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]
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. [23] He was educated at Oxford. He is a supporter of Millwall F.C. [24]
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