Expert bloggers on Yahoo! Eurosport

Early Doors

Early Doors knows little of the world outside the Eurosport office, having been chained to its desk and forced to subsist on a thin gruel of UHT milk and cardboard. It cares little for football itself, preferring to focus on the childish histrionics and self-regarding largesse of those involved in the game. Its primary interests are training-ground bust-ups, Baby Bentleys and deluded chairmen. Like many Premier League players, Early Doors refers to itself only in the third person.

Armchair Pundit

Alex Chick spent the World Cup pontificating from the comfort of his own front room, and will continue rambling about football from the dark recesses of the Eurosport office. Not so much Armchair Pundit as Swivel Chair Pundit. He has been Deputy Managing Editor at Eurosport-Yahoo! since 2007, although it took him until last week to work out how to use the photocopier.

Jim White

An award-winning columnist with the Daily Telegraph for which he has covered all the world’s major sporting events – Jim is well known and highly regarded in all parts of the media. A long-serving contributor to Radios 4 and 5, he consistently appears on BBC television and Sky for which he has recently written, and presented, documentaries on Jose Mourinho and Sven-Goran Eriksson. He is the author of the best-selling You"ll Win Nothing With Kids, the memoir of his time as a wholly unsuccessful junior football coach.

Paul Parker

Paul Parker enjoyed a distinguished career for club and country. The versatile defender won 19 England caps and played the 1990 World Cup semi-final against West Germany. After spells at Fulham and QPR, Paul joined Manchester United in 1991, where he helped the club claim their first league title for 26 years, and won the Double twice. During six seasons at Old Trafford, he played with legends such as Eric Cantona, Roy Keane and David Beckham.

Arsene Wenger

Arsene Wenger is widely regarded as one of the world"s best managers. He is the most successful manager in the history of Arsenal, having been in charge of the Gunners since 1996. Before his time at North London he enjoyed considerable success at AS Monaco and Grampus Eight. Wenger, who is fluent in French, German and English and also speaks Italian, Spanish and Japanese, has an encyclopedic knowledge of the world game.

Andy Mitten

Andy Mitten - whose great uncle Charlie Mitten starred in Matt Busby’s first great side - is a regular writer for FourFourTwo and his other credits include The Independent, The Mail on Sunday, Sport, The Guardian, Esquire and GQ in the UK plus foreign publications around the world. He has visited 85 countries, covering games from Israel to the Faroes, Argentina to Australia and interviewed players like Villa, Ronaldinho, Xavi and Messi. He has written or co-written 10 books and is the Spanish football correspondent for The National newspaper in Abu Dhabi.

Desmond Kane

Desmond Kane began his career as a sports journalist in Dundee in the late 1990s as a regular contributor to national newspapers and magazines. Desmond has covered several sports at the highest level, including Champions League football and Major championship golf. Desmond is well travelled and well versed in the nuances of sport having written for Reuters, Australian Associated Press and the Press Association. He has lived and worked in Detroit, Glasgow, Sydney, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and London. Desmond returned from a spell working as a sports columnist in the Middle East to join Eurosport.

Never Mind The Ballacks

Andreas Evagora and Ian Holyman are key members of the Eurosport 2 Bundesliga team. Andreas is Eurosport 2"s deputy head; he plays a Lothar Matthaeus role, creating, organising and falling out with Juergen Klinsmann. Ian prefers to play the role of the maverick genius from the commentary box. He has been compared to Gunter Netzer, Paul Breitner and Carsten Jancker.

David Beckham

David Beckham is one of the most iconic athletes and decorated football players of all-time. He is the second most capped England player in history, scoring in three FIFA World Cups. At Manchester United he won the title six times, the FA Cup twice and the Champions League. At Real Madrid he won the Liga title, then moved to LA Galaxy in 2007 in a world record breaking five-year deal. Born in London, Beckham played a key part in securing the Olympic Games for 2012 and is also a Vice President of England"s bid to host the 2018 World Cup. Known as a key advocate of charity work, Beckham is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

Fantasy Football Blog

The Fantasist

The Fantasist is an expert, no, a guru, in all things Fantasy Football. It will dispense its wisdom throughout the season, unravelling the great mysteries of our time. Conundrums like "Aaron Hughes or Stephen Warnock?' and 'Where does Matty Taylor get all those points from?' During the barren summer months, The Fantasist satisfies its gaming needs by losing a small fortune at its local bingo hall. Consequently, it has a lot riding on Eurosport-Yahoo!'s £5 entry, winner-takes-all office league this season.

