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Charlie Eccleshare
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Tennis writer, The Athletic. Previously Spurs correspondent.
Football Cliches, Totally Football Show podcasts. Link to first book below
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Possibly the best match Fritz has ever played. And yet, against Alcaraz, it still wasn't enough

www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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THE
FOOTBALL CLICHES
PODCAST

🔊 vote.footballcliches.com

🔊 Head-loss 🆚 Head's gone

🔊 Steve McManaman's Accidentally Patronising Co-Commentary

🔊 Famous footballing brothers in mermaid drama credits

🔊 Piers 🤝 Keysey

🔊 MUCH MORE

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New: Football Clichés: Accidentally patronising commentary, the Battle of the Big Dan B's & Keysey meets Piers
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: Clichés catchphrases in unexpected places, Steve McManaman's accidentally patronising co-comm...
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November 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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The ATP Finals used to be a sanctuary for the sandwich generation, with Zverev (twice), Medvedev and Tsitsipas all former winners.

Now, apart from Zverev, they can't even qualify. And Zverev has it all to do to make an impact in Turin

www.nytimes.com/athletic/677...
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Saudi Tennis Federation had three-year opt-out clause with Next Gen Finals and have decided to exercise it, thus ending agreement to host through 2027 (as @reemabulleil.bsky.social reported earlier).

ATP now starts bidding process to host the event from 2026 ⬇️

www.nytimes.com/athletic/678...
Next Gen ATP Finals to leave Saudi Arabia, cutting contract short by two years
The deal between the Saudi Tennis Federation and the men's tour was meant to run through 2027.
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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🚨 THURSDAY POD!🚨

@acjimbo.bsky.social, @cdeccleshare.bsky.social, @markcarey93.bsky.social & @oilysailor.bsky.social round up Wednesday's UCL action AND look ahead to MD11 in the EPL 👊

🤔 City or Liverpool on Sunday?
🐈‍⬛ Will Sunderland stop Arsenal?
⚪️ Can Spurs beat United at home?!

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The Totally Football Show with James Richardson: Will Haaland help City topple Liverpool? Will the Black Cats be bad luck for Arsenal?
Jimbo's accompanied by Charlie Eccleshare, Mark Carey and Duncan Alexander for a closer inspection of Wednesday night's Champions League action - and a look ahead to MD11 in the Premier League.In t...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Exclusive: ATP signs content partnership with Spotify, as it continues its pursuit of Gen Z/Millennial fans. Follows similar deals with TikTok and Overtime earlier this year. Will include exclusive ATP Finals documentary

www.nytimes.com/athletic/678...
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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THE
FOOTBALL CLICHES
PODCAST

Our 𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒕 𝑯𝒂𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒔 guest is Berbatov nutmegger, goalkeeper-cap lamenter, front-flip throw-in historian, Premier League career advisor, studio-demanding diva, classical musicman and comedian... 𝐕𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐨 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞

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New: Football Clichés: Vittorio Angelone on orchestral anthems, Lev Yashin's cap, and badge-avoiding classy touches
We’d love your vote for Football Clichés as Podcast of the Year at the FSA Awards: ⁠https://vote.footballcliches.com/⁠The pod welcomes comedian Vittorio Angelone for the latest edition of Me...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Some further details in here on how the 'Battle of the Sexes' is going to work - including no second serves and the dimensions Kyrgios will be hitting into to be nine per cent smaller ⬇️

www.nytimes.com/athletic/677...
Aryna Sabalenka, Nick Kyrgios will play ‘Battle of the Sexes’ tennis match organized by agency
The WTA world No. 1 will take on the ATP No. 652 in December in Dubai.
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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🚨 THURSDAY POD!🚨

@acjimbo.bsky.social, @cdeccleshare.bsky.social, @tomwfootball.bsky.social & @jaydmharris.bsky.social with you for a whole lot of Carabao & PL fun...

🤨 Slot's selection gamble
❌ Arsenal's stingy defence
🤪 Tottenham v Chelsea = pure chaos
🗺️ Mind-boggling map chat

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The Totally Football Show with James Richardson: Will Slot’s cup gamble pay off against Villa? Will Spurs v Chelsea be crazy again?
Jimbo's got Charlie Eccleshare, Jay Harris and Tom Williams alongside him in the Totally studio for Carabao Cup and Premier League MD10 fun and games.We begin with the midweek League Cup action - h...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Saudi Arabia and tennis become ever more intertwined with new 1,000 men’s event (the rung below the slams)

And, as is precisely the point with normalising this sort of thing, the human rights concerns around the nation seem to now make barely a ripple ⬇️

www.nytimes.com/athletic/651...
Saudi Arabia’s tennis investment and ATP tournament: How it is changing the sport
The kingdom's Masters 1000 event is the culmination of a slow integration into the sport, and a reduction in questions about its ethics.
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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THE
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𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒕 𝑯𝒂𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒔: The Listeners

Your football fascinations & irritations, ft: Scottish League Two scores, goal kick/penalty gesture chaos & one of the most nuanced observations on the language of football...

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New: Football Clichés: Scottish League Two scores, leaked fines lists & the sixth penalty taker: 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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October 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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If, as expected but not yet confirmed, the Saudi 1,000 takes place in Feb, one of the most affected areas will be South America.

