Tag Archives: Guillem Balague
Football Book of the Year shortlist announced
The shortlist for the Football Book of the Year has been announced with former winner James Montague among the six contenders for this year’s top prize in the 16th Sports Book Awards.
His probe into football’s super rich owners — The Billionaires Club — contrasts sharply with Tom van Hulsen’s book — Game Changers — on Dutchmen Arnold Muhren and Frans Thijssen, who were the outstanding stars of Bobby Robson’s Ipswich Town team three decades ago.
Tags: Bob Paisley, Bob Paisly, Football Book of the Year, Guillem Balague, Ian Herbert, Ipswich Town, James Montague, Liverpool FC, Manchester United, Mauricio Pochettino, mike collett, Owen Amos, patrick barclay, Shortlist, Sir Matt Busby, Tom van Hulsen
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
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
FWA Q&A: Guillem Balague
Sky Sports’ Spanish football expert and Espanyol fan Guillem Balague on drinking 120-year-old brandy, a frozen Scottish breakfast and an on-air attempted mugging.Your first ever newspaper?
It was Diari de Barcelona, a Catalan newspaper. I think it’s the oldest newspaper in Spain.
Tags: FWA Q&A, Guillem Balague, Sky Sports
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