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DARRAGH’S DREAM IS THE PERFECT FOOTBALL MAGAZINE
By CHRISTOPHER DAVIESDARRAGH MacAnthony loves football, so much that in 2007 he bought Peterborough United. Last year the Dubliner published a book about this called From Hobby To Obsession. Last week saw the first edition of Twentyfour7 Football, a monthly football magazine – chairman: Darragh MacAnthony.
Tags: Barry Silkman, Charlotte Jackson, Darragh MacAnthony, FourFourTwo, Hayley McQueen, magazine, Neil Gilby, oliver holt, oliver kay, Sky Sports, talkSPORT, Twentyfour7 Football, World Soccer
“IT WAS A MIX OF ANGER, DEFIANCE AND CONFRONTATION” – Daniel Taylor of the Guardian
footballwriters.co.uk looks at the media coverage of Arsene Wenger’s most amazing press conferenceBy CHRISTOPHER DAVIES
TWO THINGS took the assembled football writers attending Arsene Wenger’s press conference on the eve of Arsenal’s Champions League tie against Bayern Munich by surprise. Firstly, that a manager known for being so helpful to the media suddenly turned on the French equivalent of the hair-dryer and secondly, that a story about him being offered a new two-year deal upset him so much.
Tags: Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, Bayern Munich, Champions League, David McDonnell, Henry Winter, John Cross, jokes, Neil Ashton, oliver kay, press conference, Sam Wallace, Simon Yeend, Steven Howard, talkSPORT
FWA Q&A: Oliver Kay
Oliver Kay of the Times on a garlic bread factory, a nightmare in Naples and a load of rubbish in Braga...Your first ever newspaper?
The first to employ me full-time was the Nottingham Evening Post, which I joined as a trainee sports reporter, but I’d done a lot of work experience before that, starting on the Crewe/Nantwich Chronicle and then spending several months on the Evening Sentinel in Stoke. I learned a lot at the Sentinel, including that one of the few ways to stop the press – literally – is to put a foil-wrapped pasty in a microwave ...
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