Daniel Storey

Introducing: THE JOURNEYMAN ⚽ A season plan curated by football supporters 🗳️ At least once a week, a poll of clubs ✍️ Winner of each poll is where I go next to write deep-dive piece 🌍 Covers Prem, EFL, Scotland, non-league and more Full info ⬇️ inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Barnsley have the youngest football team in England. That could be exciting. Here it is proof of a club well on its way to breaking point and the lowest ebb in 50 years. The latest Journeyman assignment ⬇️ inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

A complete honour to be nominated for Sports Journalist of the Year at the British Journalism Awards. Say it often, still true: I know how lucky I am and there is nothing I'd rather do. Thanks to @pressgazette.co.uk pressgazette.co.uk/press-gazett...

Harry Kane was never the most talented, not touched by god like so many winners before him. But he is a worthy winner for what he made of himself. The one-season wonder. The boy who started scoring and simply never stopped. Now the king of the world. ⬇️ inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Harry Kane was never the most talented, not touched by god like so many winners before him. But he is a worthy winner for what he made of himself. The one-season wonder. The boy who started scoring and simply never stopped. Now the king of the world. ⬇️ inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

The Score weekend review: There is no Manchester United player who I would want to build a team around, Mikel Arteta has his new siege mentality and Bournemouth enjoy the most successful week in their history. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

For the latest Journeyman assignment I went to AFC Rushden & Diamonds to write about the joy of phoenix clubs and ended up witnessing the greatest day in a club’s history. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Preston North End were painfully mediocre and now they’re just in pain. This is what happens when you let a football club drift. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

The Score: Phil Foden’s banana, Newcastle nosedive and the wild Brighton stat trib.al/f3axHig

Find Arsenal incredibly difficult to work out for the manner in which they seem to sacrifice the first half of their matches through deliberately slow play. Yesterday was dire. And Eberechi Eze was the fall guy. Piece from the City Ground. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Boreham Wood might just be Next Big Thing FC, a tiny club heading to the Football League because of their academy, recruitment and on-pitch relentlessness. I went there for my latest Journeyman assignment inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

How does a football club create pathways? How do they develop and manage young talent? How do they look after the human side? I went to find out. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

The development of academy talent into first-team players is one of football’s biggest industries and its great unknown. In the second of a series embedded within Huddersfield Town, I try to explain how the process works in 11 steps… inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

The development of academy talent into first-team players is one of football’s biggest industries and its great unknown. In the second of a series embedded within Huddersfield Town, I try to explain how the process works in 11 steps… inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

From the sheer scale of the dishonesty to Djibril Cisse offering out Mike Dean and a 5Live caller comparing Manchester City to the Suffragette movement, it has been quite a week. Here are 27 things that fried my brain, and why... inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

A takeover that saves a football club is a cause for celebration, but what happens if recovery never really happens? I went to watch Morecambe, the club that fell off a cliff. This is a lesson for football. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Concerted, deliberate, calculated cheating is the conclusion. A Premier League heist. So throw the book at them and run the owners out of town. And Manchester City supporters should want to lead that movement. Column (free to read) inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Swansea City were stuck fast. Now everything is new. They have signed up for Tony Bloom’s data model and they are top of the Championship. That feels significant, for them and the division. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Manchester City greatest crime is warping reality and history for all football supporters. The dreadful irony: the only thing worse than the uncertainty of not having a verdict is having a verdict and realising that uncertainty is now all we have. ⬇️ inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Journeyman 6: Southend United are over their trauma. Now it’s the next age: moving back up the leagues and remaining transparent. Kieron Dyer and Oliver Gage are leading that movement. It’s a fascinating club ⬇️ inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Morgan Gibbs-White’s game has been supercharged over the last 12 months - goalscoring, pressing, leadership. There is no luxury here. Hopefully Thomas Tuchel is finally catching up with that. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Todd Boehly was a five-year mistake, the great disruptor who created only a mess. He was also a useful lightning rod and a stooge. Now Chelsea’s leaders have nowhere to hide. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

A piece on Derby County, whose post-trauma era was supposed to be supercharged this summer. Then the Saudi takeover failed, results have turned and supporters are wondering where this goes next. ⬇️ inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Journeyman 5: Sheffield Wednesday was a circus; now it’s a football club again. I went to Hillsborough to speak to some of those rebuilding it. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

