Posts Tagged the player as litterateur
Talent Is a Ghostwriter Who Doesn’t Want to Drown Himself
Of all the football players who inexplicably moonlight as newspaper columnists, David James is the only one I consistently enjoy reading for unironic reasons. His opinions on the game are often genuinely interesting, and his personality on the page has more life than what you find in the usual one-sentence-per-paragraph fluff. Maybe he has a [...]
Micah Richards Is a Courteous Columnist
From Micah Richards’ BBC column on Steve McClaren today:
He gave me my England debut and for someone to pick a defender for England at 18, like he did with me, takes balls….
It is not easy to come into the England set-up at that age but Steve made me feel welcome and he put me on [...]
