This week’s guest is Michael Calvin.
Michael is a multi-award winning journalist who has covered virtually every major sporting event, including seven Olympic Games and six World Cups. His books have won a host of major awards too, including The Nowhere Men, Living on the Volcano, and No Hunger in Paradise.
He has also co-written the autobiographies of Dylan Hartley, Alistair Cooke, Joey Barton and Gareth Thomas, and it’s the extraordinary story of writing the latter book we discuss on this show. We also talk about his new book, Whose Game is it Anyway?, in which he reflects on why he first fell in love with football, and how he reconciles that with the ugly state of the modern game.
Plus there’s the harsh treatment of Sam Allardyce, the lessons learned watching Muhammad Ali watching his dughter in the ring, the intractability of Margret Thatcher and a story involving interviews with members of Poland’s Solidarity movement in confessional boxes.
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