Football Clichés

Adam Hurrey (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2014
Headline Book Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4722-2038-7 (ISBN)

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A wonderfully insightful and gloriously witty analysis of the language of football from the creator of footballcliches.com

'A must-have' - The Telegraph
'Book of the Week' - The Independent
'Hilarious' - Sport Magazine

In what other context do football fans use the words 'aplomb' or 'derisory'? Why don't we use 'rifle' as a verb on the other six days of the week? Why do aggrieved midfielders feel the instinctive need to make a giant ball-shaped gesture with both hands after a mistimed tackle is punished?

The more football Adam Hurrey watched, the more he began to spot the recurring mannerisms, behaviours, opinions and iconography that were mindlessly repeated in the football media.

Some cliches are ridiculous, some are quaintly outdated, some have survived through their sheer indisputability. Here, featuring gloriously pseudo-scientific diagrams and the inimitable writing style that made footballcliches.com a smash hit, they are covered in all their glory.

Adam Hurrey is a London-based football writer. He created the Football Clichés 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'.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.10.2014
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 206 mm
Gewicht	304 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
Themenwelt	Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball
ISBN-10	1-4722-2038-2 / 1472220382
ISBN-13	978-1-4722-2038-7 / 9781472220387
Zustand	Neuware