Ellie Hartley

Ellie files the matchday copy: Saturday three o'clocks, the Tuesday night rearrangements, the 2-2 draws that decide a season in April. She came up through local radio and still writes like someone with sixty seconds to describe a goal, verbs first, adjectives if there's room. She will tell you what the substitution changed, not just that it happened, and she has a weakness for a goalkeeper having the game of his life.