About

EPL Featured Columnist @ www.bleacherreport.com/epl

EPL Contributor @ Hold The Back Page Podcast with SetantaBet & Back Page Football.
You can listen to me Podcast about football here @ http://soundcloud.com/bpfootball

EPL Featured Columnist @ www.backpagefootball.com "The Messi of Football Blogs" - Mens Health Magazine.

Featured Blogger for Tiger Beer @ www.tigerbeer.com/football Jan 2010-Jan 2011

Football Writer @ www.soccerlens.com

EPL Featured Columnist @ www.sportingpreview.com

Football Featured Columnist @ www.TOsports.ca

Tottenham Hotspur Columnist @ www.comeonspurs.com

B/R World Football Team Leader - 2010.

B/R World Football Writer of the Year 2009/10.

Tiger Beer Blogger Jan 2010- Jan 2011

Choose Football. Choose a team. Choose a vocation. Choose a family. Choose a stadium, choose bad catering, no leg room, whingeing glory seekers and cynical die-hards. Choose wing wizardry, midfield dynamos, and twenty a season strikers. Choose fixed interest season ticket repayments. Choose your seat. Choose your friends. Choose over-priced replica kits and matching accessories. Choose a reserve team striker on loan from a range of bigger clubs. Choose going out on the lash after the game and wondering who the hell you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing grand slam Sundays, stuffing junk food into your mouth. Choose going home and away til the end of it all, pishing your last on a miserable terrace, nothing more than an embarrassment to the cooler, sharper brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose football.

Hailing from the land of Saints and Scholars I come from a long tradition of people who clearly have too much time on their hands and like voicing their opinion, so if you've nothing better to do on a rainy morning take a trawl through my back catalogue. There you'll find articles ranging from football to food to comics to boxing to cattle to westerns and music and then back to football again, with a little bit of history thrown in for good measure.

I have also been lucky enough to see a couple of articles be picked up by FOX Sports, CBSSports, the LA Times Online, Daily Mirror Football Online and BBC 606.

And seen as everyone else in the world is doing it, you can follow me on Twitter -
http://twitter.com/WillieGannon.

News is something that someone somewhere does not want you to write. Everything else is just advertising.

Short List

  • Favorite Athletes

    Roy Keane, Diego Maradona, Alan Shearer, Dynamite Kid, Kurt Angle, Padraig Harrington

  • Favorite Sports Teams

    Whoever plays good football.

  • All Time Sports Moment

    Houghton's goal against England in Euro 88

  • Most Memorable Game Attended

    Ireland v England at Lansdowne Road...match abandoned....

  • Most Unbreakable Sports Record

    Spurs never winning the Premier League

  • Ruth or Mays?

    Roy Keane

  • Unitas or Montana?

    Roy Keane

  • Jordan or Russell?

    Roy Keane

  • Gretzky or Orr?

    Roy Keane

  • Pele or Maradona?

    Maradona

  • Federer or Sampras?

    Federer

  • Tiger or Nicklaus?

    Tiger

  • Petty or Earnhardt?

    Roy Keane

  • Schumacher or Senna?

    Schumacher

  • ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12 or SEC?

    ??? no...Roy Keane?

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  • Alex McArdle posted 21 days ago

    Alex McArdle

    Willie just published my first article, take a look but bear in mind it was an assignment! http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1040955-five-five-star-signings-that-could-save-uniteds-season

  • Alex McArdle posted 24 days ago

    Alex McArdle

    No problem Willie, there's very few few other Irish writers on B/R. I'll let you know when I get publishing.

  • Mohamed Al-Hendy posted 31 days ago

    Mohamed Al-Hendy

    please tell me you emailed that Tina girl Willie :p hahaha

  • illya mclellan posted 35 days ago

    illya mclellan

    Hey man, surely you must be getting nervous at how well Spurs are doing, heady days eh?

  • tina amsalu posted 36 days ago

    tina amsalu

    Amsalu_tina@yahoo.com
    Hello
    I saw your profile today and it was so good to me. I am interested to be a friend, first i also believe that coming to you will be a probability of meeting that very love that has been lacking in my entire life. please i will like you to contact me direct to my e-mail address, (amsalu_tina@yahoo.com) i don't know the possibility of remaining in forum for long time,i will give you a full introduction of my self with my pictures OK. i will be waiting for your mail to my e-mail adsdress(amsalu_tina@yahoo.com) as you know
    there is no age,race,co-lour n religion bar when it comes to true love,
    cares Tina.

  • illya mclellan posted 70 days ago

    illya mclellan

    Hey bro, how have you been? Have moved across the ditch to Melbourne which is exciting, hope you are making progress with your writing, I have hit a wall in a way, but still tap the keys religiously, hoping to make some headway over here in Oz and Melbourne is sports mad so it could be a good place to be in that regard. Of course my writing is a lot more eclectic than just sport, but I think the sport angle could be a good option over here, regards, Illya

  • Shawn Etemadi posted 178 days ago

    Shawn Etemadi

    Willie, I love what you've done with your "About Bio". It's Trainspotting, with a football twist!

  • Dave Byrne posted 196 days ago

    Dave Byrne

    Fair play on you rlast article. Well thought out piece with clear ideas that are well put forward. Not to mention the fact it stirred up a serious amount of reads and comments.

  • Samuel Mensah posted 217 days ago

    Samuel Mensah

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/767354-fifa-make-villian-who-sent-off-van-persie-head-of-referees

  • Delores Smith-Johnson posted 264 days ago

    Delores Smith-Johnson

    No problem, Willie! All the best to you as well. :)

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