Ben Fisher
Journalist at Freelance
Sports Journalist at The Guardian
Football reporter @guardian_sport. ‘Great touch for a big man’ - @IanWright0, 2022; ‘A very long man’ - (unnamed) Istanbul taxi driver, 2023
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Ben Fisher
The cider will taste that little bit sweeter in these parts tonight, after Bristol City secured a place in the Championship playoffs for the first time in 17 years. At the final whistle, everyone of a Bristol City persuasion had to wait a little longer for confirmation. Liam Manning, his assistant Chris Hogg and several players huddled around Harry Cornick, the striker not in the squad, whose phone carried updates from Bramall Lane, where a Blackburn goal would have changed everything.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Ben Fisher
It is high season for engravers, a fertile few weeks for after-dinner speakers to make hay at elaborate end-of-season dos, but not every Championship team has something worth celebrating. Last Saturday, three hours after Cardiff’s players sank to the turf when the final whistle confirmed their relegation to the third tier, a division the club has not played in for 22 years, the squad slipped into suits for their annual black-tie awards night in a suite overlooking the same surface.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Ben Fisher
This week Nottingham Forest readied themselves for the Champions League, Evangelos Marinakis relinquishing his controlling interest in the club to comply with Uefa’s ownership rules. Marinakis’s other club, Greek champions Olympiakos, have already qualified for the grandest stage in the club game but Forest’s bid to return to European competition will probably go to the wire.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Ben Fisher
‘Gold, like our club,” says Vítor Pereira, pointing towards his glass of Asahi. “This is the colour.” The charismatic Wolverhampton Wanderers head coach has just taken a sip of beer and something of a breather halfway through an hour-long conversation at the Inn at Shipley, a pub on the outskirts of the city, taking in everything from his days as a lifeguard in his hometown of Espinho, a fishing village south of Porto, to almost becoming Everton manager – on three occasions.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Ben Fisher
It was the transfer nobody saw coming: Luka Modric to Swansea City, not joining as a player but a minority stakeholder. The most decorated player in Real Madrid’s history, a six-time Champions League winner and one of the greatest midfielders of his generation pitching up as a co-owner at a mid-table Championship club was certainly an unforeseen end-of-season development. A Ballon d’Or winner and Bernabéu star walking into the Swansea boardroom or exploring the Mumbles?
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Bristol City make the playoffs. Moment of the afternoon surely Manning and his six-year-old Isaac, wearing No 6, doing the fist pumps together towards the Section 82 fans: https://t.co/1iTsDAyPvO
Championship final day throws up double jeopardy: Bristol City v Preston https://t.co/ONpRbpZFTf
Positive #readingfc update on a big day in League One: deal in principle has been agreed for Rob Couhig to buy Reading, with transaction due to be completed shortly. As a result, Dai has until Thursday to divest his shares.