Jon Naylor's Sportswriter Profile

Jon Naylor joined April 2008

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About Jon »

Jon is the Multi-Media Editor for Loughborough Students' Union in England, responsible for the student magazine, radio station and TV station.

A keen sports fan and journalist, he has won awards writing for the Students' Union magazine and has become the Editor-In-Chief, also taking the reins at the heads of the broadcasting wings of Loughborough Students' Media.

Having taken a break from writing on Bleacher Report to focus on his career, Jon is back writing and will be contributing regularly on the football and cricket sections.

Any comments, queries or opinions are welcome, so please feel free to write on any articles or my bulletin board.

Follow Jon's Sports Rumours feed on Twitter: www.twitter.com/sportrumours

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Favorite Athletes

Steven Gerrard, Fernando Torres, Ian Rush, Novak Djokovic, Lewis Hamilton, Joe Calzaghe, Ricky Hatton, Ian Bell, George Best, Kevin Pietersen, Shane Warne, Sachin Tendulkar, Ian Botham.
Favorite Sports Teams

Liverpool FC, England and Wales Cricket Team, London Wasps and the Delhi Daredevils
All Time Sports Moment

Liverpool 3-3 AC Milan (Liverpool win 3-2 on penalties) - best final I've ever seen and possibly the best final ever.
Most Memorable Game Attended

Tottenham 4-4 Chelsea.
Most Unbreakable Sports Record

Don Bradman's Test average - a heartbreaking 99.94. Dixie Dean's records come a close second - 383 goals in 433 appearances for Everton, 60 league goals in one season.
Ruth or Mays?

Ruth. She's much nicer.
Unitas or Montana?
Jordan or Russell?
Gretzky or Orr?
Pele or Maradona?

Pele - his hands were only ever on the trophies, not the ball.
Federer or Sampras?

Both have achilles' heels at the French, but I'd plump for the Fed through his sheer and unadulterated class with every stroke he makes.
Tiger or Nicklaus?

The Golden Bear until Tiger beats his 18 Majors record.
Petty or Earnhardt?
Schumacher or Senna?

Senna for me; a tragic loss to the sport and one that has had permanent repercussions.
Pac 10, Big 12, Big 10, SEC, ACC, or Big East?

Latest Articles »

Ashes Test at Lord's: Time For the Selectors to Pick Onions

07/13/2009

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Premier League 2008-09: The Awards of the Season

05/24/2009

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Sir Alex Ferguson Pays Football The Ultimate Disrespect

04/19/2009

843 reads 29 comments 5 likes

Liverpool's Champions League Dream Ended by Chelsea: Where Did It All Go Wrong?

04/14/2009

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Shikha said...

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Hello!
made a general cricket slideshow: (humor)

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/220172-sledging-in-retrospect-a-humor-touch

Hope u can take a look.

127 days ago

Barney said...

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Remembering the 96...

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/156467-remembering-hillsborough-youll-never-walk-alone

221 days ago

Goutham Babu said...

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Hello bro..i published the second part of the funniest soccer quotes ever.,..so pls have a look and give your opinion..
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/155881-funniest-soccer-quotes-ever-pt-2

222 days ago

Rohini Iyer said...

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Hello Jon...i was thinking on the lines of a rewind sort of a thing, one World Cup match that is most memorable from a fan's line of thought, i thought if i could start it by this week, it would be fun. what say, are you game??

222 days ago

Barney said...

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Hey Jon,

I've written an article about Liverpool with religious connections as it is Easter Sunday. Now, I'm not the most religious guy on this earth, as you may have guessed, so I'm not sure how it has come out! I would appreciate your thoughts and views on it as I'm not convinced it came out as well as I had planned!

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/154914-an-easter-sunday-special-the-parable-of-liverpool-football-club

Cheers,
Barney

224 days ago

Barney said...

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The results are in and the votes have been counted! Check out this month's winners of the World Football Awards!

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/153383-br-world-football-community-awards-march-2009-results

Cheers,
Barney

227 days ago

Goutham Babu said...

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Pls read my latest article(Humor) and say what you fell:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/152876-funniest-quotes-ever-made-by-soccer-playersits-really-funny

228 days ago

Jamie Ward said...

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Hi Jon,

Your POTD was well worth it.

As to the tags - I always rammed as many tags on an article as i could to, like you say, increase traffic.

But after spending a few months here and getting to know the system - as well as the b/r rules on tagging - I realise how frustrating it is to spend time writing an article for it to be knocked off the Liverpool front page by 2-3 articles that are tagged wrongly.

I now advertise by using facebook etc, it gets quite a few hundred reads straight away by publishing in ure news feed as well as posting it in applications relevant to your team.

There is of course the obvious twitter and myspace alternitives.

Thanks for chatting to me about it and take care,

Jamie

229 days ago

David Jacobs said...

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Alan Shearer takes the reigns at Newcastle United, but I think he needs a bit more than 7 weeks. Sing this parody and comment on what you think fate has in store:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/152333-parodies-couldnt-i-have-had-more-time-featuring-alan-shearer

Thanks again,

Weird Dave.

229 days ago

Goutham Babu said...

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Hello bro..pls read my latest article and say what you feel about it..
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/147369-which-is-the-best-league-in-europe-serie-a-la-liga-or-premier-league

237 days ago

Rohini Iyer said...

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you are the ex-community leader for cricket, aren't you?? welcome back...[:)] these days i have taken up the charge..would really appreciate if you could help in case any difficulty arises...thanks...

237 days ago

Jersey Al Bracco said...

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Here's my first shot at a "soccer" article: Would love to hear your comments:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/146452-us-mens-soccer-is-landon-donovan-really-the-best-we-can-do

239 days ago

Goutham Babu said...

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hello Jon,pls read my article and say what you feel..
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/142106-footballtop-10-seria-a-players-since-2000

246 days ago

Dave Morrison said...

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Hey Jon—Dave Mo here, a Bleacher Report Community Coordinator.

I've been spending time on our Cricket page and read a couple of your old articles. Really on-point analysis...you do good work.

Given that you haven't written in a while, I thought I'd check in and see if you're interested in picking up your coverage again. What do you say?

If not, it would be great if you could give me some feedback on why you decided to stop writing and what we could have done to better serve you. If you wouldn't mind, please shoot me a line at dmorrison@bleacherreport.com with any thoughts.

Thanks so much,

Dave Mo

350 days ago

Zander Freund said...

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Hey Jon—how's it going?

Just wanted to check in and see how things in the Cricket Community were going. Seems like we're getting a solid base of writers together but that we're having more trouble generating discussions in the threads...

What about writing on the bulletin boards of the Community's top members and encouraging them to get more involved/comment on every article? This also might be a good time to begin publishing a weekly Round Table where you get the best Cricket minds on B/r together to talk about the game each week.

Let me know thoughts when you have a chance. Hope you're having a great summer!!

Zander

495 days ago