Adam Hurrey

Adam Hurrey

Adam Hurrey is the author of Football Cliches, a study of the unique language of the game, and is the creator and host of the Football Cliches podcast. His second book — Extra Time Beckons, Penalties Loom: How to Use (and Abuse) The Language of Football — will be published in September 2024.

Adam Hurrey is the author of Football Cliches, a study of the unique language of the game, and is the creator and host of the Football Cliches podcast. His second book — Extra Time Beckons, Penalties Loom: How to Use (and Abuse) The Language of Football — will be published in September 2024.

How Jude Bellingham's overhead kick against Slovakia compares to England's iconic goals

How Jude Bellingham's overhead kick against Slovakia compares to England's iconic goals

Jude Bellingham's overhead kick rescued England at the Euros, the latest in a long line of iconic tournament goals for the men's team

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Imposing, effortless and unflappable: Who are the Premier League's true Rolls-Royces?

Imposing, effortless and unflappable: Who are the Premier League's true Rolls-Royces?

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Wengerball, Sarriball, Angeball, Xiscoball?! Understanding the [Manager]ball phenomenon

Wengerball, Sarriball, Angeball, Xiscoball?! Understanding the [Manager]ball phenomenon

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Marketing the dream: When Budweiser tried to take Wembley FC to FA Cup glory

Marketing the dream: When Budweiser tried to take Wembley FC to FA Cup glory

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It Is What It Is: Referee Peter Bankes, an expert in the art of the totting-up procedure

It Is What It Is: Referee Peter Bankes, an expert in the art of the totting-up procedure

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It Is What It Is: Who are the Premier League's most 'on the beach' team?

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Football's Room 101: Foul throws, anthem jackets and grown-up mascots

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Sealand: The national football team from a country half the size of a football pitch

Sealand: The national football team from a country half the size of a football pitch

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It Is What It Is: Finally, a definitive ranking of Premier League shirt typefaces, 1993-2024

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It Is What It Is: A forensic reverse-engineering of a classic 'generic football birthday card from your aunt'

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It Is What It Is: The campaign to ban all football analogies by politicians starts here

It Is What It Is: The campaign to ban all football analogies by politicians starts here

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It Is What It Is: The Premier League’s managerial shop window

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It Is What It Is: A taxonomy of Premier League technical-area body language

It Is What It Is: A taxonomy of Premier League technical-area body language

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It Is What It Is: In defence of sport's camera-phone consumers, the only authentic eyes left

It Is What It Is: In defence of sport's camera-phone consumers, the only authentic eyes left

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It Is What It Is: 'We're the 13,477th best team, the world has ever seen...'

It Is What It Is: 'We're the 13,477th best team, the world has ever seen...'

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It Is What It Is: But, no, seriously, Frank Lampard

It Is What It Is: But, no, seriously, Frank Lampard

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It Is What It Is: Panic buys are football heritage - no recruitment genius will ever take them away

It Is What It Is: Panic buys are football heritage - no recruitment genius will ever take them away

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It Is What It Is: Footballspeak reaches space, the Zaha Limbo and how to "tear it up"

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Football Quiz of 2022: World Cup, 30 years of PL, spot the scorer and oddities

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Ranking all 83 goals ever scored in the World Cup final

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The all-time World Cup XI challenge: Featuring Maradona, Cruyff and Maldini

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The 20-year plateau of the FIFA World Cup™ aesthetic (or why World Cups all now look the same)

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England's 100 World Cup goals: Our writers name their favourites

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Saudi Arabia humble Argentina - but was it the greatest World Cup shock ever?

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