Tom watt

Sports broadcaster

What was your football highlight of 2024?
1400 in the away end at Stevenage hoping to see Cheltenham Town pull off a miracle and stay up. Sadly, it ended in tears....

Either on the pitch, or behind the scenes working in football, who is your person of 2024 and why?
Every ref turning out for Saturday and Sunday morning football... We've got a crisis going on.

Who in football would you like to give a Christmas present to and what would you gift them?
For personal and sentimental reasons, I’d like to give Tony Kleanthous planning permission to take Barnet back to Barnet.

Who in the world of football should be on Santa’s naughty list and why?
Gianni Infantino. What does him being where he is say about where football's headed?

If you could make one change to football in 2025, to improve the way the game is played or governed, what would that change be and why?
Can I only have one? Guess it's too late to put VAR back in the bottle, so it's a toss up between getting shot of parachute payments and instituting 3 up /3 down between League 2 & the National League.

Off the field, what are going to be football’s main talking points in 2025?
Oh there'll be at least 115 of them...

Thomas Tuchel was recently appointed England’s men’s team manager, can he deliver the World Cup success the English fans so desperately crave?
I think it’ll be the players who need to do that. The England Manager Conversation invariably says more about us than it does about him, and takes positions which actually don't have much to do with football at all....