Miguel Delaney

Miguel Delaney is a football journalist and author. He is the chief football writer at The Independent.[1]

Whilst working in his native Ireland with the Sunday Tribune, Delaney was nominated for Young Journalist of the year at the National Media Awards,[2] and was later nominated for the NNI Sports Journalist of the year award.[3]

After starting at The Tribune Delaney went on to write for ESPN,[4], the Irish Sunday Independent,[5] the pages of The Blizzard,[6] Eurosport,[7] The Daily Mirror,[8] and the The Belfast Telegraph.[9]

He is the author of Stuttgart to Saipan: The Players’ Stories which covered Ireland’s qualification for international tournaments in 1988, 1990, 1994 and 2002 which made the long list for the William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year and included interviews with the likes of Liam Brady, Pat Bonner and Mark Lawrenson.[10][11]

Delaney has appeared as a pundit on the BBC Radio 5 live ‘Monday Night Club’,[12] The Anfield Wrap[13][14] and Second Captains.[15] Delaney can be heard most weeks during the football season contributing to The Indy Football Podcast. [16] He has also guested on the Irishman Abroad podcast series.[17]

Delaney appeared on the BBC Two television programme Premier League Show debating the greatest ever Premier League side with Gabby Logan, Chris Sutton, Ian Wright and Wes Brown.[18] He has also appeared on BT Sport Football Writers show,[19] and Sky Sports Sunday Supplement.[20]

Personal life

Delaney is half Irish and half Spanish and is bilingual. Delaney studied a journalism degree in Dublin at the DIT before completing a masters degree reading politics.[21][22] Delaney has stated that he regularly plays football with Zonal Marking’s Michael Cox and Twitter disputes about football between the pair are not serious.[23] Delaney has also had a Twitter dispute with Father Ted creator Graham Linehan who described Delaney as a "cunt".[24] As of April 2018 Delaney was the most prolific Irish journalist in Twitter, averaging 59 tweets a day.[25] Delaney described Hugh McIlvanney as his favourite sports writer.[26]

References

  1. ↑ "Miguel Delaney". Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  2. ↑ "2009 Shortlist Announced for Bord Gáis Energy National Media Awards" (PDF). Retrieved 14 October 2018. pdf
  3. ↑ "'Irish Times' journalists nominated for awards". www.irishtimes.com. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  4. ↑ "Europe's top 20 football managers". Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  5. ↑ "Miguel Delaney: Football is refusing to accept it has a drug problem - Independent.ie". Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  6. ↑ Storey, Daykin &. "Miguel Delaney - theBlizzard.co.uk". www.theblizzard.co.uk. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  7. ↑ "Appointing Jose Mourinho would be a big strategic error for Man Utd - they need a long-term plan". 22 February 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  8. ↑ "Miguel Delaney - Mirror Online". www.mirror.co.uk. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  9. ↑ "Why Fred is perfect for Manchester United, explains former Shakhtar coach". Retrieved 14 October 2018 – via www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk.
  10. ↑ "Contenders for William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year - HoganStand". www.hoganstand.com. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  11. ↑ Doyle, Paul. "When Saturday Comes - Stuttgart To Saipan". www.wsc.co.uk. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  12. ↑ "Miguel Delaney to the BBC: I triple checked the Jose Mourinho 6-page letter to Man United story (Audio) - 101 Great Goals". www.101greatgoals.com. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  13. ↑ "Exclusive: The Latest Liverpool Transfer Talk – Including Thomas Lemar And Riyad Mahrez". 5 January 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  14. ↑ "TAW Transfer Special: Liverpool Linked With Leipzig's Timo Werner". 14 March 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  15. ↑ https://www.acast.com/secondcaptains/footballs-shame-contes-impact-manchester-duel-neymar-speak%5Bdead+link%5D
  16. ↑ acast. "The Indy Football Podcast on acast". Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  17. ↑ "Miguel Delaney: Episode 248". Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  18. ↑ "The Premier League Show: Were Arsenal's Invincibles the Premier League's best team?". 10 October 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  19. ↑ "Football Writers Podcast by Pixiu on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  20. ↑ "On Sunday Supplement: Shaun Custis, Miguel Delaney and Simon Mullock - soccer News - Sky Sports". www.skysports.com. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  21. ↑ "Education: Life Beyond Soccer - #15 Miguel Delaney - ExtraTime.ie". Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  22. ↑ Team, Balls. "Exclusive: Miguel Delaney To Replace Dion Fanning At The Sunday Independent". Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  23. ↑ "Vox in the Box: Miguel Delaney". 13 October 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  24. ↑ "TheJournal.ie - Graham Linehan ate the head off an Irish journalist who criticised Father Ted last night". www.dailyedge.ie. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  25. ↑ "Ireland's Most Influential Journalists on Twitter Ranked by #murraytweetindex - PRII - Public Relations Institute of Ireland". PRII. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  26. ↑ "FWA Q&A: MIGUEL DELANEY - Football Writers' Association". footballwriters.co.uk. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
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