Editing Jonny Hurst (section)

{{short description|English chant laureate}}
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'''Jonny Hurst''' (born 11 June 1966<!-- ref has him aged 37 in May 2004 -->), originally from [[Solihull]], [[Birmingham]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/04/world/europe/the-poetry-of-gimme-an-a-gimme-an-s-gimme-a-t.html |title=The Poetry of 'Gimme an A! Gimme an S! Gimme a T!' |publisher=New York Times |date=4 December 2004 |accessdate=13 June 2021}}</ref> latterly [[Wanstead]], [[north London]], is England's first (and to date only) Chant Laureate.

[[Barclaycard]] set up the competition to choose a Chant Laureate, who would be paid £10,000 to tour [[Premier League|Premiership]] stadiums and compose [[football chant]]s for the 2004&ndash;5 football season. The judging panel was chaired by the [[Poet Laureate]], [[Andrew Motion]], who said "What we felt we were tapping into was a huge reservoir of folk poetry." Ironically, Hurst, a [[Birmingham City F.C.|Birmingham City]] fan, composed the winning entry about Birmingham's local rivals [[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]]. The chant, sung to the tune of [[Barry Manilow]]'s ''[[Copacabana (song)|Copacabana]]'', refers to that club's star player, [[Juan Pablo Ángel]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3702313.stm |title=Football's first Chant Laureate |publisher=BBC News |date=11 May 2004 |accessdate=13 November 2009}}</ref> Some 1,500 people applied for the role.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/may/11/books.arts |title=Bard of the Boots keeps singing the Blues |publisher=The Guardian |date=11 May 2004 |accessdate=13 June 2021}}</ref>

A veteran of the [[Edinburgh Festival Fringe]] and the [[Canal Cafe Theatre]] NewsRevue,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/04/world/europe/the-poetry-of-gimme-an-a-gimme-an-s-gimme-a-t.html |title=The Poetry of 'Gimme an A! Gimme an S! Gimme a T!' |publisher=New York Times |date=4 December 2004 |accessdate=13 June 2021}}</ref> Jonny Hurst is both a comedy writer and a lawyer.

He published his first book, 'Becoming a Lawyer', in July 2013.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Becoming-Lawyer-Law-Really-Career/dp/1445397269/ |title=Becoming a Lawyer: Is Law Really the Career for You?  |publisher=  BPP Learning Media |date=26 July 2013 |accessdate=13 June 2021}}</ref>