English journalist and author
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] He has also written for the New Statesman ,[ 3] When Saturday Comes ,[ 4] The Cricketer ,[ 5] and The Blizzard .[ 6]
Early life
Ronay was born and raised in South East London, and is of Austrian and Jewish descent. His grandparents fled during the rise of the Nazis in Austria .[ 7] He was educated at Oxford .[citation needed ]
Career
Ronay has written several books. How Football (Almost) Came Home: Adventures in Putin's World Cup was published by HarperCollins in November 2018.[ 8] 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 ,[ 9] [ 10] 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 .[ 11] [ 12]
In 2014 Ronay was named the 29th most influential Twitter user in UK football.[ 13] 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 .[ 14]
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,[ 15] which he subsequently won ahead of Jonathan Liew and Jonathan Northcroft amongst others.[ 16] At the 2020 Sports Journalists’ Association awards Ronay was named best football journalist.[ 17] 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 .[ 18] In March 2022 the project was announced as discontinued.[ 19] In November 2022 he won ‘writer of the year’ at the Football Supporters' Association awards.[ 20]
Personal life
Ronay is a supporter of Millwall F.C. [ 21] He was a highly influential campaigner against plans by Lewisham council that he believed could harm the club.[ 22] [ 23] [ 24] Ronay spoke about his life on the Guardian's Football Weekly.[ 25]
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 . Archived from the original on 7 May 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2018 .
^ Storey, Daykin &. "Barney Ronay - theBlizzard.co.uk" . www.theblizzard.co.uk .
^ "My grandad was captured by Russians in the second world war and kept alive" . the Guardian . 18 June 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2022 .
^ 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 .
^ "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 . Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 May 2020. 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.
^ Twitter . 9 April 2014 https://twitter.com/barneyronay/status/453883501453266944?t=YDbgLiGUxoFNRLiEvC8nKQ&s=19 . Retrieved 23 January 2023 .
^ 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.
^ Rushden, Max; Glendenning, Barry; Ronay, Barney (27 July 2021). "From the archive: the life and times of Barney Ronay – Football Weekly" . the Guardian . ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 26 July 2024 .