The usual response I get from angry readers is “Stick to football”, though some put it more forcefully. It’s true that I have written a lot about football. I’ve also written a lot about politics, and I plan to keep doing both.
Covering two fields is doable if you save time by never attending office meetings, press conferences or drinks receptions. Covering both has also helped me see that, year by year, politics has come ever more to resemble sport.
I started writing about football at 16, for World Soccer magazine. I was paid about £30 an article, which was a fortune for a teenager in the 1980s.
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