Iain Macintosh is a British journalist, author and podcaster.
He has worked for ESPN, and has been the editor at The Set Pieces and written for The Guardian. He has also had articles in The Blizzard and Sports Illustrated, The Anfield Wrap, and has appeared on the BBC television programme Premier League World.
He has written numerous articles and books about the computer game Football Manager. He also authored a series of sports book entitled ‘Everything you would like to know about..’ with topics including football, golf, and cricket.
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. The new shows attracted five million downloads in their first two months and claim over 500,000 a week. 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. Macintosh also appeared at Totally Football Live shows held at venues such as the O2, in London and Birmingham's Glee club. In 2020 Muddy Knees Media became part of The Athletic.
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).
References
- "Macintosh: Will Manchester rule Prem?". 7 August 2017.
- "Iain Macintosh". the Guardian.
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- "Iain Macintosh". 26 February 2012.
- "'LAWRO' - IAIN MACINTOSH - The Anfield Wrap". 21 August 2012.
- "Gary Lineker on VAR, MOTD: The Premier League Show - BBC Two". BBC.
- "The joys of managing Manchester United".
- "Iain Macintosh". www.penguin.co.uk.
- "Iain Macintosh Books & Bio. Cheap Books by Iain Macintosh. Book People". www.thebookpeople.co.uk.
- "Iain Macintosh on the weird and wonderful experience of being addicted to Football Manager".
- "TheJournal.ie - 'I'll always be proud of winning the Uefa Cup with Southend'". www.the42.ie. November 2015.
- "Interview: Author and journalist Iain Macintosh - Back Page Football". 3 June 2010.
- Storey, Daniel (31 July 2017). "Exclusive: James Richardson to leave Guardian Football Weekly - Football365".
- 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.
- "The Totally Football Show might just have started a sports podcast revolution". Belfasttelegraph – via m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk.
- 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.
- "The Totally Football Show Live". m.ticketmaster.co.uk.
- "News: Kevin Bridges Joins Football Podcast Line-Up". 12 November 2017.
- "Muddy Knees Media & the Totally Football Show are part of the Athletic". 15 June 2020.
- Parkinson, Gary (26 November 2016). "FourFourTwo's Best Football Books Ever: The Writers' Choices". fourfourtwo.com. Retrieved 3 May 2023.