Jonny Hurst

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 winning entry about Birmingham's local rivals Aston Villa. The chant, sung to the tune of Barry Manilow's Copacabana, refers to that club's star player, Juan [Pablo Ángel]. Some 1,500 people applied for the role.
A veteran of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Canal [Cafe Theatre] NewsRevue, Jonny Hurst is both a comedy writer and a lawyer.
He published his first book, 'Becoming a Lawyer', in July 2013.