What FootyGazette is
FootyGazette is an independent global football publication, written for readers who take the game seriously.
We cover the men’s and women’s game across Europe, the Americas, and the major international tournaments, with editorial priorities set by what is interesting and important rather than by the rhythm of any broadcaster’s schedule. We are based in the United Kingdom and Spain, we write in British English with an instinct for global readers, and we launched on 22 May 2026 with a small editorial team and a clear idea of what we wanted to be: the football publication we ourselves would want to read.
The editorial team
Three writers are responsible for the work on this site. They are the people whose names appear on our bylines, whose judgement shapes our coverage, and whose work we ask you to hold us to.
James Whitmore — Premier League and Champions League
Manchester-based tactical writer with twelve years’ experience, formerly of FourFourTwo and The Blizzard. James leads our coverage of the English and European elite, with a particular focus on tactical analysis, manager profiling, and longform features. Read his work and full bio.
Daniel Hart — Business of football
London-based business journalist, ex-Financial Times, covering the money, ownership, regulation, and transfer-market machinery that shapes the modern game. Daniel breaks news, reads accounts, and explains the financial architecture of the sport without the jargon. Read his work and full bio.
María Castellano — La Liga and Latin American football
Madrid-based bilingual reporter, formerly of AS and El País, covering Spanish and Latin American football with the cultural and linguistic depth Anglo coverage routinely skips. María reports from inside the Spanish-speaking football world, in its own language. Read her work and full bio.
Why we exist
Football has never been better covered, and it has rarely been worse served. The volume of coverage has multiplied beyond anything previous generations of supporters could have imagined; the proportion of that coverage that actually informs the reader has not kept pace.
The modern football reader is, on any given day, asked to choose between three things. The first is access journalism — competent, well-resourced, but structurally unable to be candid about the institutions that grant the access. The second is rights-holder media — slickly produced, intermittently excellent, and contractually incapable of telling the reader anything that damages the property. The third is the open social-media discourse — quick, often funny, occasionally brilliant, and entirely unaccountable for what it claims.
FootyGazette is built for the reader who wants a fourth option: a publication that has no broadcasting deal to protect, no club to please, no league to flatter, and no algorithm to chase. We write what we believe is true, we explain how we know it, and we correct it in public when we get it wrong. Our editorial mission, in a single line, is to take football, and the people who love it, as seriously as both deserve.
How we work
Our sourcing standards, our use of AI tools, our corrections policy, our funding disclosures, and our commitment against clickbait are all set out in detail on our editorial standards page. We ask readers to hold us to every line of it. Every article on this site is written or commissioned by a named member of the editorial team, reviewed by a second editor, and signed off before publication. Bylines are responsibilities, not decorations.
How we are funded
FootyGazette is funded primarily by readers. Our /watch/ subscription is our principal revenue stream: readers who pay for access fund the journalism, and that journalism is then accountable to those readers rather than to advertisers, sponsors, or rights-holders. We do not sell reader data. We do not accept payments for editorial coverage. Sponsored content, where it appears, is labelled as such. We say more about all of this on our editorial standards page.
This funding model is a deliberate choice. A publication that earns its money from readers can afford to disagree with leagues, clubs, broadcasters, and agents when the evidence requires it. A publication that earns its money from any of those parties cannot. We have chosen the harder model because it is the only one consistent with the journalism we want to make.
How to reach us
For editorial concerns, corrections, and right-of-reply, write to [email protected]. For legal and takedown notices, [email protected]. For privacy and data enquiries, [email protected]. For subscription and reader-support questions, [email protected]. The full set of contact channels, response times, and editorial commitments are listed on our contact page.
If you have read this far, thank you. We built FootyGazette for you. We intend to be worth your time.
