[6] At the Telegraph, Liew estimated he covered at least 39 sports on five different continents and developed a fondness for rugby league.
[15] Liew contributes columns to the cricket almanac Wisden[16] he has written for Prospect[17] and the Belfast Telegraph.
[22] On 31 October 2018, it was announced that Liew had been nominated in the "writer for the year" category at the 2018 Football Supporters Federation Awards.
[28] In December 2020, Liew was announced as being co-writer, with fellow Guardian sports journalist Barney Ronay, of The Red Zone, a Netflix comedy series centred around the world of football.
[31] He appeared as a contestant on the Channel 4 television quiz show Countdown in 2013, becoming an "octochamp" by winning eight episodes in a row.