We really pleased to have spent some time talking to Barney Ronay who is an English journalist and author. He is the Senior sports writer for The Guardian he has regularly appeared on The Guardian’s Football Weekly podcast and at the Football Weekly live shows. Ronay has written for the New Statesman, When Saturday Comes, The Cricketer, and The Blizzard. Ronay has written several books. How Football (Almost) Came Home: Adventures in Putin's World Cup is published by Harper Collins in November 2018. The Manager: The Absurd Ascent of the Most Important Man in Football, was published in 2010 and was named book of the week by The Independent, Any Chance of a Game? A Season at the Ugly End of Park Football was published in 2006. He also co-authored the WSC Companion to Football. Ronay was highly influential campaigner against plans by Lewisham council that he felt could harm Millwall FC. He was named the 29th most influential Twitter user in UK football. On October 10, 2018 Ronay was included in a list of the 238 most respected journalists working in Britain as published by the National Council for the Training of Journalists. On the 31 October 2018, it was announced that Ronay has been nominated in the ‘writer of the year’ category at the 2018 Football Supporters Federation Awards, which he subsequently won ahead of Jonathan Liew and Jonathan Northcroft amongst others. we speak about Euro 2020 https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro-2020/ We spoke in this special about Coronavirus: How will the suspension affect football in Britain? plus loads more, Now stop reading and start listerning to a great show. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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