Ross McCafferty

Greenock, London

Deputy First Person and Opinion Editor at Metro (UK)

yer tea's oot. Scot in London. Journalist. Editor. Political bore. Long suffering Morton and Leyton Orient fan.

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Articles

Your favourite beaches in Europe that aren't full of tourists

1 month ago | metro.co.uk | Paul Hardcastle |Brooke Ivey Johnson |Ross McCafferty |Ellie Hutchings

It's the first day of your summer holiday. After a hearty breakfast and an iced coffee by the pool, you beeline for the nearest beach. But when you get there, it's chaos. Not one sunbed is free, the sand is cluttered with towels, and the air is thick with thumping house music from the crowded beach bar. Currently, many European holiday hotspots are grappling with overtourism. Barcelona has introduced a new tourist zone while Majorca is placing caps on tour group sizes.
Party leaders write for Metro on momentous anniversary

1 month ago | msn.com | Ross McCafferty

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Saturday Night Live is coming to the UK – it’ll never work

2 months ago | msn.com | Ross McCafferty

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Saturday Night Live is coming to the UK

2 months ago | metro.co.uk | Ross McCafferty

'The worst thing I've ever seen.''I've had funnier athlete's foot.''This is an international war crime.'Those were some of the milder responses online to a clip of the US sketch show Saturday Night Live (SNL) released last year featuring two comedians (James Austin Johnson and Sarah Sherman) impersonating Noel and Liam Gallagher. There was similar outrage in 2019 when James Corden appeared on an SNL sketch playing Boris Johnson in a high school setting.
Christmas dinner is disgusting

Dec 24, 2024 | metro.co.uk | Ross McCafferty

'Opinionated.'No-one likes to define themselves by a single word, but I reckon if you were to ask people to sum me up with just one adjective, that one would be the most common. Since I could talk, I've been bending the ears of anyone who will listen to give my view on the issues of the day. But no one comment can quite silence a room, stop people in their tracks, and leave me on the receiving end of angry glances quite like this one. I hate Christmas dinner. There, I said it.
London's greatest alternative Christmas dinners (if you don't like dry turkey)

Dec 5, 2024 | metro.co.uk | Rebecca Sylvestre |Courtney Pochin |Kate Rice |Ross McCafferty

With exactly 21 sleeps to go until the big day, we've got something for the Christmas roast naysayers. So if you've got the dreaded dry roast dinner scaries, fear not. We've put together a list of alternative Christmas meals from different cultures and for different budgets, from ham hock bao buns to warming paneer curries.
I hate the beach

Sep 25, 2024 | metro.co.uk | Ross McCafferty

As the second of three pigeons landed on my hotel room bed, having already desecrated the admittedly lovely room with poo and feathers, it began to dawn on me that maybe, when it came to seaside locations, I might genuinely be cursed. What sins had I committed in a past life that meant every time I ventured in pursuit of that classic British tradition of sea, sand, ice cream, chips and funfairs, a combination of ill-fortune and crazed birds seemed to follow me?
I want Spain to thrash England in the Euro 2024 final

Jul 12, 2024 | msn.com | Ross McCafferty

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I want Spain to thrash England in the Euro 2024 final

Jul 12, 2024 | metro.co.uk | Ross McCafferty

So, on Sunday - will it come home? That's the question on almost everyone in England's lips this weekend, as Gareth Southgate's men have gone from playing a brand of football so absurdly risk averse it made Keir Starmer look like Evil Knievel to the brink of finally ending all those years of hurt by lifting a major trophy at the Euro 2024 final in Berlin. It's certainly a differnt experience to the one my team had in Germany.
Wanting England to lose Euro 2024 doesn't make me bitter

Jun 24, 2024 | metro.co.uk | Ross McCafferty

Well, that's that then. After the usual misplaced hope and inevitable despair, Scotland did as Scotland does and bombed out of a major tournament in the group stage.