First came across his work for cricinfo/The Guardian as a cricket writer, then followed his blog. Excellent football writer as well - hits the mark with all of his articles and does some pretty innovative stuff like the retrospective live blog of the 1993 state of origin. There's something about his slightly sarcastic sense of humour that I really enjoy.
For all the bitching and moaning about the state of footy journalism, it goes to show that there is some very fine work out there. In particular, the piece below on gambling is a great article.
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/may/06/laddish-sports-betting-adverts-threat-comment
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/may/20/the-joy-of-six-gary-ablett-goals
The Guardian does seem to cover the footy quite well in terms of quality, if not the quantity of articles. Definitely an excess of faux euro snobs populating the reader comments section however.
For all the bitching and moaning about the state of footy journalism, it goes to show that there is some very fine work out there. In particular, the piece below on gambling is a great article.
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/may/06/laddish-sports-betting-adverts-threat-comment
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/may/20/the-joy-of-six-gary-ablett-goals
The Guardian does seem to cover the footy quite well in terms of quality, if not the quantity of articles. Definitely an excess of faux euro snobs populating the reader comments section however.
