Ste McGovern

Ste McGovern is an experienced football editor, writer and podcaster, who has been part of The Football Faithful team since the site’s early period. A Freelance football writer, Ste has bylines for the Manchester Evening News, BirminghamLive, MARCA, Balls.ie and the Nottingham Post.

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Rock bottom: Ireland’s worst qualifier defeats in recent history

How do you know when you’ve reached your lowest point? The Republic of Ireland’s 1-0 defeat to Luxembourg at home feels like a nadir…

29/03/2021

Tweets of the Week: DCL’s shin pads, football clubs as biscuits, Pro Evo coffee

The funniest football tweets of the week, featuring the mystery of what Dominic Calvert-Lewin uses for shin pads, what biscuit best represents your football…

28/03/2021

FPL Podcast: Is it time to move on from Salah, Bruno and… Man City?

The international break means a week off for Fantasy Premier League managers, but we’re still hard at work delivering the podcast for you ahead…

25/03/2021

Back down to Earth: The worst ever Premier League title defences by points difference

In 2019/20, Liverpool ended their thirty year wait for the Premier League when they topped the table in emphatic fashion, racking up the second…

24/03/2021

PL Stats Crunch: Arsenal’s magic number, Spurs bounce back, Leeds finally win in London

As we do every week, we crunch the standout statistics from the past seven days of Premier League action and see what they mean. …

22/03/2021

Premier League Weekly Awards: Messi Lingard, comeback carnage, ‘cute’ Kane’s dive

Our weekly Premier League awards honour the best – and worst – of the football action from the weekend. Moment of the Week We’ve…

22/03/2021

The best of the weekend’s FA Cup quarter-final action: Fred’s howler, Quadruple in sight, Saints march on

You may moan and groan about the FA Cup interrupting your regularly scheduled Premier League action, but the quarter-final weekend offered up some quite…

22/03/2021

The best League of Ireland kits we’ll see in the 2021 season

The League of Ireland is finally back after the longest offseason in living memory, which means we have a raft of new kits to…

21/03/2021

Tweets of the Week: Jailed manager topples Spurs, Lewandowski channels his inner Michael Jordan

The funniest football tweets of the week, featuring Tottenham Hotspur’s humiliating exit from the Europa League, John Stones, Robert Lewandowski, and Trent Alexander-Arnold’s sense…

21/03/2021

Ranking the final eight teams remaining in the UEFA Champions League

The draw for the quarter-finals and semi-finals of the Champions League have thrown up some intriguing ties and potential matchups for the business end…

20/03/2021