A Funeral for A More Splendid Life
Here lies A More Splendid Life, dead at just under five years of age. I owe all my successes to you. Thanks to the hangers on. I am now mired in my full-time gig with theScore, which you can find here.
"It turned you into a member of a new...
On the Guardian Sport Blog redesign
A year ago last month, I wrote a six part series for Pitch Invasion called "Football, blogs and newspapers unite?" in which I pushed for a newspaper/blog network as the future of digital sports journalism. Here's me:
Moreover, many papers are mulling o...
I’m the Editor of theScore Footy Blog
BOOF! So I know I'm here as often but you can come see me there daily. I'm going to work in at least one post a week here to let off personal steam, so this blog will get a lot more annoying for those of you who hate that sort of thing. Catfish?
Henry Winter is a blogger
The question comes up time and again: "Is there still such a thing as mainstream football media?"
I'll leave the question aside in a North American context, but there clearly is in some parts of the world, namely England, where the football league's t...
On careerism in the incestuously small Canadian soccer journalism scene
The Canadian soccer writing landscape has exploded over the last few years. It almost feels redundant to write this, but the number of Canadian soccer sources now available on the web is truly remarkable.
I don’t want to get in a long-winded breakdo...
Canadian soccer’s annus horribilis
In honour of the royal visitors Kate and whoseewotsits, this has been an annus horribilis for Canadian soccer.
Our two MLS franchises are stumbling through their respective league seasons. The Canadian national teams crashed in out in the group s...
Fabregas to Barca is a singularity
I have this vision of reporters sitting around sports desks in the UK, drawing straws for who has to go cover the Febregas to Barcelona story. Sympathetic colleagues offer the unlucky reporter promises of after-work pints, and the editor reminds everyo...
“You’re a misogynistic dinosaur if you don’t care about women’s football”
Rollins over at CDN has an interesting round-up of some of the (perceived) criticisms of the Canadian national men's team in light of the women's success (which so far amounts to an honourable loss to Germany).
I have to say though, it would have been...
A trend that isn’t going to go away
Grant Wahl's tweet of the Gold Cup television numbers has been making the rounds:
Wahl smartly wonders why the game wasn't shown on the main Fox network, and relegated to FSC. Univision made up the vast majority of those viewing numbers.
In any cas...
Some encouraging Canadian soccer pundit news
Great news for Kara Lang, who only six months ago announced her unfortunate early retirement from football. She'll be joining the Sportsnet crew for the FWWC. Just two wishes please:
1) Let her speak. She's whip smart on the game and the present state...
The illusion of the soccer journalist as ‘expert’
Reading Jamie Cutteridge's fascinating EFW interview with Mirror soccer scribe Oliver Holt, you're reminded how the Internet is slowly ebbing away at the authoritative "aura" of the full-time print journalist.
Holt you'll remember received a lot of at...
"National panic about American identity"
From a Left Wing's Jennifer Doyle makes a good case against Tim Howard's rant following the Gold Cup medal ceremony, in which the American keeper remarked: "I think it was a f***ing disgrace that the entire post-match ceremony was in Spanish. You can b...
