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FWA Q&A: PAUL McCARTHY
FWA Q&A: PAUL McCARTHY
Have you ever worked in a profession other than football?
I worked in several bars during a spell living in California, but jacked the last one in when about the 20th customer that night asked me what part of Australia I was from.
Tags: barcelona, Brazil, Daily Express, Football Writers' Association, journalism
FWA Interview: Graham Hunter
BARCELONA PLAYERS SEE SPEAKING TO THE PRESS AS PART OF THEIR DUTY says award-winning football writer Graham HunterBy CHRISTOPHER DAVIES
IT WAS the proudest moment of Graham Hunter’s career as Glenn Moore, chairman of the Football Writers’ Association’s books committee, announced that his ‘Barca: The Making Of The Greatest Team In The World’ had been chosen as the football book of the year at the British Sports Book Awards 2013.
Tags: awards, barcelona, book club, graham hunter, sports book awards
FWA Q&A: RAPHAEL HONIGSTEIN
RAPHAEL HONIGSTEIN on being tipped by old ladies...problems with the Gents in Munich...and a cell in IstanbulHave you ever worked in a profession other than football?
I used to write about music and fashion before. I met and interviewed a few cool people, but the overriding memory from those days is a 10-hour wait in a New York recording studio while Timbaland was having his hair cut. At school, I used to pack bags at Munich's premier delicatessen store - Käfer. It was very badly paid, about 5DM an hour, but old ladies would sometimes tip nicely.
Tags: barcelona, FWA Q&A, Guillem Balague, Istanbul, Martin Tyler, Olympic Stadium Munich, Raphael Honigstein, San Siro
FWA Q&A: MARK GLEESON
MARK GLEESON on a free Camel in the press box...a rat-infested room in Brazzaville...and some Hot Chilli Peppers in the barHave you ever worked in a profession other than football?
I started my journalistic career covering the courts, schools fetes and the ladies society’s tea parties but thankfully that did not last long. I got a chance to cover football very early on in my career, first as a substitute and quickly thereafter full-time.
Tags: 1986 World Cup, Apartheid, barcelona, Cape Town, Delia Fischer, Gary Bailey, Jomo Cosmos, lionel messi, Mabhida Stadium, Maradona, Mark Gleeson, Peter Drury, Robert Kitson, Soccer City, South Africa, Super Bowl
FWA Q&A: TONY HUDD
TONY HUDD on a phantom goal...being mistaken for a murder suspect...and being kept awake by the gold medal winner of horizontal jogging...Have you ever worked in a profession other than football?
No. After cutting my journalistic teeth at a sports agency, I was taken on by the Worthing Herald. On completing my indentures, I moved to the sports desk. Among the clubs I covered was Lancing whose player-manager was Mike Smith, a teacher at Brighton Grammar School. He later managed the Wales national team and Hull City. He taught me so much about the game. I owe him an ...
Tags: barcelona, Bernabeu, Charlton, fish and chips, Football Manager, Gillingham, Grimsby, Kenilworth Road, manchester city, Patrick Collins, Sunderland, The Masters Augusta, tony hudd, Tony Pulis, Worthing Herald, Zinedine Zidane
FWA Q&A: IAN HAWKEY
IAN HAWKEY on covering Ba#celona...the singing nuns of Ougadougou...and don’t mention the WaughHave you ever worked in a profession other than football?
Some temporary shop jobs with unsightly uniforms and a stint as a painter-and-decorator, but otherwise worked only as a journalist, in various capacities, but mainly sports reporting.
Tags: AC Milan, barcelona, cricket, Fulham, Juventus, lionel messi, Malcolm Macdonald, Manchester United, Mark Waugh, Real Madrid, Rome, Roy Hodgson, Saint Etienne, San Mames, Sardines, Zidane
FWA Q&A: CHRIS BASCOMBE
CHRIS BASCOMBE of the Daily Telegraph on having to praise Hamilton Ricard...digital incest...and a Royle banHave you ever worked in a profession other than football?
I worked in a pub in the Old Swan area of Liverpool. If the acts booked for the evening’s entertainment didn't end their set with 'The Best' by Tina Turner there was a riot. Used to be quite tricky for the Irish Revolutionary Ceilidh bands to learn the words.
Tags: barcelona, Brendan Rodgers, Chris Bascombe, Clive Tyldesley, Emile Heskey, Everton, Hamilton Ricard, Istanbul, Joe Royle, lionel messi, liverpool, Millennium Stadium, Phil McNulty, Thierry Henry, Twitter, Wimbledon
A WORKAHOLIC BESET BY A SENSE OF NEVER BEING QUITE GOOD ENOUGH
Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona were the greatest team many have ever seen, but Guillem Balagué reveals in his new book the former Barca coach is a workaholic beset by a sense of never being quite good enough.By CHRISTOPHER DAVIES
THE SPECULATION will intensify as the season progresses, there will be exclusives about his next destination with “sources” confirming it will be Chelsea, Manchester City, Inter Milan or whoever, but right now even Pep Guardiola does not know where he will be working next season.
Tags: barcelona, Catalan, Cruyff, Expectations, Frank Rijkaard, Guillem Balague, Manchester United, Messi, Nou Camp, pep guardiola, Real Madrid, Spain
WHEN THIERRY BECAME HENRY
PHILIPPE AUCLAIR thinks Thierry Henry has a right to be considered France’s greatest footballer but in a ‘love letter’ he explains the character of the player changed...By CHRISTOPHER DAVIES
IT IS sad that a player who gave Arsenal, English and French football such joy, so many moments of incredible skill, scoring breathtaking goals after a 60-yard lung-bursting run should be remembered as much for a handball (pedants will argue two handballs) as the pleasure he served up.
Tags: Arsenal, barcelona, Cantona, France, Messi, philippe auclair, robert pires, Ronaldo, Thierry Henry, world cup, Zidane
FWA Q&A: RORY SMITH
RORY SMITH of The Times on being mistaken for a drugs trafficker in Chile...why Ian Herbert grew a beard in 17 minutes...and Joycey’s two-foot long loafHave you ever worked in a profession other than journalism?
Regulars at several pubs in west Yorkshire will bear witness to the fact that I’m a better barman than a journalist. I was a Christmas card salesman for a while, too – in an office, not door-to-door, like some sort of festive tinker – but the best job I ever had was with a landscape gardener. My boss was a raging alcoholic. We’d do ...
Tags: Arsenal, barcelona, Benitez, Burnley, Colchester, Donetsk, Henry Winter, Ian Dennis, liverpool, manchester city, Matt Lawton, Stadium of Light, Steven Gerrard
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