Adam Hurrey

In a 5,500-capacity arena in western France, the world’s greatest players put their hearts and souls into competing for table-top glory

Welcome to the latest instalment of It Is What It Is, the sister column to Adam Hurrey’s , a parallel mission into the heart of the tiny things in football you never thought really mattered… until you were offered a closer look. The , if all 20 clubs’ badges fought each other This week, a message arrived from a Will Cunningham, which read: “Thought you might appreciate: the Premier League table if the emblems of the teams fought each other over a season. Work is very slow at the moment…” Before…

Welcome to the latest instalment of It Is What It Is, the sister column to Adam Hurrey’s , a parallel mission into the heart of the tiny things in football you never thought really mattered… until you were offered a closer look. 7,000 km, 16 amateurs and one commentator: the brief story of San Marino 0-0 Seychelles Everyone remembers where they were on March 14, 2002. The dust was settling on the most perfect, Hapoel Tel Aviv threatened an almighty shock by beating 1-0 in the first leg of their…

We should cherish our memories of these tournaments - but that’s much harder now they all look exactly the same...

From Hurst’s clincher to Alberto’s blast and Gotze’s volley... Adam Hurrey assesses every goal ever scored in football’s biggest game

Every type of panic signing ranked by panic, the standard “six of one...” football scenario and a growing FA Cup mini-crisis

In this week’s Football Clichés column: classifying Premier League managers by their mannerisms and a brief history of referee facial hair

All it took to solve one reader’s birthday head-scratcher were several hours, £13, and 15 simultaneous Google Chrome tabs...

On January 28, 2004, deep under the radar, a very modern football convention was born. signed 20-year-old winger Jose Antonio Reyes from Spanish side and, later that day, blogger Chris Michaels reflected the excitement of the club’s fanbase on a website called Arsenal Mania: They already had reason to fear us, but now they have reason to fear that stopping the fluid movement of what a lot of us at Arsenal Mania like to call Wengerball just got a whole lot harder. The early lineage of the [Manag…

Metaphors: fun, but they can cost you. On August 23, after a seemingly relentless social media marketing campaign in which shouting/cooking ace Gordon Ramsay trumpeted the “Rolls-Royce of pans”, premium cookware manufacturers HexClad were hit with a lawsuit by… Rolls-Royce. Ramsay — who is not a defendant in the trademark case in federal court in the U.S. state of New Jersey — is no stranger to some frivolous Rolls-Roycing: at some point on his many TV shows, he has dubbed the fillet as “the Rol…