Football journalist of the year on writing columns, deadline panic, and why he didn’t join The Athletic

Barney Ronay discusses the business and practice of sportswriting.

It’s the great inconvenience of the columnist, sports or otherwise — having something worthwhile to say rarely tallies with the contractual obligation to file a column.

The Guardian’s chief sportswriter Barney Ronay tackled that annoyance and several others in an entertaining discussion on the business and practice of sportswriting on this week’s Guardian Football Weekly podcast.