Alex Finnis

Freelance writer and editor

United Kingdom

I'm a freelance journalist and copywriter. I'm The Telegraph's NFL correspondent, as well as an editor on their sports desk, and I also work covering news, sport and entertainment on The i's digital team, and as a copywriter for Redwood and Playbuzz.

Portfolio

NFL

The Telegraph
01/16/2019
Ryan Fitzpatrick interview: 'I wouldn't trade my career for Tom Brady's'

The term 'journeyman quarterback' is normally pejorative, used to put down players who find themselves air-mailed around the league to plug holes and keep sinking ships afloat. Try telling that to Ryan Fitzpatrick. Journeyman is the perfect word to describe Fitzpatrick, but not because he's some kind of forgettable placeholder.

The Telegraph
11/08/2019
The alternative NFL mid-season awards 2019

Every year the NFL dishes out the same old awards. MVP (for which the debate starts roughly 15 minutes into week one and keeps rumbling on - not at all tiresomely!!! - until January), Offensive Player of the Year (which is just MVP again), Defensive Player of the Year (Aaron Donald) and so on.

The Telegraph
10/06/2019
Tottenham treated to NFL thriller as Oakland Raiders edge past Chicago Bears

The Raiders opened the scoring with the very first play of the second quarter. Jacobs broke two tackles with a powerful run off the left edge and dived in for a 12-yard score - hopefully the first of many at the Tottenham Stadium. The Bears' defense's only saving grace is that the offense was worse.

Copywriting

Virgin Media
IT Chapter Two - buy now on the Virgin Media Store

As the sequel arrives on the Virgin Media Store, here's everything you should know about IT Chapter Two as the gang return to Derry to face their greatest fears once again... Bill Hader steals the show as a grown-up Richie, but every recasting is absolutely on point.

Virgin Media
Richard Hammond's BIG on Discovery

Hammond will explore the supersize structures that have floated, flown, burrowed and powered their way into the record books, and reveal what makes them tick and how they work at such an extreme scale.

Brands
03/01/2019
QUIZ: Which Game of Thrones quote sums up your life?

'That's what I do: I drink and I know things.' If you've ever watched Game of Thrones, there'll be at least one character you love and (probably loads more) that you hate. It's because the characters are so relatable - well, if you ignore the army of dead ice people and dragons.

BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed
23 Pictures That Won't Make Sense If You're An Only Child

1. When you say you're getting in the shower but your sibling's like: "Nope, I'm showering first!" 2. When you have to get into a full-on war for the front seat every single car journey. 3. Except when you both have to sit in the back, and then there's this problem.

BuzzFeed
22 Pictures That Prove Drunk You Is The Absolute Worst

1. Drunk you should never be allowed in the kitchen. 2. Especially when it involves using any "utensils". 3. Drunk you gives the worst gifts. 5. Drunk you is an asshole to the delivery guy. 10. Drunk you has terrible taste in food. 22. But more than anything, drunk you is just a massive, massive idiot.

BuzzFeed
23 Pictures That Prove You're Actually Really Good At Life

1. You are not perfect, but as human beings go, you're actually relatively successful, because you have never worn a Fleshlight as a sock. 2. Or used ground mince to apply for a job. 3. Everything is fine, because you've never dropped Santa through your own ceiling. 7.