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FWA Q&A: MARCEL VAN DER KRAAN
MARCEL van der KRAAN on watching Jesus in football boots...being mistaken for Lance Armstrong...and paying for toilet paper in BelarusHave you ever worked in a profession other than football?
When I was 17 and still at college, I had my own little business in polishing cars. I was making more money than my dad. People would bring their car and pick it up at night. The boss of a major company asked if I could polish his wife’s car. He insisted that I would pick it up at his house in the country on a Saturday morning at 7 ...
Tags: Allianz Arena, Belarus, George Best, Holland v England, Jonathan Norcroft, Lance Armstrong, Marcel van der Kraan, Paul Smith, Ronald Koeman, tony adams, world cup
Mike Collett of Reuters gives his viewpoint on England’s World Cup qualifiers
Mike Collett of Reuters looks ahead to England's 2014 World Cup qualifiers against San Marino and Montenegro.
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Tags: england, Montenegro, Reuters, Rio Ferdinand, San Marino, world cup, World Cup Qualifier
FWA Q&A: KEVIN BAXTER
KEVIN BAXTER of the Los Angeles Times on why Manchester is the culinary capital of the world...the wonderful Doghouse...and the importance of learning a second languageHave you ever worked in a profession other than football?
As for covering the sport, I came very late to football – and even later to a deep appreciation of it. For more than 20 years I primarily covered baseball and only became involved in football because my newspaper needed a Spanish speaker to follow the Mexico team through its preparations for the 2010 World Cup. I followed the team through Europe then to ...
Tags: Asamoah Gyan, Azteca, baseball, Bruce Arena, Family Guy, Giovani Dos Santos, Kevin Baxter, Landon Donovan, lionel messi, Los Angeles Times, Manchester, Mexico, Mexico City, Old Trafford, Ozzie Guillen, Wembley, world cup
FWA Q&A: PHILIP QUINN
PHILIP QUINN, football correspondent of the Irish Daily Mail, on meeting himself...why a football writer was Man of the Match in Paris...and bunged up for a week at the Tour de FranceHave you ever worked in a profession other than football?
No. Signed on as a freelance aged 17 in 1979 with the Evening Herald armed with notebook, pen, wide-eyed wonder and, crucially, a copy of the Dublin bus timetables. Nearly 35 years on, the wonder has never left me.
Tags: Brian McDermott, Carlos Alberto, Champions League Final, colin young, Diego Maradona, Gortakeegan, Ireland, Irish Daily Mail, Jonathan Wilson, manchester city, match of the day, Mick McCarthy, Philip Quinn, Tour de France, Wembley, world cup
FWA Q&A: MIGUEL DELANEY
MIGUEL DELANEY on super Spain...awesome Ajax...and magnificent McIlvaneyHave you ever worked in a profession other than football?
Sort of, but not really. I was lucky enough to go straight out of university into a job on the sports desk of the now sadly-defunct Irish paper, the Sunday Tribune. And, although they tried to inflict other sports on me that I never had any real interest in, I was always leaning towards football!
Tags: Ajax, Barry Davies, Champions League Final, Chelsea, Ireland, Kiev, Martin Tyler, Messi, Netherlands, Roberto Martinez, Spain, Sunday Tribune, The Bernabeu, Tim Cahill, world cup, World Cup Final
SOCCER…SUNSHINE…SAMBA…BUT BRAZIL 2014 WILL NOT BE EASY
By CHRISTOPHER DAVIES
BRAZIL. A country that conjures up images of sunshine, fabulous beaches, carnivals, Pele...the most successful nation in World Cup history, so what better place to stage the 2014 World Cup finals?
Mike Collett, the football editor of Reuters and member of the Football Writers’ Association’s national committee, spent two weeks in Brazil checking out the venues and any possible problems. Brian Homewood was Reuters’ South America football editor for 20 years. Footballwriters.co.uk asked them about the good and bad of Brazil 2014.
Tags: Brazil, brazil 2014, world cup
WHEN THIERRY BECAME HENRY
PHILIPPE AUCLAIR thinks Thierry Henry has a right to be considered France’s greatest footballer but in a ‘love letter’ he explains the character of the player changed...By CHRISTOPHER DAVIES
IT IS sad that a player who gave Arsenal, English and French football such joy, so many moments of incredible skill, scoring breathtaking goals after a 60-yard lung-bursting run should be remembered as much for a handball (pedants will argue two handballs) as the pleasure he served up.
Tags: Arsenal, barcelona, Cantona, France, Messi, philippe auclair, robert pires, Ronaldo, Thierry Henry, world cup, Zidane
The Road to Brazil starts…in Trinidad
ONE DOWN...831 to go. Belize 5, Monserrat 2 (att 150) was never going to knock Alex McLeish or Luka Modric off the back pages but the game was significant as it was the first 2014 World Cup qualifier.The road to Brazil started at the Ato Bolden stadium in Trinidad because there is no suitable venue in Monserrat, an island near Antigua which was almost destroyed by the 1995 reawakening of La Soufrière volcano. Deon McCauley claimed a small slice of history with the first hat-trick of the 2014 campaign.
Tags: brazil 2014, Christopher Davies, editorial, opinion, world cup