World of Sport

Fed up with predictable matches and dull press conference platitudes? You"ve come to the right place. World of Sport is a pick 'n' mix selection from the lighter side of sport. It provides a home for all those must-see video clips, from great goals to amazing blunders. You can also find quirky news stories, fun features and a spot of nostalgia, too.

Simon Reed

Simon Reed"s career began with BBC Radio in the late sixties when he worked for BBC Radio Sport, BBC World Service and BBC Radio London. From 1973, he was a presenter and reporter for Thames TV before freelancing in the early days of Sky Sports. In 1995, he became Head of Commentators for Eurosport specialising in tennis. He has covered three Olympic Games and has commentated on the last eight Wimbledon Championships.

Patrick Mouratoglou

For 15 years Patrick Mouratoglou has headed the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy, renowned as one of the most successful in producing future champions. The Academy has an impressive honour list with several junior world champions and players who have reached the world"s top 10. He has coached Marcos Baghdatis and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and wrote the book "Educate to Win". He currently coaches the French player Aravane Rezaï.

Tramlines

Tramlines spent its formative years living and breathing tennis, watching Yannick Noah berate line judges and admiring Steffi Graf"s backhand slice from the comfort of its couch at home. Nowadays, Tramlines can often be seen wearing Andre Agassi's old denim shorts, sleeping under its desk in an office with an overzealous air-con machine, whilst devouring punnets of strawberries and pints of Pimms in a bid to bring you the best of the world's tennis. It boasts a 100 per cent record against Alex Bogdanovic on clay and has a top-spin forehand frequently compared to that of the great MaliVai Washington.

Will Gray

Award-winning sports journalist Will Gray has worked in and around Formula One for more than a decade, providing detailed technical insight as well as live news reports and features for newspapers such as the Daily Telegraph and Daily Star, AFP and Reuters news agencies and a variety of magazines. He has also worked as an F1 expert on TalkSPORT and Irish radio.

Tony Carter

A former professional chef, Tony Carter switched careers in 1994 and as has tested motocross, GP500s, WSB and BSB machines around the world. Tony started work for Eurosport as a World Superbikes expert for its studio broadcasts before quickly progressing to becoming the channel’s main presenter for both British and World Superbikes across its live coverage. He has an encyclopaedic knowledge of all types of racing and has an unrivalled contacts book in all motorcycle paddocks.

Cow Corner

Cow Corner had a sheltered upbringing - it was educated from home and forfeited text books for hardback copies of Wisden Almanack with the only visual stimulation being the John Player League. "Cowers" is the illegitimate sibling of Early Doors and can often be seen on park benches around St John"s Wood trying to sell signed copies of Colin Dredge’s autobiography. Cow has been known to bowl some military medium whilst wielding the long handle at the bottom of the order and answers to one God and one God only, that known as Benaud.

Oval Talk

Rugby has to fight for its voice in the football-obsessed world of British sport, but thankfully there are enough fans of the oval ball to warrant a weekly look at issues affecting the game. Oval Talk cannot promise the same level of scurrilous tittle-tattle and unfounded rumour that emerges daily from football columns, but with ever-increasing professionalism and year-on-year growth in Premiership attendances, rugby now offers the kind of debate that would have had old farts at HQ spluttering into their Fullers. Oval Talk casts off it Barbour and adopts the refreshing candour of an Aussie commentator.

Bunker Mentality

From the top of the golfing tree to the grubby roots of the game which bind us all together, Bunker Mentality will be there: It’ll tees up slices of news, and send them fizzing back down the neatly-trimmed fairway of opinion with more punch than a Tiger 2-iron stinger, more spin than a Mickelson wedge – and more bottle than John Daly.

Blazin' Saddles

Ever since he was bullied by his brothers into watching the Tour de France as an eight-year-old, Blazin" Saddles has been a cycling fanatic. As persistent as Voigt, as fast as Abdoujaparov, as voracious as Ullrich and as accurate as a Festina watch, Blazin' Saddles offers a lighter take on the oft-grave world of professional cycling. The self-styled best cycling-blog pedlar in the business, BS refutes sullied claims of doping levelled by his rivals: these nuggets are powered on Gerolsteiner fizzy water alone. Just ask BS's friend Bernhard Kohl for a reference.

Surf Diary

35-year-old French journalist Jean-Patrick Mothes is living by the ocean in his beloved city of Bayonne in the heart of the Basque Country. For 10 years now, JiPi? has been filming and analysing the professional Surfing World Tour. He is now covering the ASP World Tour for Eurosport 2 with the Daily Surf Report: a daily 10 minutes highlights programme.