This week’s guest on Behind the Lines is Miguel Delaney, once of the Sunday Tribune and now the chief football writer with the London Independent.
We talk about how he got his break to become the most notable Irish-Spanish name in this country since Eamon De Valera, what it’s like to work at the biggest events in sport, the characteristics of the English press pack, and his use of Twitter.
He also reveals himself as the nation’s foremost academic on Saipan (he wrote a thesis on it) so we naturally chat quite a bit (possibly too much) about that.
Miguel’s picks were: Hugh McIlvanney’s tee-up of the 1970 World Cup final; “Will somebody tell David Beckham it’s time to go away” by Barney Ronay; and Paul Howard’s Sunday Tribune piece with Raul Nazare
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