Adam Hurrey
{{short description|British journalist and author}}
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Adam Hurrey (born 1983) is a London-based British journalist, author, and podcaster.
Biography
Hurrey is the author of the book Football Clichés released in 2014. It was named book of the week in The Independent,{{Cite web |date=18 October 2014 |title=Book of the week: Football Clichés by Adam Hurrey |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/book-of-the-week-football-clich-s-by-adam-hurrey-9804208.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012014455/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/book-of-the-week-football-clich-s-by-adam-hurrey-9804208.html |archive-date=12 October 2018 |access-date=7 December 2018 |website=The Independent}} and in The Daily Telegraph was described as the spiritual heir to fanzines and the gleeful radio shows of Danny Baker and Danny Kelly.{{Cite web |last=Tyers |first=Alan |date=29 October 2014 |title=Adam Hurrey's Football Cliches is spiritual heir to best fanzines, Danny Baker and Danny Kelly's shows |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/11191212/Adam-Hurreys-Football-Cliches-is-spiritual-heir-to-best-fanzines-Danny-Baker-and-Danny-Kellys-shows.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012014451/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/11191212/Adam-Hurreys-Football-Cliches-is-spiritual-heir-to-best-fanzines-Danny-Baker-and-Danny-Kellys-shows.html |archive-date=12 October 2018 |access-date=11 October 2018 |via=www.telegraph.co.uk}} An excerpt of the book appeared in The Guardian.{{Cite web |title=Adam Hurrey |url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/adam-hurrey |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012014616/https://www.theguardian.com/profile/adam-hurrey |archive-date=12 October 2018 |access-date=11 October 2018 |website=the Guardian}}
Hurrey created the "Football Clichés" blog in 2007 while working as a TV listings editor.{{Cite web |title=Adam Hurrey |url=http://www.headline.co.uk/HeadlinePublishing/authors/detail.page?id=g7bJLJvMBqISwZqibiWM9EEw3p/ISOW2gMvSOic-3JEvp/inynoj6FSY |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181209214028/https://www.headline.co.uk/HeadlinePublishing/authors/detail.page?id=g7bJLJvMBqISwZqibiWM9EEw3p%2FISOW2gMvSOic-3JEvp%2Finynoj6FSY |archive-date=9 December 2018 |access-date=8 June 2020 |via=www.headline.co.uk}} He has since written for Eurosport,{{Cite web |title=Eurosport |url=https://www.eurosport.com/adam-hurrey_aut1905/author.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012020028/https://www.eurosport.com/adam-hurrey_aut1905/author.shtml |archive-date=12 October 2018 |access-date=11 October 2018 |website=Eurosport}} ESPN,{{Cite web |date=4 January 2018 |title=Why Morata is losing the one-on-one battle |url=http://africa.espn.com/soccer/english-premier-league/23/blog/post/3335671/why-chelseas-alvaro-morata-is-losing-the-mental-battle-in-one-on-one-situations |website=ESPN.com}} The Daily Mirror,{{Cite web |last=Hurrey |first=Adam |date=16 August 2013 |title=Your football clichés guide to the new season: From mind games to second season syndrome and X-rated tackles |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/your-z-football-clichs-2174914 |website=mirror}} the BBC,{{Cite web |last=Hurrey |first=Adam |date=8 April 2018 |title=Paul Pogba's weekend: A drama in three acts |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/54c196f6-1654-4551-9f2e-7e20fe396570 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180412074106/http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/54c196f6-1654-4551-9f2e-7e20fe396570 |archive-date=12 April 2018 |access-date=11 October 2018 |website=BBC Three}}{{Cite web |last=Hurrey |first=Adam |date=30 April 2018 |title=So it seems Sir Alex, Mourinho and Wenger are now best buds |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/6a624d6e-4b09-43d8-aaf4-e4906c73fe96 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181110011755/https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/6a624d6e-4b09-43d8-aaf4-e4906c73fe96 |archive-date=10 November 2018 |access-date=11 October 2018 |website=BBC Three}} The Daily Telegraph,{{Cite web |title=Adam Hurrey |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/adam-hurrey/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012014610/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/adam-hurrey/ |archive-date=12 October 2018 |access-date=11 October 2018 |website=www.telegraph.co.uk}} and The Set Pieces.{{Cite web |last=Hurrey |first=Adam |title=Adam Hurrey, Author at The Set Pieces |url=https://thesetpieces.com/author/adam-hurrey/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017042943/https://thesetpieces.com/author/adam-hurrey/ |archive-date=17 October 2018 |access-date=16 October 2018}}
