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Journalists love twitter. Twitter is probably the easiest and the fastest way for the journalists to connect with people around the globe. The football journalists are feeding the latest news and insides of the game on twitter so that nothing is missed as long as you possess a gadget in hand. Since the inception of twitter, the football fans have increasingly indulged in a very common ritual of going through their twitter timeline while watching a match.Here’s a look at some of the must follow twitter accounts which makes your daily dose of football feeds sweeter.
#1 Henry Winter
Henry Winter is an English sports journalist who started at The Independent before moving to The Telegraph in 1994, where he is now Football Correspondent.
In 2012, Winter was named among the top 10 most influential sportswriters in Britain by the trade publication UK Press Gazette.
Here are some of Winter’s sample tweets that were posted during the matches.
In 2012 Winter was named among the top 10 most influential sportswriters in Britain by the trade publication, UK Press Gazette.
You can follow him here: @henrywinter
#2 Guillem Balague
Guillem Balague is a football journalist and has written for several English and Spanish newspapers.
He correctly predicted that Cristiano Ronaldo would go to Real Madrid. In fact, he also broke the news of a pre-contract agreement between Real Madrid and Ronaldo.
This was confirmed by the former chairman Ramon Calderon. Balague also reports for Sky Sports News from Spain. He consistently breaks exclusive stories regarding transfers to and from La Liga.
Some other stories that Balagué broke were David Beckham's move to Real Madrid, Fernando Torres’ transfer from Liverpool to Chelsea and David de Gea to Manchester United.
Some of Balague’s tweets
When Real Madrid played Liverpool in the Champions League.
Guillem Balague’s reaction to Alves’ transfer rumour.
You can follow him here: @GuillemBallague
#3 Sam Wallace
Sam Wallace is the Football Correspondent for The Independent. He spent a few years in Manchester covering the Manchester clubs when he was at the Daily Telegraph.
He says: “I always try to engage with those who have a valid point. I was a bit late to Twitter but it is impossible to ignore now. Certainly, newspaper editors and executives are taking it (twitter) very seriously.”
This was Sam Wallace's tweet after Liverpool defender Kolo Toure gave away a late extra-time penalty against Middlesbrough in the Capital One Cup.
Wallace says Mourinho-Wenger’s row was entertaining.
You can follow him here: @SamWallaceIndy
#4 Gabriele Marcotti
Gabriele Marcotti is an England-based Italian sports journalist, sports author, and radio-television presenter.
In the United States, he is known for his work in Sports Illustrated and The Wall street Journal. He also writes for Champions Magazine, The Times in England, and the Sunday Herald in Scotland, having previously written for the Daily Mail and the Financial Times.
Gabriele Marcotti on Twitter: "Why do we assume that if a team scores inside two mins into the 2nd half it must have something to do with the half-time team talk?"
Some of Gabriele Marcotti’s tweets:
You can follow him here: @Marcotti
#5 Sid Lowe
Sid Lowe is an English Madrid based columnist and journalist, who has been covering Spanish football for many publications websites, television channels, radio stations and football related podcasts across the world.
Lowe has been writing for The Guardian newspaper and guardian.co.uk website since 2001.
Sid Lowe’s interview of Luis Suarez post the racial abuse incident was criticized by many, saying that there were misleading points that could be read as a doubting of the intent of the Liverpool player’s actions.
You can follow him here: @sidlowe
#6 Gianluca Di Marzio
Gianluca Di Marzio’s career began in television network Venetian Telenuovo. He later joined the editorial staff of Sky Sports, where he was appointed commentator for the Serie A and Champions League matches.
Di Marzio has been one of the most reliable Twitter accounts with respect to the transfer updates.
You can follow him here: @DiMarzio
#7
Gary Winston Lineker is an English former footballer and current sports broadcaster. Lineker represented Leicester City, Everton, Barcelona and Tottenham Hotspur as a striker. He holds England's record for most goals in FIFA world cup finals, with 10 goals.
Lineker's media career began with the BBC, where he has presented the flagship programme Match of the Day since the late 1990s.
Gary Lineker was involved in a Twitter row after he rubbished claims that he would be warned by BBC over foul-mouthed tweets.
He also gets involved in some banter and posts some funny tweets on Twitter from time to time.
You can follow him here: @GaryLineker
#8 Gary Neville
Gary Neville is a former Manchester United and England player. Since retiring from football in the middle of the 2010/11 season, Neville has gone into punditry and is a commentator for Sky Sports.
Neville has regularly been praised for his well-researched and neutral analysis, and he is now regarded as one of the best football pundits on British television.
Former Premier League players Gary Neville and Stan Collymore were involved in a Twitter spat following Diego Costa's controversial booking for a dive during Chelsea's 3-1 win at Burnley. Neville, claimed that every player had gone to ground to win a foul in the Premier League era.
Collymore, now a commentator, challenged Neville to find footage of him diving - promising to quit broadcasting if he managed it.
Here is a video when Gary Neville was booked for diving!
You can follow him here: @GNev2
#9 Raphael Honigstein
Raphael Honigstein is the English football correspondent for the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung, and German football correspondent for the British newspaper The Guardian and the UK radio broadcast TalkSPORT.
Honigstein regularly appears on the Guardian Podcast Football Weekly and BT Sport television programme Sunday Night Football, both hosted by James Richardson, where he gives updates on German football.
He has also worked as a German football expert for Sky Sports, alongside host Alan Mclnally, and on Setanta's coverage of the Bundesliga. He has also appeared on The Friday Football Show on Setanta, and on Setanta Sports news, discussing German football.
Raphael Honigstein says Pepe Reina may not get to play for Bayern till Neuer is in the side.
You can follow him here: @honigstein
#10 Iain Macintosh
Iain Macintosh writes about football for numerous publications in Asia, USA and the UK and is one of the Football 50 – the top football writers on Twitter according to TEAMtalk.
He is the author of the book ‘Football Manager Stole My Life’ – a book on why people are obsessed with the game.
Some of Macintosh’s humorous tweets:
When Mario Balotelli’s performance was below par:
Post Mesut Ozil injury!
When Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho pushed and shoved.
You can follow him here: @iainmacintosh
