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Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: reflections on a superb afternoon at the Cliches live show, Tom Cruise deploys the football plural, Gary Cotterill plumbs new press-conference depths, Manchester United are Arsenal 2008/09 in disguise, the fallout from Mike Dean's embellished anecdote, slightly-too-casual VAR announcements, the Gary Neville noise in a Kaiser Chiefs song, and much more.
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"Cliches Live in the sunshine, the Mike Dean content machine & ASMR in the EFL" is an episode of Football Cliches. Runtime 43 min. Published September 7, 2026. Hit play above to stream it here, or open the free Spot Sports app for background play and offline downloads.