When I say no one I mean your average sports fan. I’m no media expert but,as much as the next guy, when work’s quiet I’ll trawl through most of the broadsheets online and have a skim through the red tops, have a look at sky and the bbc, read forums of sports I’m really into etc etc. So on that basis it seems to me as though this website is very niche but I’m not here to decry The Athletic, just the notion that a guy who’s been recruited by them has any more credibility than any other journo. Of the ones you mentioned I have Taylor down as a pretentious wanker, Kay is ok, Honigstein mediocre - does he offer great insight or is he merely conveniently bi lingual.
I’m sure you’ve been abroad before, and therefore know that most German, French, Dutch, Spanish etc etc natives have a pretty good grasp of the English Language. As such I am sure he is more than just “continently bi lingual”.