Extra Time Beckons, Penalties Loom -How to use (and abuse) the language of football, by Adam Hurrey, published by Headline, Price: £20

TEN years after producing his amusing ‘Football Cliches’ book, Adam Hurrey returns with another witty and insightful book about the language of football.
Hurrey, tongue-in-cheek, answers the big questions such as: “Is it acceptable to say a player is ‘breaking their silence’ (it’s complicated), can headers be ‘lashed’ (anatomically impossible), whether a penalty shoot-out could ever be descr...