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”Snuffing out the danger", pre-match strolling & drinking the opposition's water: The listeners' loves & hates

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Episode ”Snuffing out the danger", pre-match strolling & drinking the opposition's water: The listeners' loves & hates

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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 irritations.

Among the selections are the curious tradition of a visiting team's pre-match stroll around the pitch, the reactions of fans behind a goal observed during an action replay, the moral seesaw of witnessing players drinking from opposition water bottles and the alarmingly low bar for things that make it into a centre-back’s pre-match TV analysis montage.

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