Extra Time Beckons, Penalties Loom
How to Use (and Abuse) The Language of Football: Shortlisted for Football Book of the Year at the Sports Book Awards 2025
$37.60
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
29 December 2025
Summary
SHORTLISTED FOR FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2025
LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
A New Statesman Book of the Year
A Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year
*“A hilarious examination of the football commentary language we all understand but don’t know why” WHSBOTY 2024 Reading Panel
The long-awaited fol…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035408382 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035408384 |
| Author: | Adam Hurrey |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Headline Book Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 29 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 172g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Football Cliches series |
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Critics Review
Analyses the language of football to the point of absurdity … Like the podcast, the jokes never run out. A joy. * The Sunday Times Sports Books of the Year *Anyone with a taste for verbal and cultural analysis - an interest in football may help - should be grateful for the elucidating impudence of Adam Hurrey, who has turned his podcast Football Cliches into a breezy book Extra Time Beckons, Penalties Loom. * Leo Robson, New Statesman Books of the Year *Adam Hurrey is the best observer of football culture in the world. He has a knack for either encapsulating something that’s always nagged at you or nailing something you can’t believe you haven’t noticed before. * Elis James *Football Clichés was already the funniest, smartest football podcast, and now it is the funniest, smartest book on the language of football. It sends out a message, silences the doubters and lets its football do the talking. It is what it is, and what it is, is a Rolls-Royce of a book. * David Goldblatt *So enjoyable … fascinating and deliciously nerdy. * FourFourTwo *
About The Author
Adam Hurrey
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 Guardian and the Telegraph, among others. He also had trials for Swindon Town as a youngster, but was genuinely rejected for being ‘too small’.
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