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Adam Hurrey

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Writer & editor @TheAthleticFC | Creator & host of the 𝗙𝗢𝗢𝗧𝗕𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗦 podcast, for my sins: podfollow.com/new-football-cliches
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The Beach Ball Game, but not Battle of the Bridge: What makes a match worthy of Wikipedia?

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By Adam Hurrey Verified
| Breaking One
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The Beach Ball Game, but not Battle of the Bridge: What makes a match worthy of Wikipedia?

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By Adam Hurrey Verified
| The Athletic Verified
A question for you: what do the uniquely footballing concepts of the prawn sandwich brigade, Mickey Mouse cups, the multiball system, Kerlon’s seal dribble, the school-playground emergency option of “rush goalie”, Liverpool’s “Spice Boys” squad of the mid-1990s and the increasingly dated act of “doing a Leeds” all have in common? Well, as you’ve already figured out, they have all been exhaustively documented and explained on Wikipedia.
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The Opta-stat-packification of football: Why are the game’s milestones getting weirder?

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By Adam Hurrey Verified
| The Athletic Verified
Back in October, after a 2-0 home win for Manchester United over Sunderland heralded one of the final false micro-dawns of the Ruben Amorim era, a beautifully benign piece of information was posted on X, which read: Ruben Amorim becomes the first Manchester United manager since Sir Alex Ferguson to win his 50th game at the club. It had all the cadence and vocabulary of a modern-day football stat and, at first glance, looked like it could be a reasonable milestone.
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