballing scoreline should best play out for the neutral and pick their lineup of cynical game-management aces for the Pure Timewasting XI

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Meanwhile, the panel decide how each footballing scoreline should best play out for the neutral and pick their lineup of cynical game-management aces for the Pure Timewasting XI

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Toe-plonks, fan extractors and the 'men against boys' threshold

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by David Walker and Nick Miller for the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda this week: Kevin Keegan hosting yet another obscure industry awards ceremony, an Irish variation on the new-fangled "draught excluder", a close inspection of Erling Haaland's signed hat-trick ball and John Terry gets the standard BeIn Sports treatment over in Qatar.

Meanwhile, the panel establish the criteria for a match to be labelled "men against boys" and whether differences in footballing class ever come in anything other than a "gulf".

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The crossbar crisis, regurgitated corners & a tricky trip to Google Road

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by David Walker and Nick Miller for the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda: the epidemic of non-regulation-height crossbars, Countdown's Susie Dent plants her flag on Clichés soil, a predictable twist for anti-VAR discourse and a very curious description of a Serie A penalty.

Meanwhile, the panel debate if a striker can be the "heartbeat" of a team and whether a Sunday league team can have their own footballing "way".

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