Spoke to one of the region's most successful players Diego Schwartzman, who fears for the future of South American tennis ⬇️

www.nytimes.com/athletic/650...
Diego Schwartzman interview: South American tennis and the future of a global sport
Argentina's most successful male player since Juan Martin del Potro discusses the future of tennis in South America.
www.nytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Significant moment in tennis, as Saudi Arabia gets the big men's tournament it's craved ⬇️

www.nytimes.com/athletic/651...
Saudi Arabia gets tennis ATP Masters 1000 tournament it craved, as early as 2028
The kingdom will host a 56-player men's event, one rung below the Grand Slams, but its place in the tennis calendar is to be confirmed.
www.nytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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THE
FOOTBALL CLICHES
PODCAST

🔊 Gary Neville finds a new frequency at Anfield

🔊 Is Marinakis too Chaos Serie A for Our League?

🔊 The earliest you can "not want this first half to end"

🔊 Keysey’s £400m Stars of the Sixties

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New: Football Clichés: Live show legends, Liverpool's 18ft 10in strike force & a new Neville noise
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: Gary Neville finds a new frequency of noise at Anfield, whether Evangelos Marinakis is too "ch...
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October 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Think the Forest situation reflects worse on Marinakis than Postecoglou.

Any appointment where you think five PL games is enough to make a judgement is hugely misguided.
October 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Emma Raducanu has ended her tennis season, pulling out of WTA tournaments in Tokyo and Hong Kong over the next couple of weeks because of illness.

Story from @cdeccleshare.bsky.social ⤵️
Emma Raducanu ends tennis season, will continue with coach Francisco Roig into 2026
Raducanu has been hampered by illness at her past two events.
theathletic.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Emma Raducanu has been feeling unwell and decided to end her season, pulling out of her last two events in Tokyo + HK.

Focus turns to next year, when she’ll be continuing with coach Francisco Roig (initial arrangement was up until the end of 2025)

www.nytimes.com/athletic/672...
Emma Raducanu ends tennis season, will continue with coach Francisco Roig into 2026
Raducanu has been hampered by illness at her past two events.
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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THE
FOOTBALL CLICHES
PODCAST

🔊 Lee Dixon's got some new "goalkeeper's not saving that" hyperbole

🔊 Comedy own goals 🆚 Bizarre own goals

🔊 Mid-2010s Premier League clubs as sperm counts

🔊 Footballers who forget to retire

🔊 MUCH MORE

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New: Football Clichés: Own-goal flavours, casual retirements & football clubs as sperm counts
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: Lee Dixon invents some new "goalkeeper's not saving that" hyperbole, Sean Dyche's potential ne...
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October 14, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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THE
FOOTBALL CLICHES
PODCAST

🔊 Tuchel’s single biggest World Cup selection headache

🔊 Ex-Prem managers in University Challenge answers

🔊 Lampardian 94-year-old grandfathers

🔊 Backpedalling, waltzing & darting: the definitive 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐗𝐈

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New: Football Clichés: England's 25th-choice right-back & the definitive Movement XI
Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: early feedback from the Clichés Live tour, the latest clumsy football/politics crosso...
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October 9, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Jack Draper, the British world No. 8, has appointed Andy Murray’s former coach Jamie Delgado as his lead coach.

Delgado split with Grigor Dimitrov in September, having worked with the Bulgarian for three years, during which time Dimitrov returned to the world’s top 10.

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Jack Draper hires Andy Murray’s former coach Jamie Delgado as he builds to 2026 season
Draper's current lead coach, James Trotman, wants to spend less time traveling but will still be part of his team.
theathletic.com
October 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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THE
FOOTBALL CLICHES
PODCAST

🔊 Blow-openable title races

🔊 Punditspeak in the stands at Old Trafford?

🔊 Experimental football chat on @TheRestHistory

🔊 Fact-checking Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink’s Strictlyspeak

🔊 Keys & Gray on green cards

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New: Football Clichés: Blown-open title races, punditspeak on the terraces & Woltemade's weird penalty
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: whether the Premier League title race can be "blown open" after seven games, some tantalising ...
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October 7, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Why Federer's court speed commentary about Alcaraz and Sinner is sort-of-right and sort-of-wrong, and the problem with a metric which is both objectively measured by tournaments, and experienced subjectively by players

With @cdeccleshare.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/668...
Tennis court speed: How Roger Federer started an Alcaraz and Sinner conspiracy theory
The tennis great's comments on whether slower courts benefit the two top men's players provoked heated discussion.
www.nytimes.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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The thorny issue of court speeds, and why some of Federer's, and certainly Zverev's, comments missed the mark.

Part of this week's briefing, with @jameskhansen.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/athletic/668...
Tennis court speed: How Roger Federer started an Alcaraz and Sinner conspiracy theory
The tennis great's comments on whether slower courts benefit the two top men's players provoked heated discussion.
www.nytimes.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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THE
FOOTBALL CLICHES
PODCAST

🔊 The Champion/Brent noise ruling

🔊 Martin O’Neill (xG) 🆚 Jamie O’Hara (RAF pilots)

🔊 Somehow making it through all 14 secs of Europe’s Ryder Cup team chanting at Trump

🔊 Football’s archetypal "goldfish bowl"

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New: Football Clichés: xG's latest victim, Jamie O'Hara vs the RAF & football's goldfish bowls
Adam Hurrey is joined on the midweek Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: the definitive ruling on which David Brent sound was made by Jon Champion, fact-checki...
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October 2, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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After a diagnosis of spondyloarthritis 5 years ago, Eva Lys has to manage her body carefully. Which is one of the hardest things to do as an athlete.

She explains her ‘less is more’ approach, and why she won’t stay quiet on issues like inequality ⬇️

www.nytimes.com/athletic/667...
Eva Lys’ tennis rise up the WTA Tour is built on a ‘less is more’ approach. She explains why
The 23-year-old German, diagnosed with spondyloarthritis in 2020, cracked the world’s top 50 for the first time this week.
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM