Extra Time Beckons, Penalties Loom

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 *

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’.