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May 2nd, 2013
Relegation. Promotion. The Playoffs. European Qualification. Yes, it's that time of the season again. Today on the blog Adam Hurrey aka Football Cliches takes us through the cliché minefield that is the business end of the season.
A consensus doesn't seem to have been reached on when the The Business End of the season begins. It is around mid-March, perhaps, when the early pacesetters and surprise packages have finally fallen away, that thoughts begin to turn to the campaign's climax. ...
Mar 28th, 2013
The sacking of a football manager is hardly a rare occurrence in modern football. Today on the blog Football Cliches walks us through the process and tells us how to sack a manager.
You can't help but wonder what life is like on the Managerial Merry-Go-Round. Within days of being sacked, managers develop a strange skin condition that leaves them "itching to get back into the game". They start throwing hats into rings. Some, like Gerry Francis, even forget to update their hairstyle.
The peren...
Feb 18th, 2013
How can you have a long and successful career as a player or manager in the Premier League? Today on the blog Football Cliches delivers the definitive guide of how to climb your way to the top in no time at all.
In the modern age of record TV money, transfer war chests and having six games to save their job, managers (and their chairmen) are still throwing hopeful cash down the wishing well of mediocrity. The last two decades or so of the bloated football bubble (which has either burst, is ab...
Jan 17th, 2013
Today on the blog Football Cliches offers his unique perspective on the place of referees in our collective football psychology.
It's reared its ugly head again, everyone. The largely football-less skirmish between Arsenal and Manchester City resulted in the usual Sunday afternoon talking point of referees. The game (or, to be accurate here, the "spectacle") was effectively ended by Laurent Koscielny's early red card, after which it congealed into one big, 80-minute ironic cheer.
It's absolu...
Dec 26th, 2012
It's been a busy 2012 for football fans, pundits and players alike. Spain rule Europe. Messi rules the record books. Man City pinch the Premier League title at the death. Today on the blog Adam Hurry dissects the last 12 months in all its clichéd glory.
Thanks to Lionel Messi's goalscoring exploits, football has finally embraced the concept of the calendar year about 400 years after Pope Gregory XIII. As a keen follower of football's trends, therefore, I feel legitimised in bringing yo...
Nov 15th, 2012
Thinking about planning a Scandinavian football weekend? Returning from a weekend in the Danish capital, today on the blog Adam Hurrey of
Football Cliches shares his thoughts as FC Copenhagen makes 4-0 mess of league rivals Aalborg.
Copenhagen is an immaculate city, from its angular architecture to the unnervingly consistent conveyor belt of blonde women on bicycles. It's also palpably aware of its own impressiveness - Copenhageners have a contented air about them that Londoners could onl...
Oct 19th, 2012
Re-heated controversy keeps the football media cycle spinning. Today on the blog Adam Hurrey from Football Cliches sets his focus on the fatiguing phenomenom of predictable outrage in the modern era of football media and fanhood.
Football is boring.
The actual football, that is. What keeps the billion-pound TV deals rolling in, though, is controversy. Outrage. "Unedifying scenes". All the things that "you", sitting in "the pub", talk about with "your mates" after "the big game". But football...
Sep 14th, 2012
With Word Cup 2014 qualification underway, today on the Blog Adam Hurrey from Football Cliches takes a look at the path ahead for the English team on the road to Rio.
The collective eye-rolling that greeted the two-week break from domestic matters and the start of World Cup qualifying (or the Road to Rio™, if you must) suggested little appetite for England's fixtures against Moldova and Ukraine. Roy Hodgson's meagre pool of talent, understandably, finds it difficult to snare the ima...
Aug 16th, 2012
Through a myriad of distractions, the 2012-2013 football season has finally arrived. Today on the blog Adam Hurrey looks at a close-season full of cliches.
So when does it all end?
May.
And what happens then, in the summer?
Nothing, it's boring, you just sit in the park and wait for the fixture list to come out.
Thanks to the widespread epidemic of Olympic fever, the football close-season has been mercifully overshadowed. Any protracted transfer sagas have been bumped from...
Jul 3rd, 2012
As Euro 2012 comes to a close, today on the blog our tournament correspondent Adam Hurrey delivers his awards for the best of this year's tournament in Poland and the Ukraine.
Best Player of Euro 2012: Andres Iniesta
It's hard to argue with UEFA's decision to mark Iniesta's contribution to Spain's historic title triumph. Amidst the absurd backlash towards Spain's style of play, he always seems to produce a positive, forward-thinking touch or pass. Arguably more important to Spain as a pote...
Jul 1st, 2012
With the Euro 2012 Final just hours away, our Euro 2012 correspondent Adam Hurrey tells us where tonight's final between Spain and Italy will be won and lost.
Reigning champions Spain take on Italy in the final in Kiev tonight, in an intriguing clash of styles. We take a look at the key match-ups that will decide the destination of the Henri Delaunay trophy.
Iker Casillas v Gianluigi Buffon
More than just a coin-toss here. The two captains exude confidence and assurance to their respectiv...
Jul 1st, 2012
As we wait for Spain and Italy to face off in the Final of Euro 2012, today on the blog our Euro correspondent Adam Hurrey shares his thoughts on the exapnsion to 24 teams for Euro 2016.
This is the last time you will see Europe’s best sixteen nations compete. From 2016, held in France, the European Championship will have a field of 24 national teams.
The motivation for the change is clear and indisputable – money. UEFA’s approach to revenue generation is not a new bug-be...
Jun 30th, 2012
With the participants for the final of Euro 2012 confirmed, our Euro 2012 correspondent Adam Hurrey gives us his thoughts on Italy's surprise semifinal win over Germany.
Italy will meet Spain in the final of Euro 2012 in Kiev on Sunday, after a stunning win against much-fancied Germany here in Warsaw last night.
German fans descended on the city yesterday in search of tickets, and the atmosphere in the National Stadium before kick-off was one of eager expectation. Fans of both sides were d...
Jun 28th, 2012
The 1st Semi Final at Euro 2012 came down to penalties as Spain advance to Sunday's Final while a brave Portugal head home. As we prepare for tonight's 2nd Semi Final, our Euro 2012 blog correspondent Adam Hurrey reports.
Cesc Fabregas fired home the decisive penalty in Donetsk last night, propelling Spain into a third consecutive major-tournament final, and seeing off a hugely spirited Portugal.
Fabregas implored coach Vicente del Bosque to allow him the fifth penalty, claiming he’d...
Jun 27th, 2012
Euro 2012 reaches the pointy end of the tournament as Portugal meets Spain in tonight's 1st Semi-Final. On the blog today our Euro 2012 correspondent Adam Hurrey delivers his preview.
November 2010. The Estadio da Luz rocks as the Portuguese stun the world champions with a thumping 4-0 win, with Ronaldo denied a virtuoso goal by an absent-minded moment from an offside Nani. A livid Ronaldo fumed, despite the scoreline.
Tonight in Donestk, Ronaldo continues the quest for his defining moment...
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