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The Socially Distant Sports Bar
175: Adam Hurrey (Pt 1)
Ep. 268
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Welcome to this week's Socially Distant Sports Bar with Elis James, Mike Bubbins and Steff Garrero.
This is Part 1/ of this week’s episode.
Part 2 is out every week on Fridays. If you want to listen to the full podcast every TUESDAY, including 30 MINS of bonus content not available on the free version, then head to either https://anchor.fm/nata-media/subscribe or https://www.patreon.com/distantpod
This week it’s a Guest Episode and Elis, Mike & Steff are joined by podcaster and writer Adam Hurrey.
ADAM HURREY
Adam presents the Football Cliches podcast https://theathletic.com/podcast/164-football-cliches/
He writes for The Athletic https://theathletic.com/author/adam-hurrey/ and has published books called Football Cliches https://www.amazon.co.uk/Football-Clich%C3%A9s-Adam-Hurrey/dp/1472220382 and Football Cliches World Cup Guide https://www.amazon.in/Football-Clich%C3%A9s-World-Guide-Ebook/dp/1472220560
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THIS WEEK’S SHOW
Steff: You can’t give the other team a sniff https://twitter.com/bryansgunn/status/1648934952312995840?s=46&t=3g2g_VVJEY-NqP6XnG6v4w
Elis: Saint & Greavsie’s last shows https://twitter.com/stusfootyflash/status/1650557437328384010?s=48&t=zPHzJgNfHyveYaOyKk-nfg
Adam: Sky Sports commentator Bill Leslie really gently promotes Dove deodorant, for absolutely no reason I can think of https://vimeo.com/46299082
Adam: Gary Lineker in Japan
BBC featurette: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpKOEc5UG14&ab_channel=ELMSWOOD48
Lineker advertises an energy drink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EGv1WRPQz8&ab_channel=hondara
Adam: A tour of Richard Keys’ Doha home (2015) https://streamable.com/0k3rty
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