Barney Ronay
Barney Ronay is an English journalist and author.
He is the Senior sports writer for The Guardian[1] he has regularly appeared on The Guardian’s Football Weekly podcast and at the Football Weekly live shows.[2]
Ronay has written for the New Statesman,[3] When Saturday Comes,[4] The Cricketer,[5] and The Blizzard.[6]
Ronay has written several books. How Football (Almost) Came Home: Adventures in Putin's World Cup is published by Harper Collins in November 2018.[7] The Manager: The Absurd Ascent of the Most Important Man in Football, was published in 2010 and was named book of the week by The Independent,[8][9] Any Chance of a Game? A Season at the Ugly End of Park Football was published in 2006. He also co-authored the WSC Companion to Football.[10][11]
Ronay was highly influential campaigner against plans by Lewisham council that he felt could harm Millwall FC.[12][13][14]
He was named the 29th most influential Twitter user in UK football.[15] On October 10, 2018 Ronay was included in a list of the 238 most respected journalists working in Britain as published by the National Council for the Training of Journalists.[16]
On the 31 October 2018, it was announced that Ronay has been nominated in the ‘writer of the year’ category at the 2018 Football Supporters Federation Awards,[17] which he subsequently won ahead of Jonathan Liew and Jonathan Northcroft amongst others.[18] At the 2020 Sports Journalists’ Association awards Ronay was named best football journalist.[19]
Personal life
Ronay was born and raised in South East London, and educated at Oxford University.
References
- "Barney Ronay". The Guardian.
- "Football Weekly - Live! James Richardson / Barry Glendenning / Barney Ronay / Amy Lawrence. Puns & Punditry!". Eventbrite.
- "Writers". www.newstatesman.com.
- . "When Saturday Comes - When Saturday Comes". www.wsc.co.uk.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
- "NEW ISSUE: MAY". www.thecricketer.com.
- Storey, Daykin &. "Barney Ronay - theBlizzard.co.uk". www.theblizzard.co.uk.
- https://www.worldcat.org/title/how-football-nearly-came-home-adventures-in-putins-world-cup/oclc/1055458946&referer=brief_results
- "Sports Book of the Week: The Manager, by Barney Ronay".
- "Subscribe to read". Financial Times.
- "Barney Ronay".
- White, Jim (8 August 2005). "Half an orange and a tube of Deep Heat" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
- https://www..theguardian.com/football/2017/jan/27/how-local-resistance-and-press-scrutiny-saved-millwalls-stadium
- "Millwall & New Bermondsey: it's time to get this story straight". 5 December 2017.
- "Ross Archer: Labour's own goal at Millwall - Conservative Home".
- http://www.nctj.com/downloadlibrary/A%20list%20of%20the%20238%20most%20respected%20journalists.pdf
- "FSF Awards 2018 shortlists announced | Football Supporters' Federation".
- https://twitter.com/the_fsf/status/1069680595968712704?s=12
- https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/feb/24/guardian-sport-marina-hyde-wins-two-sja-awards-barney-ronay-football