Chief Football Writer Daniel Taylor has left the Guardian and Observer after 19 years to join subscription sports website The Athletic.
The Manchester-based journalist has been has been in his current position with the newspaper for seven of those 19 years.
Today he tweeted: “Today is – gulp – my last day at the Guardian/Observer. It’s been lovely – bloody hell, 19 years, seven as chief football writer, five World Cups … I will always be grateful they took a chance on me.
“I will be back soon, possibly with a new Twitter pic. Thank you for reading!”
US-based The Athletic launched in the UK in August, with bold claims of having “the biggest team of football journalists ever assembled.”
The site launched in the US three years ago and has been raiding national and regional titles in the UK for sports journalism talent.
