Welcome to this week's learners' podcast. On this week's show Damon and Damian talk about footballing cliches. Click here to get the worksheets and vocabulary lists. Here is the transcript for the interview on footballing cliches with Adrian Byrne. Damian: Yes, so on todaya€™s show we are talking about footballing clichés and to help us understand a little bit more about what they are we interviewed a manager from England, a non-league manager, about what kind of clichés he uses and why. Damian: Adrian, how are you doing? Adrian: Yes, very well thanks, Damian. Damian: OK, talk a little bit about cliches. Adrian: Well, cliches, I mean theya€™re a€¦ I think the general public they watch a€˜Match of the Daya€™, you know, players tend to come out with the same things, managers tend to come out with the same things. Cliches you hear them again and again and, you know, it kind of a€¦ people think, ah, stupid footballers, stupid managers, but to be perfectly honest I think the thing about cliches is theya€™re cliches because they are very often true and theya€™re very often right. Gareth: Which is a cliché in itself Adrian a€¦in itself. Damian: Can you give us an example? Adrian: Well, you know, a€˜over the moona€™ I mean, you know, the elation of scoring, the elation of winning, you know, thata€™s how you feel a€˜over the moona€™. Damian: And the opposite of that of course is a€¦ Adrian: The classic, a€˜sick as a parrota€™. I mean, Ia€™m not sure how parrots, you know, generally feel but a€˜sick as a parrota€™ has kind of come into the, you know, into the sort of the language of football. Everyone knows what you mean by it, you know, youa€™ve just lost a penalty shoot-out, youa€™ve just been knocked out of the Cup in the semi-final, youa€™ve lost the League on goal difference, youa€™ve just missed the play-off place a€“ a€˜sick as parrota€™. Everyone knows what it means, you know, and really ita€™s almost a€¦ ita€™s so cliched it just a€¦ it just, therea€™s nothing else you can say that would better it almost. Damian: I then asked Adrian what kind of cliches he uses with his team. Adrian: I know I fall into the traps when Ia€™m on the sideline or in the changing rooms before with mya€¦theya€™re amateur players but it still means as much to them as it does to Real Madrid, Man United players. You hear yourself saying the same things, you know, you get a bit of ribbing about it but, you know, half time a€¦ Damian: For example? Adrian: You know pre-match, youa€™re trying to wind them up, youa€™re trying to get them going, you know, a€˜therea€™s no place for losersa€™; you know, a€˜winning is an attitudea€™; a€˜when you cross the white linea€™, you know, a€˜you leave it all on the pitcha€™; I dona€™t want anyone coming off that pitch thinking they havena€™t a€˜given 100%a€™; a€˜110%,a€™ you know, Ia€™m no mathematician but I dona€™t think you can give 110% but I often ask my players to give me 110% and they very often do, you know. a€˜You only get out what you out ina€™; Or maybe you will have a go at them, I mean, I try not to swear at my players but occasionally you have to kind of gee them up a bit. You know, my grandmother can play better than that, you know, or words to that effect. Ita€™s stuff youa€™ve heard before. Quite often I dona€™t know if it makes an impact on the players or not, because, you know, theya€™ve heard it time and time again. But I think, if you pitch it right , you know, and you use ita€¦I think sometimes it comes from the heart you just say, you know, what you really mean and they get the message even if ita€™s in cliché form. But at the end of the game, great game, OK, didna€™t go well for us today, game of two halves is always a good one. It only takes a second to score a goal a€“ Brian Clough, yes. I mean, some of the managers they are better at it than others. Some of the managers actively avoid cliches but I dona€™t think theya€™re getting the message over any ...