About
Football Further is a website about football in England and France, as well as a depository for the work produced in a professional capacity by its author. It is a member of the Guardian Sport Network.
Tom Williams
I’m a sport reporter for the Agence France-Presse international news agency. After four years in Paris, I moved to London in October 2012 to lead AFP’s coverage of English football.
As a French football specialist, I’ve been interviewed several times on BBC Radio 5 Live, usually concerning the wildly oscillating fortunes of the French national team, and I’ve also appeared on the BBC World Service, BBC News 24, BBC London, talkSPORT, Sky Sports News Radio,The Guardian Football Weekly podcast, and France 24 (follow link for video).
Aside from my full-time work with AFP, I’ve written for websites including ESPN FC, ITV Sport, Yahoo! Eurosport, When Saturday Comes, Ligue1.com, and the Betfair blog.
Contact
Email: tom.williams[at]afp[dot]com | Twitter | LinkedIn
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The opinions expressed here are my own and not those of my employer. Header image © Hans van der Meer. Background image shows seats at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City (© Tom Williams).
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i am looking to do my coaching badges in northern ireland but dont know where to do them or how to find out about it, any help would be greatly appreciated
Hi Michael. I think your best bet would be to contact the Irish Football Association: http://www.irishfa.com/the-ifa/get-into-football/
Hi Tom,
I’m an avid reader of Football Further and decided recently to set up a related blog. I admit the name’s terrible and the aesthetic could be better, but I hope the writing’s passable.
Cheers!
Will
Cheers Will. Looks like you’ve got some good stuff there. Will do my best to check out what you’re doing whenever I get a chance.
Ahhh… the link… http://footballinfranceisrubbish.blogspot.com/
I’d like to learn a bit of French before going to watch a game later this season. I’m struggling to find a book or course which might help. Can you suggest anything?
Hi Matthew. I don’t know about books or courses, but this page from Wikibooks – a list of French football phrases translated into English – is quite handy: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/French_For_Football/Phrase_Book
Thanks Tom. I’m trying to learn 10 phrases a day ready for a trip to see Caen play at the end of the month. The wiki phrase book is really useful.
Is there any way to subscribe to your site via email?
Thanks.
Rafael
Hello,
Congratulations for being named in the list of 100 blogs to follow in 2011. Well done and well deserved!
Thanks Christoph.
Hi Tom,
Im a big fan of the blog and as a relatively new blogger I can appreciate all the work that’s gone into it. Is there any chance that you would be interested in doing a link exchange with my football blog http://thetrueball.com/.
Im pretty sure the content is fairly interesting but I’m having a lot of trouble promoting it.
Thanks and regards
JP
Hi Tom,
I’m compiling a list of global football blogs and trying to pick up a wide spectrum of leagues, competitions, perspectives and writing styles in doing so – http://www.sportinglybetter.com/blogs/
Do you have any writers or blogs you think I should be including or giving a special mention to?
Thanks for your input.
Patrick