Our guest on this episode is The i Paper’s chief football writer, Daniel Storey, who has just completed an extraordinary project: visiting and reporting from all 92 Premier and EFL (English Football League) clubs in a single season. Seventeen-thousand miles, 80 interviews and nearly 200,000 words later, he has produced a portrait of English football that’s as much about people and place as it is about goals.

In this conversation, you'll hear Daniel explain how he convinced himself, and his editors, to take on the project, what he learned about football clubs and the vital civic role they perform in their towns, and how he views the future of local sports reporting. He also offers advice to young and early-career journalists hoping to break into the competitive world of sports reporting.

You can read Daniel's full "Doing the 92" series at inews.co.uk and follow him on X @danielstorey85

J-Lab is a podcast by the Civic Journalism Lab at Newcastle University