Dom Smith

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Dom Smith is a Football Reporter for The Standard, covering London football and the England men’s and women’s national teams. Dom covers Crystal Palace, Fulham and Brentford particularly closely, and has reported on tennis at Wimbledon. In 2023, the same year he joined The Standard, Dom was named Hugh McIlvanney Student Football Writer of the Year by the Football Writers’ Association. Before joining The Standard, Dom founded the website EnglandFootball.org and was a freelance football writer, in which he wrote for the likes of The Guardian, The New Statesman, and The Times.... MORE

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Dom Smith is a Football Reporter for The Standard, covering London football and the England men’s and women’s national teams. Dom covers Crystal Palace, Fulham and Brentford particularly closely, and has reported on tennis at Wimbledon. In 2023, the same year he joined The Standard, Dom was named Hugh McIlvanney Student Football Writer of the Year by the Football Writers’ Association. Before joining The Standard, Dom founded the website EnglandFootball.org and was a freelance football writer, in which he wrote for the likes of The Guardian, The New Statesman, and The Times.

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