The first in a series spent behind the scenes inside a Football League club. First up it’s shadowing an owner: What does a foreign billionaire actually do at a football club they own? Why do they buy? And how do they cope with what they can’t control? inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

The first in a series spent behind the scenes inside a Football League club. First up it’s shadowing an owner: What does a foreign billionaire actually do at a football club they own? Why do they buy? And how do they cope with what they can’t control? inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Shrewsbury Town are on the verge of a new era. Few clubs in England need one more. After fan groups united to push for change, this has to be the start. ⬇️ inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Liverpool are fascinating, because I'm not sure how the attack will set up best, how the midfield balance works or what happens with the full-backs. But they're still unbeaten and it's going to be great fun finding it all out. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

The Journeyman 4: AFC Wimbledon have diluted their supporter ownership. That is both a great shame and a sorry indictment of a financial culture that forces compromise at every turn. Is this the death knell for fan ownership? inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Journeyman 3: I went to Rotherham United to find a football club that is suffering badly but thriving. They probably need a new owner, but this one has been magnificent. English football is weird. ⬇️ inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

This has been the Emperor's New Clothes Premier League transfer window, where supporters see the nonsense for what it is and that they are forced to pay for it. And yet still most seem to lap it up. Column. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

I have no idea where Manchester United's ceiling and floor are under Michael Carrick this season and I don't know how anyone could. But their games will be chaotic and open and so it's going to be piping hot fun finding out. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Today's piece, on all being calm and bright at Leeds United. Which is weird and unacceptable...

Leeds United are the Premier League's continuity club this summer. Which is so un-Leeds that it calls into question everything we thought we knew. And it might just make them very good indeed. Column. ⬇️ inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

UPDATED: Deep dive into Ebbsfleet United after their league suspension was extended today. Even if HMRC bill has now been paid (as the club claims), it still leaves serious questions for the new owners that supporters deserve answers to. All here ⬇️ inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Ebbsfleet United are football club that is not allowed to play football matches. I went there to tell a story of life on the brink, how we got here and who gets hurt the most. Wednesday 5pm is the latest judgement day. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Ebbsfleet United are football club that is not allowed to play football matches. I went there to tell a story of life on the brink, how we got here and who gets hurt the most. Wednesday 5pm is the latest judgement day. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

West Ham always seem to exist on the edge of their own calamity. Now the mood is more fragile than ever. On Saturday the London Stadium was a palace of bad vibes. ⬇️ inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

New-look The Score column after the first weekend of the season. On Arsenal control, Hull being patronised, Liverpool looking the same and a rank bad debut. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Everybody might be obsessed with transfers and new faces, but Arsenal have three old-new attackers who barely peaked last season and almost never start together. That should terrify everybody else. Piece from the Emirates. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

“Whatever I do will be an extension of Ange’s legacy” Exclusive interview with new Salford City manager Peter Cklamovski. Whatever happens, it's going to be worth watching. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Aston Villa are heading into a four-competition season with a small squad and spending hampered by financial limitations. And yet…people are still determined to have fun. That is the power of Unai Emery. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Journeyman No. 1: Leicester City - How not to run a football club inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Journeyman No. 1: Leicester City - How not to run a football club inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

The anti-Palestine chant for Manor Solomon by West Ham fans is gross and should be punished. It also reflects how football entirely washed its hands of responsibility over the genocide. Column. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

The new Premier League season starts on Friday - you may have heard - but there is transfer market panic amongst many supporters. Here is a transfer need for every club... inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Poll for the next The Journeyman piece will be tomorrow morning in the WhatsApp group. Use this link to get involved for free: whatsapp.com/channel/0029...

The first match of my The Journeyman project is tomorrow. You can join a WhatsApp group on the link below to keep updated on progress: pieces, photos, videos and polls to choose each match. I crave your presence. ⬇️ whatsapp.com/channel/0029...

Following the Lincoln City journey has been a privilege. Now in the Championship comes something even more fascinating: the only joint-head coaches in English football. I spent a day with Chris Cohen, Tom Shaw and their staff to tell this brilliant story... inews.co.uk/sport/footba...