"The Athletic" launches in the UK | About to be bought by NYT for $550m (p 32)

[decmancity]

Yesterday, The Athletic offered me a year's subscription for £19.99, and having read a few articles - and enjoyed them - I decided to take the plunge.

The one about Eric Garcia was very informative, as was today’s on Jack Harrison and I will be going back to their previous pieces on City players.

I’m also a fan of American football, though much more casual than I am City or even football in general, so I will have a look at some of their gridiron stuff too.

How did you get it for £19.99 or was it just a random offer via the app?

 

[Cobra]

If you download the app and put an email address in then you can read two free articles. And then if you delete the app and reinstall and put in a different email address you can read two more. Repeat ad infinitum. And you never have to verify your email address so you could just stick in whatever you like.

 

[cheekybids]

Have they covered the scout 7 / hacking scandal? If they don’t that tells you all you need to know.

Until then I’m out.

 

[Vienna_70]

How did you get it for £19.99 or was it just a random offer via the app?

The offer was there in my email inbox when I got up on Tuesday morning.

 

[Vienna_70]

If you download the app and put an email address in then you can read two free articles. And then if you delete the app and reinstall and put in a different email address you can read two more. Repeat ad infinitum. And you never have to verify your email address so you could just stick in whatever you like.

I think you can read two articles free of charge each month.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Word is they are already struggling on the take up. Discounts being rolled out.

 

[domalino]

Word is they are already struggling on the take up. Discounts being rolled out.

Haven't seen any discounts except the ones they launched with?

 

[Tugay One Cup]

Haven't seen any discounts except the ones they launched with?

I accidentally signed up for a year when I overran my free trial but the content is above everything else so I'm not going to complain.

I did get told by a colleague, however, that Tifo were offering discount codes but I thought that was just standard procedure for these types of sites.

 

[KCblue]

I've enjoyed it quite well thus far. Only had the subscription for a couple of weeks but beats reading the tabloid sites that make my eyes bleed with all the ridiculous ads.

 

[kippaxwarrior]

Another good article this morning about the decline of Joe Hart and if he can turn it around