Andrew McNair

Andrew McNair

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About

Andrew has been around on Bleacher virtually from the start and a community leader for around 2 years in the World Football section. He is a former professional footballer in the South African lower leagues with a love for very much everything football.

24 year old Andrew spent the last 3 months of the 2008/09 season as a Setanta football reporter for http://www.setanta.com/uk in the Scottish Premier League section. He writes match reports, gives out player ratings and covers the post match interviews every weekend from an SPL ground.

Sadly, the demise of Setanta means he will be looking for new employment during his final year of his BA Journalism degree at university but has something in the pipeline. He'll keep you all posted.

For anyone checking out this site it is important to know Andrew used his work on Bleacher Report to land his job at Setanta as well as an article published in the Thomas Cook travel magazine. This is not only practice for a career in the industry, this is very much a shop window for young writers so aspiring journalists should keep this in mind.

Bio:-

Andrew moved to South Africa as a 13 year old and grew up in a culture of sport in the rainbow nation. He returned to Scotland in 2008 with a failed football career and a Diploma in Journalism under his belt. During his studies he spent plenty of time at St Georges Park, Port Elizabeth, working with the Protea's and some of the best cricketers in the world. Come to think of it, a year full of once in a lifetime moments.

If you are on Facebook then please join my group, Andrew McNair: A journalist in the making at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=35412076250.

Short List

  • Favorite Athletes

    Barry Ferguson, Ally McCoist, James McFadden, Brian Laudrup, Kris Boyd, Alan Hutton, Colin McRae and David Coulthard. Oh and the one and only Darren Fletcher! Andre Nel, Herschelle Gibbs, Kelly Holmes, Rebecca Adlington, Chris Hoy, Andy Murray, Nathan Hines, Euen Murray, Chris Paterson!

  • Favorite Sports Teams

    Glasgow Rangers and Scotland (in anything).

  • Favorite Coaches

    Walter Smith

  • All-Time Sports Moment

    Scotland doing the double over France in the Euro 2008 qualifying campaign! 1-0 and 1-0!

  • Most Memorable Game Attended

    Scottish Cup Final 1997. Kilmarnock beat Falkirk 1-0, thanks to a Paul Wright goal at Ibrox.

  • Most Unbreakable Sports Record

    Rangers and Celtics 9 Scottish League Championships in a row!

  • Ruth or Mays?

    Ruth (Unless you mean Queen Guitarist Brian May, and his brother James of Top Gear fame)

  • Unitas or Montana?

    Montana (What a legend, well that's what I've heard)

  • Pele or Maradona?

    Maradona (Closer to my generation and an all round genius)

  • Federer or Sampras?

    Federer (He's half South African you know)

  • Tiger or Nicklaus?

    Tiger (He just is)

  • Schumacher or Senna?

    Jim Clark (A tragic end to a potentially massive career)

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

    I'll get back to you on that one!

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  • Brian Rhodes posted 1053 days ago

    Brian Rhodes

    Take a look at this mate and let me know what you think. It's quite comprehensive and took a while to write.

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/428171-the-football-league-championship-201011-season-preview

  • John Houmes posted 1062 days ago

    John Houmes

    Season 3 of Bleacher Report Fantasy League is underway. Go to http://fantasy.premierleague.com/
    After you have picked your team, click on LEAGUES and enter this code: 386636-103177
    Cut and paste this message on a few other people’s page so that the word gets around.

  • Vampy04 posted 1127 days ago

    Vampy04

    Hey,

    Something for the "so-called" under-dogs:

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/394544-2010-fifa-world-cup-team-serbia-an-introduction

    My first World Cup Article.

    Looking forward to your response.

    Cheers.

  • Vampy04 posted 1174 days ago

    Vampy04

    Hey mate, my first article as a Featured Columnist:

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/372583-kevin-kuranyi-inglorious-basterd

    Looking forward to your comment.

  • Vampy04 posted 1180 days ago

    Vampy04

    Champions League: Is it tactical brilliance or sweet revenge this time... find it out here and leave comments if you may like:

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/369704-champions-league-the-tale-of-tactical-brilliance-and-sweet-revenge

  • Vampy04 posted 1189 days ago

    Vampy04

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_QePidL750

  • Vampy04 posted 1203 days ago

    Vampy04

    Just came out with this article about Football and Entrepreneurship, grace it with your thoughts.

    Thanks.

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/356795-entrepreneurship-in-football-boon-or-bane

  • Barnaby posted 1207 days ago

    Barnaby

    Hi Andrew

    Wondered if you had any thoughts on the Ramsey tackle?

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/353719-three-arsenal-leg-breakers-all-away-from-home-coincidence

  • James Skerritt posted 1223 days ago

    James Skerritt

    I hate doing this, but it appears that my new article isn't appearing on the home page:

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/344687-uniteds-defensive-circus-key-to-title-destination

    Hope you enjoy reading it!

  • Antony Herbert posted 1223 days ago

    Antony Herbert

    Am taking to self promoting this article as it didnt appear on home page for some reason!

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/343317-homophobia-in-football-a-lost-cause

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