Our second guest is Rory Smith, soccer correspondent for the New York Times. We talk about what readers want from good sportswriting, profile writing, chasing Pete Doherty through London on a moped, Djibril Cisse and finding a zombie in Russia. The pieces Rory brought along were: Robert Andrew Powell’s book, This Love is Not For Cowards; Ken Early’s Irish Times column on how quickly football has changed; and the broader notion of ‘David Remnick on Boxing’, with reference to his 1997 profile of Mike Tyson. If you’d like to get in touch with the show, email behindthelines@the42.ie. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.