Iain Macintosh

Iain Macintosh is a British journalist, author and podcaster.

He has worked for ESPN,^[1] and has been the editor at The Set Pieces and written for The Guardian.^[2] He has also had articles in The Blizzard^[3] and Sports Illustrated,^[4] The Anfield Wrap,^[5] and has appeared on the BBC television programme Premier League World.^[6]

He has written numerous articles and books about the computer game Football Manager.^{[7][8][9][10][11]} He also authored a series of sports book entitled ‘Everything you would like to know about..’ with topics including football, golf, and cricket.^[12]

Macintosh was a co-founder of Muddy Knees production which produces The Totally Football Show, an off-shoot of The Guardian’s Football Weekly podcast which he, James Richardson, and producer Ben Green left in order to create their own product ahead of the 2017-18 season.^[13] The new shows attracted five million downloads in their first two months^[14] and claim over 500,000 a week.^[15] As well as the flagship ‘Totally Football Show’, the ‘Totally Football League show’ was presented by Macintosh as a weekly podcast co-produced by AudioBoom - who reportedly saw their profits increase by 329% at the start of the 2017 season.^[16] Macintosh also appeared at Totally Football Live shows held at venues such as the O2, in London and Birmingham's Glee club.^[17][18] In 2020 Muddy Knees Media became part of The Athletic.^[19]

Personal life

He is a supporter of Southend United. When asked by FourFourTwo MacIntosh chose as his favourite football book The Glory Game by Hunter Davies (1972).^[20]