This week’s guest is Adam Crafton.
Adam is a football reporter with the Athletic, and you’ll recognise his byline on some of the biggest stories in the sport across the last few years. Adam talks about how and why he got into journalism, and how one of his earliest jobs involved rocking up to watch a Chelsea game with their then-striking striker, Diego Costa.
We chat about what drew him to the sports news beat, along with some of the biggest stories he has reported. He reflects on a heady, strange experience at the World Cup in Qatar, and also takes us inside his recent sit-down interview with Jordan Henderson, in which Henderson tried but struggled to justify his move to Saudi Arabia. Adam also takes us inside the Mason Greenwood story, in which his reporting proved influential, if not decisive. Why did Man United want to bring Greenwood back? What ultimately prompted their u-turn? And without Adam’s reporting, would Greenwood be playing for United this weekend?
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