Henry Winter is the chief football correspondent at The Daily Telegraph, and in my opinion the best sports writer of today. Yes I know he writes for a broadsheet, which stereotypically the majority of students don't read, but his writing is easy to get into and interesting.
His article reporting on the Manchester City versus Liverpool 0-0 draw is just a example of his witty in depth reviews of a match.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/mancity/7285769/Manchester-City-0-Liverpool-0-match-report.html
He compared the match to "a 90-minute advert for the joys of watching paint dry", the article is brilliantly put together. His well informed, articulate writing is a must read in the sports pages and is much respected among fellow writers.
He doesn't just cover the big headlines, he also likes to focus on the other areas of football such as finance, a topic which normally we wouldn't understand but he makes it easy to grasp. He writes things as they are, as if its an ordinary person is telling you what happened.
Some journalists can come across too in the know, too experienced. Clearly Winter knows what he is on about, and he is experienced but it doesn't come across when he writes, he doesn't act as if he knows more than the readers do. This makes his articles very reader friendly and encourages you to read the entire article, not to just take a glance of the intro.
All in all Henry Winter is a great sport journalist, not many would doubt his ability, and I think he's the best.
Thursday, 25 February 2010
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