Iain Macintosh
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Iain Macintosh is a UK
sports journalist and author who writes for the Singapore
daily The New Paper
. He writes under the column "Your English Kaki" for the sports section ("kaki" being a local term for "buddy").
Macintosh was voted second runner-up for the Best Football Journalist award held by Soccerlens website in 2010. He was also voted 2010's Best Contributor to Blog or Podcast for the football website In Bed With Maradona (http://inbedwithmaradona.com/).
Macintosh has published five books on sports, including three on rugby
, cricket
and golf
and two on association football. A Liverpool
fan as a child, he converted to Southend United after his first visit to Roots Hall in 1991.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
sports journalist and author who writes for the Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
daily The New Paper
The New Paper
The New Paper is Singapore's second-highest circulating paid English-language newspaper, first launched on July 26, 1988, by Singapore Press Holdings . According to SPH, its average daily circulation for August 2010 was 101600....
. He writes under the column "Your English Kaki" for the sports section ("kaki" being a local term for "buddy").
Macintosh was voted second runner-up for the Best Football Journalist award held by Soccerlens website in 2010. He was also voted 2010's Best Contributor to Blog or Podcast for the football website In Bed With Maradona (http://inbedwithmaradona.com/).
Macintosh has published five books on sports, including three on rugby
Rugby football
Rugby football is a style of football named after Rugby School in the United Kingdom. It is seen most prominently in two current sports, rugby league and rugby union.-History:...
, cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
and golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
and two on association football. A Liverpool
Liverpool F.C.
Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. Liverpool has won eighteen League titles, second most in English football, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups...
fan as a child, he converted to Southend United after his first visit to Roots Hall in 1991.