How to be a football journalist and get a job with a newspaper or broadcaster

By Tony Attwood Preface: if you don’t want to read all this, but simply want the answer to the “how to” you are already thinking like a journalist, and you don’t have to read this article.  Just skim to the heading at the bottom that says How to do it and read that.  It’s like football – …

What horrors do Fifa have in store for us in 2017… and thereafter?

By Tony Attwood There seems to me to be a growing feeling of confidence in Fifa that they have weathered the storm.  There haven’t been more arrests for a while, and the legal claim against the organisation on behalf of migrant workers employed in dangerous and degrading conditions in Qatar, highlighted recently on Untold, didn’t …

The kings of assist – a bit of statistical fun and games

By Tony Attwood One of the papers recently looked at how many assists the top assistants had after playing 100 games in the premier league. That seemed ok, but I noticed that some clubs seemed to have several players in the list of top assistants (if that is the right word) and some had fewer, …