Writer
I can write long-form features, news to deadline, colour pieces on location, in-depth interviews and the occasional book! Here’s a selection of my work…
“A must-read for any Manchester United fan.” – Gary Neville
The Men Who Made Manchester United
“Harry Robinson’s new book on the first 70 years of Manchester United is just brilliant… one of the best in the 1000 United books on my shelves. Robinson hasn’t just done loads of painstaking research, with sparkling new details, he’s also a great storyteller. It just flows from page to page.” – Michael Crick, biographer of Sir Alex Ferguson,
“A fine book with incredible attention to detail as Robinson unearths and examines long forgotten United stories.” – Andy Mitten, founder and editor of United We Stand
The Guardian
Read my back-page lead interview with Paul Scholes (August 2024)
The Manchester Mill
The Kurdish barbers of south Manchester
Surviving a traumatic journey across the sea and coming alive again in barber shops (October 2023)
Does Manchester really need a new Football League?
A gender-inclusive revolution challenging the FA at Hough End (April 2024)
The Guardian
‘They can be exploited’: clubs help young footballers navigate digital age (March 2024)
Other
THE SQUALL
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Football x Travel writing, on location in La Paz, Bolivia
And 10 years of writing to deadline…
Delivered on the final whistle of Athletic Club 0-3 Manchester United, from the Estadio San Mames in Bilbao. Read here.
…it subverted your expectations. That was all of this night. A Guggenheim-esque expectation-twister.
Harry Maguire, so often seen for his blockiness — the traditional centre-back build — now showing the exact boldness required on European nights to take on his man, and to beat him.
More from an archive of 1,000s of news pieces over the last decade:
Joe Thompson obituary: 1989-2025
United to play 4,000th game in top flight
Heaton delighted at contract extension
Senne Lammens: Why I signed for United
Cunha inspired by Rooney and United’s 2008 team
Harry Maguire wants to repay United fans’ loyalty
