Fourteen years of press boxes, and I still prefer the cheap seats

I’m Quang. I started on the sports desk of a Hà Nội daily in 2012, covering the youth matches nobody else wanted. Since then I’ve reported from eight countries in the region, mostly from the back of a bus.

The Back Four began in 2022 as a letter to forty friends. It is still free, still written on Saturday night, and still one long read plus whatever I couldn’t fit.