Barney Ronay
Barney Ronay is an English journalist and author. He is the chief sports writer for The Guardian,[1] and 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 was published by HarperCollins 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 a highly influential campaigner against plans by Lewisham council that he felt could harm Millwall FC.[12][13][14]
In 2014, he was named the 29th most influential Twitter user in UK football.[15] On 10 October 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 31 October 2018 it was announced that Ronay had 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] Ronay and Liew have written a TV series called The Red Zone which was set to be shown on Netflix in 2021, executive produced by Sam Mendes.[20] However, in March 2022 the project was announced as discontinued.[21] In November 2022 he won ‘writer of the year’ at the Football Supporters' Association awards.[22]
Personal life
Ronay was born and raised in South East London, and is of Austrian and Jewish descent, whose grandparents fled during the rise of the Nazis in Austria.[23] He was educated at Oxford University. He is a supporter of Millwall F.C..[24]
References
- "Barney Ronay". The Guardian.
- "Football Weekly - Live! James Richardson / Barry Glendenning as / Barney Ronay / Amy Lawrence. Puns & Punditry!". Eventbrite.
- "Writers". www.newstatesman.com.
- "When Saturday Comes - When Saturday Comes". www.wsc.co.uk.
- "NEW ISSUE: MAY". www.thecricketer.com.
- Storey, Daykin &. "Barney Ronay - theBlizzard.co.uk". www.theblizzard.co.uk.
- Ronay, Barney (2 November 2018). "The day England created their own history in shoot-out against Colombia | Barney Ronay". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
- "Sports Book of the Week: The Manager, by Barney Ronay".
- "What makes a great football manager?". Financial Times.
- "Barney Ronay".
- White, Jim (8 August 2005). "Half an orange and a tube of Deep Heat". The Telegraph.
- Ronay, Barney (27 January 2017). "How the battle to save Millwall's stadium was won". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
- "Millwall & New Bermondsey: it's time to get this story straight". 5 December 2017.
- "Ross Archer: Labour's own goal at Millwall - Conservative Home". 30 January 2017.
- "100 Most Influential UK Football Tweeters". Coral News. 13 November 2014. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
- "A list of the 238 most respected journalists, as nominated by journalists in the 2018 Journalists at Work survey" (PDF). National Council for the Training of Journalists. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
- "FSF Awards 2018 shortlists announced | Football Supporters' Federation". 31 October 2018.
- @WeAreTheFSA (3 December 2018). "It's @barneyronay who takes home the Writer of the Year award at the #FSFAwards - congratulations Barney!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- "The Guardian's Marina Hyde wins two SJA awards in landmark achievement". The Guardian. 24 February 2020. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
- "Netflix Unveils New U.K. Projects with Sam Mendes, Rowan Atkinson, Andy Serkis". 13 December 2020.
- "Netflix pulls plug on football comedy the Red Zone".
- "The Guardian wins newspaper, podcast and writer of the year at FSA awards". The Guardian. 14 November 2022.
- "My grandad was captured by Russians in the second world war and kept alive". the Guardian. 18 June 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- Twitter. 9 April 2014 https://twitter.com/barneyronay/status/453883501453266944?t=YDbgLiGUxoFNRLiEvC8nKQ&s=19. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
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