Part of Boro Week.
Fiercely independent but with a platform at Football365,John looks at everything but the pitch in his writing. For 20 years he has raged against the machine and dropped more rock references than Henry Winter. His 2010 book We Ate All The Pies was longlisted for awards, while in 2019 he published (on his own imprint) Can We Have Our Football Back, available here : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Can-Have-Our-Football-Back-ebook/dp/B07XDZY54N
The Mark E Smith of football criticism, John has said that ‘being Northern I feel more comfortable with criticism than with praise’, so I won’t dare call him one of Britain’s finest football critics who, in his own words, hopes to add ‘a unique dot to pointillist picture of the Now’. For him creative writing is therapy, so in his spare time he writes thrillers, listening to the radio and being gripped by 5Live commentaries.