Hurrey has appeared as a football pundit on The Totally Football Show.{{Cite web |title=The Soft Middle And The Flabby Bottom The Totally Football Show With James Richardson podcast |url=https://player.fm/series/the-totally-football-show-with-james-richardson/the-soft-middle-and-the-flabby-bottom |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728171026/https://player.fm/series/the-totally-football-show-with-james-richardson/the-soft-middle-and-the-flabby-bottom |archive-date=28 July 2018 |access-date=11 October 2018 |website=player.fm}}{{Cite web |title=The Totally Football Show with James Richardson by Muddy Knees Media on Apple Podcasts |url=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-totally-football-show-with-james-richardson/id1267958765?mt=2 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011223120/https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-totally-football-show-with-james-richardson/id1267958765?mt=2 |archive-date=11 October 2018 |access-date=11 October 2018 |website=Apple Podcasts}} Hurrey has been interviewed about football clichés on BBC Radio 4,{{Cite web |title=Word of Mouth, Are we all speaking football? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b095rrzx |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181110151233/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b095rrzx |archive-date=10 November 2018 |access-date=11 October 2018 |website=BBC}} for TheJournal.ie in Ireland,{{Cite web |date=3 November 2013 |title=At the end of the day, this is LITERALLY the best interview you'll ever read |url=https://www.the42.ie/football-cliches-adam-hurrey-interview-1153915-Nov2013/?amp=1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505075448/http://www.the42.ie/football-cliches-adam-hurrey-interview-1153915-Nov2013/?amp=1 |archive-date=5 May 2016 |access-date=7 December 2018 |website=www.the42.ie}} and with the Total Soccer Show in America.{{Cite web |title=InterWiki with Adam Hurrey of Football Cliches |url=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/totalsoccershow/2014/11/06/interwiki-with-adam-hurrey-of-football-cliches-42 |website=BlogTalkRadio|date=6 November 2014 }} When asked by FourFourTwo, Hurrey nominated He Always Puts It to the Right: A History Of The Penalty Kick by Clark Miller (1998) as his favourite ever football book.{{Cite web |date=26 November 2016 |title=FourFourTwo's Best Football Books Ever: The Writers' Choices |url=https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/fourfourtwos-best-football-books-ever-writers-choices |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180502000344/https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/fourfourtwos-best-football-books-ever-writers-choices |archive-date=2 May 2018 |access-date=11 October 2018 |website=FourFourTwo}}
On 31 October 2018, it was announced that Football Cliches was nominated in the online media of the year category at the 2018 Football Supporters Federation Awards.{{Cite web |date=31 October 2018 |title=FSF Awards 2018 shortlists announced – Football Supporters' Federation |url=http://www.fsf.org.uk/latest-news/view/fsf-awards-2018-shortlists-announced |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181101015648/http://www.fsf.org.uk/latest-news/view/fsf-awards-2018-shortlists-announced |archive-date=1 November 2018 |access-date=31 October 2018 |website=www.fsf.org.uk}}
In 2024, he authored the book Extra Time Beckons, Penalties Loom: How to Use (and Abuse) The Language of Football. In October 2024, it was long listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year.{{cite web|url= https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-decline-of-football-speak/|website=The Spectator|accessdate=4 October 2024|first= Philip |last=Patrick|title=The decline of football speak|date=19 August 2024}}{{cite web|url= https://news.williamhill.com/sport/sports-book-of-the-year/william-hill-sports-book-of-the-year-2024-october-newsletter/?amp|website=Williamhill.com|accessdate=4 October 2024|title= WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024: OCTOBER NEWSLETTER|date=3 October 2024}}
Football Cliches podcast
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Following a move to The Athletic, Hurrey began presenting his own podcast series on Football Cliches in 2020 with guests such as Jack Pitt Brooke, Zonal Marking's Michael Cox, Elis James, Kelly Cates, Keir Starmer,{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Charles |date=15 January 2022 |title=Kier Starmer praises Spurs' 'fantastic' new stadium |url=https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2022/01/15/actually-arsenal-mad-kier-starmer-has-made-a-claim-about-tottenhams-stadium/ |url-status=dead |access-date=9 January 2023 |website=HITC |language=en-GB |archive-date=5 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230105140055/https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2022/01/15/actually-arsenal-mad-kier-starmer-has-made-a-claim-about-tottenhams-stadium/ }} Jamie Carragher, Nick Miller, James Maw, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. Since the start of the 2021–22 Premier League season, the cast for the majority of episodes has been Hurrey, Eccleshare and Walker. Football Cliches was shortlisted for the Podcast of the Year at the Football Supporters' Association awards in 2020, 2021 and 2023.{{cite web|url=https://thefsa.org.uk/news/fsa-awards-2023-vote-now/|website=thefsa.org|accessdate=3 November 2023|title= FSA Awards 2023: Vote now!|date=3 November 2023}}{{Cite web |date=12 February 2021 |title=Vote now: FSA Awards shortlists announced |url=https://thefsa.org.uk/news/vote-now-fsa-awards-shortlists-announced/}}{{Cite web |date=2 November 2021 |title=FSA Awards 2021 shortlists announced |url=https://thefsa.org.uk/news/fsa-awards-2021-shortlists-announced/}} In 2022, Football Cliches was nominated in the Sports Podcast Awards ‘Best Sports Comedy’ category.{{Cite web |title=Sports Podcast Awards |url=https://www.sportspodcastawards.com/categories/15/my-vote}}
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