The Spitfire’s mission is to provide dedicated, independent coverage to Kent’s flagship sporting institution and we’ll be joining the Counter Press stable for the 2026 season as they look to revitalise coverage of the county game.

The editor is Fred Atkins, who has covered Kent for the past five years and followed them for the last 30. Previously a sports editor for the Kent Messenger, Fred has also worked for the Associated Press and is currently the Kent correspondent for both the ECB Reporters Network and Wisden. He has written several books, including Monty Panesar’s autobiography “The Full Monty” and “The Spitfire Diaries,” a journal of the 2021 season, when Kent emerged from the COVID lockdow to win the Vitality Blast.

The Spitfire will provide old-school, long-form journalism: news, features, reports, interviews and an ongoing diary that you will not find elsewhere. It will all be human generated and so it will not appear “on the whistle”.

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