Miguel Delaney
Football journalist and author in Ireland From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Miguel Delaney is a Spanish-Irish football journalist and author. He is the chief football writer at The Independent.[1]
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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] Ireland's Sunday Independent,[5] the pages of The Blizzard,[6] Eurosport,[7] The Daily Mirror,[8] and 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; the book 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]
Delaney was in 2019 nominated for sports journalist of the year at the British Journalism Awards [21] and football journalist of the year at the Football Supporters' Association awards.[22] Miguel Delaney was shortlisted for the Writer of the Year at the Football Supporters' Association awards in 2020 and 2021.[23][24]
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 master's degree reading politics.[25][26] Delaney described Hugh McIlvanney as his favourite sports writer.[27]
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