Extra Time Beckons, Penalties Loom: How to Use (and Abuse) The Language of Football
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Extra Time Beckons, Penalties Loom: How to Use (and Abuse) The Language of Football
By (Author) Adam Hurrey
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Book Publishing
11th February 2025
26th September 2024
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Sports teams and clubs
Sociology: sport and leisure
Humour
796.334
Physical Properties
Hardback
240
Width 156mm, Height 236mm, Spine 26mm
426g
Description
The long-awaited follow-up to Football Cliches, Adam Hurrey's cult classic about the language of football.
Does language evolve Yes, it does.Will it ever be acceptable for a football commentator to call a shot that bounces before it goes in 'a screamer' No, it will not.As the self-appointed world expert on the subject, Adam Hurrey sets off to define the definitive rules of the language of football.He will answer the big questions such as: is it acceptable to say a player is 'breaking their silence' (it's complicated), can headers can be 'lashed' (anatomically impossible), whether a penalty shootout could ever be described as 'late drama' (truly abhorrent), how many games constitute a 'bumper' day of Premier League action (minimum of eight) and just how big a deficit constitutes 'a mountain to climb' (certainly not Liverpool going 1-0 down at home to Wolves in the third minute, Sky Sports).Along the way, Hurrey examines some case studies of how the football media has reached saturation point - the transfer rumour mill, the futile art of big-match previewing, the rise of (and backlash against) football jargon - and how its language has evolved to keep the machine going. Have we let the football lexicon spiral out of control In finding out, this book will be exactly as gloriously pedantic as it sounds.Author Bio
Adam Hurrey is a London-based football writer. He created the Football Cliches blog in 2007 while working as a TV listings editor and has since contributed articles about the unique language of football to the websites of the Guardian and the Telegraph, among others. He also had trials for Swindon Town as a youngster, but was genuinely rejected for being 'too small'.
