This week’s guest on Behind the Lines is Daniel Taylor, now senior writer at the Athletic, whom he joined after a long stint as the Chief Football Writer with the Guardian and Observer.
Daniel has had a stellar career: he’s written books on Brian Clough and Alex Ferguson and won a series of awards for his reporting of the sexual abuse scandal that has rocked British football.
We chat about how Daniel got his break in football reporting, and about the characters of Clough and Ferguson. Daniel covered Ferguson’s United extensively and so is well-placed to talk about just how fearsome Ferguson was like at close quarters...particularly given he was banned from Ferguson’s press conferences for six years.
We also discuss how he reported the sexual abuse story, the bravery of Andy Woodward and the other victims who came forward, and how working on the story affected him.
We also talk about the Athletic, and of how Daniel was once road-raged by Roy Keane.
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