This week’s guest is former Sunday Times sports editor, Alan English.
\n\nAlan’s is an amazing career, and he delves into what it was like working with Hugh McIlvanney, and his experience at the centre of the Sunday Times’ pursuit of Lance Armstrong.
\n\nAlan has also written a series of books, and he talks of working with Brian O’Driscoll and Paul O’Connell on their respective autobiographies.
\n\nHis nominated pieces include: Hugh McIlvanney’s tribute to the late Matt Busby; an amazing 17,000-word epic in Playboy about the saga of getting Bobby Fischer on a plane for his chess world championship clash with Boris Spassky in Iceland; Paul Kimmage’s multi-part oral history of Ireland’s 2001 win over Holland for the Sunday Independent, The Team That Mick Built; and Jonathan Liew’s live report of Liverpool 4-0 Barcelona for the Independent.
\n\nGet in touch with the show: email behindthelines@the42.ie, or tweet @gcooney93.
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