The Athletic: Football News

Love The Athletic but when I tap on suggested stories at the bottom of an article it launches an external browser which tells me I have to subscribe, rather than keeping me within the Athletic app where I’m subscribed and can read Athletic articles. This leads to a curious situation where I’ll see a piece I want to read at the bottom of the piece I just finished and instead of tapping it I have to go to the search function to get the app to actually open it up. I know my app is out of date because I’m on an older OS but this is pretty frustrating for a subscriber

Great sports news platform with in depth reports on teams and matches. Thoughtful opinion pieces and charming stories. Well worth the subscription.

Took the Athletic up on a cut price trial. I was never able to get access or able to cancel the subscription. Contacted The Athletic, they said it was not their issue as I must have signed up through Apple. Contacted Apple, no subscription their. No subscription under Apple ID, but yet monthly fee still being charged. As no resolution and fee still being charged, I think I will have to request new bank cards (CVC) to stop the charge. Well played ‘The Athletic’.

ITS, VERY GOOD GET IT

Finest sports writing this side of the black stump. Only wish they’d fix App icon colour change on iPad.

In the past week the app has started sending me dozens of Football Manager story notifications every single day. I have zero interest in this and there is no way in the notifications settings to turn it off. You clearly have a sponsorship deal with them and are trying to push the sponsored content hard. But it’s a good way to get your app deleted and subscription cancelled.

Still my go-to sports site. Mostly subscribed because of DGB, Duhatschek, Habs coverage & ability to jump into local coverage for cities in (primarily) NHL, NBA. The Athletic seemed to have hired the best local writers for their teams. The 1st 3 still great but Mtl site had 4 writers now 1 (Basu is excellent) & 3/4(?) of the teams no longer have a beat writer. This site is 25% of what appealed to me when I subscribed.

I absolutely love and support what The Athletic stands for, high quality sports journalism. I support this type of presentation of sports news so I obviously pay for a subscription. What I do not support is ads in my app when I already pay for the subscription. This is not a business model that I can support so I will be continuing to use the web version with an adblocker until the app removes ads for paid subscribers. Please consider what you want your paid tier to represent to sports fans.

I’m a huge sports guy and following everything Nba to trnnis to prem. A long time ESPN guy, I reluctantly gave the athletic a trial. Turned out I loved it and now my first go to when I turn on my phone. Just amazing analyses, feature pieces on the various sports. Now includes grand slam tennis coverage which is great! Keep up the great work

The app overall is fantastic - enjoying the EPL coverage and the Talk of the Devils Podcast the most. Could you PLEASE bring back the font size setting within the articles within the app (appears disabled from v.13.27.0? I purposefully adjust the font size on the fly within the Athletic app depending on the reading environment (e.g. in the dark with lowest light setting whilst putting the little one to sleep!), and don’t necessarily want this to mirror my broader OS settings. Thanks!