Interview with Tomasz Mortimer

On September 6, 2017, Hungarian football journalist Tomasz Mortimer vowed to watch a football match every single day for the next 365 days. Then, he actually did it. Zach Lowy talks to Tomasz about his ambitious project.

ZL: Why did you do this project in the first place?

TM: Basically, it was the international break, just like now and there was barely anything on but Hungarian football so I tweeted out something sarcastic like “at least I’ve got to watch some type of football tonight, NBI’s on” and my mate replied back saying, “do you think it’s possible to watch a game every day for a year?” and I said, “I think so, I might try it” and that was it. It was off a whim, I didn’t really think about it. I just wrote the thread and I was off.

ZL: So you thought it was more or less a joke first?