Spot on, Olly. I read a lot and am interested in football generally as well as Norwich. I love to read about behind the scenes stuff at football clubs, perhaps because of a particular incident or player and I love a sporting autobiography too. Brian Clough’s is particularly good “Gary Megson, nice lad but couldn’t trap a bag of sand...”
I’ve read a couple of Athletic articles and also Bailey’s first one that he has attached a link to, below.
The Athletic also covers Boxing and Motorsports, amongst all the USA sport and that piqued my interest as well.
I’ve decided to take the plunge and at £2.49 a month it’s the price of a fancy coffee. You also get a month free. I’ll try it for the year and see before renewing but even at £5.00 a month, it’s not much more than a magazine.
I’ve since read two articles this morning, one on Stuart Webber and another on Solskjaer trying to turn it around at United and both were absolutely brilliant, thoroughly enjoyed them, with the Webber one (written by a Simon Hughes, I think) actually told me a lot of stuff I didn’t know.
Like how he flew to Madrid to sign Buendia and conversed with him in Spanish(!), convincing Emi that Norwich was the place for him in a hotel room at 1am.
Also that the high press we were able to operate last season wouldn’t have worked if we’d kept Maddison and Murphy. Farke and Webber felt that pressing wasn’t a strong strength of Madders and that Murphy didn’t always know when and where to run.
He did the Buendia deal when he was selling Pritchard and assured DF that he had a better replacement for both Pritch and Madders in the pipeline, although he wasn’t sure DF believed him.
It seems that The Athletic have hoovered up Britain’s best sports journos and often doubles their salaries. I read an online article suggesting that one regional chap (not Michael Bailey) had been on £37k and they doubled it to get him to leave. This has left a lot of local papers struggling to get quality replacements as they just can’t compete.
Might be your thing, might not but I figure it’s going to better for me to read this sort of quality when I’m say, waiting for my lad while he’s footy training than to just surf mindless stuff on my phone...
I’ve read a couple of Athletic articles and also Bailey’s first one that he has attached a link to, below.
The Athletic also covers Boxing and Motorsports, amongst all the USA sport and that piqued my interest as well.
I’ve decided to take the plunge and at £2.49 a month it’s the price of a fancy coffee. You also get a month free. I’ll try it for the year and see before renewing but even at £5.00 a month, it’s not much more than a magazine.
I’ve since read two articles this morning, one on Stuart Webber and another on Solskjaer trying to turn it around at United and both were absolutely brilliant, thoroughly enjoyed them, with the Webber one (written by a Simon Hughes, I think) actually told me a lot of stuff I didn’t know.
Like how he flew to Madrid to sign Buendia and conversed with him in Spanish(!), convincing Emi that Norwich was the place for him in a hotel room at 1am.
Also that the high press we were able to operate last season wouldn’t have worked if we’d kept Maddison and Murphy. Farke and Webber felt that pressing wasn’t a strong strength of Madders and that Murphy didn’t always know when and where to run.
He did the Buendia deal when he was selling Pritchard and assured DF that he had a better replacement for both Pritch and Madders in the pipeline, although he wasn’t sure DF believed him.
It seems that The Athletic have hoovered up Britain’s best sports journos and often doubles their salaries. I read an online article suggesting that one regional chap (not Michael Bailey) had been on £37k and they doubled it to get him to leave. This has left a lot of local papers struggling to get quality replacements as they just can’t compete.
Might be your thing, might not but I figure it’s going to better for me to read this sort of quality when I’m say, waiting for my lad while he’s footy training than to just surf mindless stuff on my phone...
