Jonny Hurst
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Jonny Hurst
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Jonny Hurst, originally from Solihull, Birmingham, latterly Wanstead, north London, is England's first Chant Laureate. Barclaycard set up the competition to choose a Chant Laureate, who would be paid £10,000 to tour Premiership stadiums and compose football chants for the 2004–5 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 fan, composed the
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English chant laureate
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