Iain Macintosh

Iain Macintosh is a British journalist, author and podcaster.

He has worked for ESPN,^[1] and has been the editor at The Set Pieces and written for The Guardian.^[2] He has also had articles in The Blizzard^[3] and Sports Illustrated,^[4] The Anfield Wrap,^[5] and has appeared on the BBC television programme Premier League World.^[6]

He has written numerous articles and books about the computer game Football Manager.^{[7][8][9][10][11]} He also authored a series of sports book entitled ‘Everything you would like to know about..’ with topics including football, golf, and cricket.^[12]

Macintosh was a co-founder of Muddy Knees production which produces The Totally Football Show, an off-shoot of The Guardian’s Football Weekly podcast which he, James Richardson, and producer Ben Green left in order to create their own product ahead of the 2017-18 season.^[13] The new shows attracted five million downloads in their first two months^[14] and claim over 500,000 a week.^[15] As well as the flagship ‘Totally Football Show’, the ‘Totally Football League show’ was presented by Macintosh as a weekly podcast co-produced by AudioBoom - who reportedly saw their profits increase by 329% at the start of the 2017 season.^[16] Macintosh also appeared at Totally Football Live shows held at venues such as the O2, in London and Birmingham's Glee club.^[17][18] In 2020 Muddy Knees Media became part of The Athletic.^[19]

Personal life

He is a supporter of Southend United. When asked by FourFourTwo MacIntosh chose as his favourite football book The Glory Game by Hunter Davies (1972).^[20]

References

1. "Macintosh: Will Manchester rule Prem?". 7 August 2017.
2. "Iain Macintosh". the Guardian.
3. Storey, Daykin &. "Iain Macintosh - theBlizzard.co.uk". www.theblizzard.co.uk.
4. "Iain Macintosh".
5. "'LAWRO' - IAIN MACINTOSH - The Anfield Wrap". 21 August 2012.
6. "Gary Lineker on VAR, MOTD: The Premier League Show - BBC Two". BBC.
7. "The joys of managing Manchester United".
8. "Iain Macintosh". www.penguin.co.uk.
9. "Iain Macintosh Books & Bio. Cheap Books by Iain Macintosh. Book People". www.thebookpeople.co.uk.
10. "Iain Macintosh on the weird and wonderful experience of being addicted to Football Manager".
11. "TheJournal.ie - 'I'll always be proud of winning the Uefa Cup with Southend'". www.the42.ie. November 2015.
12. "Interview: Author and journalist Iain Macintosh - Back Page Football". 3 June 2010.
13. Storey, Daniel (31 July 2017). "Exclusive: James Richardson to leave Guardian Football Weekly - Football365".
14. Williams-Grut, Oscar. "Football journalist Iain Macintosh wants to build a podcast empire — the Totally Football Show is just the start". Business Insider. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
15. "The Totally Football Show might just have started a sports podcast revolution". Belfasttelegraph – via m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk.
16. Hodgson, Camilla. "Totally Football Show and No Such Thing as a Fish podcasts help AudioBoom's revenue jump 329%". Business Insider. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
17. "The Totally Football Show Live". m.ticketmaster.co.uk.
18. "News: Kevin Bridges Joins Football Podcast Line-Up". 12 November 2017.
19. "Muddy Knees Media & the Totally Football Show are part of the Athletic". 15 June 2020.
20. Parkinson, Gary (26 November 2016). "FourFourTwo's Best Football Books Ever: The Writers' Choices". fourfourtwo.com. Retrieved 3 May 2023.