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    • Brian Glanville
      • Brian Glanville

      • Brian Glanville is a FanHouse UK Columnist
      • Brian Glanville is the doyen of British football writers. He spent close to 30 years as football correspondent for The Sunday Times and has also written for The People, New Statesman, Sports Illustrated and World Soccer magazines. He is the author of dozens of novels, short-story collections, plays and screenplays - among them The Story of the World Cup, recognised as the definitive history of the tournament.
    • Ian Ridley
      • Ian Ridley

      • Ian Ridley is a FanHouse UK Columnist
      • Ian Ridley has written on sport for the Mail on Sunday, The Guardian, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph and the Independent on Sunday in a 30-year career in national newspapers. He was Sports Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards in 2007. On top of writing scripts for the Sky One football drama Dream Team, Ridley is also the author of eight books. They include the No. 1 bestseller Addicted, the auto-biography of Tony Adams, biographies of Eric Cantona and Kevin Keegan, along with two volumes with Steve Claridge - Tales from the Boot Camps and most recently Beyond the Boot Camps. Ridley's account of life as chairman of his home-town club Weymouth FC is documented in Floodlit Dreams.
    • Scott Murray
      • Scott Murray

      • Scott Murray is a FanHouse UK Columnist
      • Scott Murray writes about football, golf and occasionally the media for guardian.co.uk, where he was once the sports editor before opting for the more sedentary lifestyle of the freelancer. He also pens the FourFourTwo diary, and has written three books: Day of the Match, Football for Dummies, and Phantom of the Open, an upcoming biography of Maurice Flitcroft, the most useless pro golfer in history.
    • Alastair Campbell
      • Alastair Campbell

      • Alastair Campbell chronicled Burnley's 2009-10 Premier League campaign for FanHouse UK
      • Alastair Campbell is best known for his role as Tony Blair’s spokesman, press secretary and director of communications. Still active in Labour politics, he now splits his time between writing, speaking, charitable fundraising, politics and campaigns. After a stint at Eddy Shah's Today newspaper as news editor where he had a nervous breakdown in the mid 1980s, Campbell returned to The Mirror where he started his career, rising to become political editor. He was subsequently asked by Mr Blair to be his press secretary. He and his partner, Fiona, have three children. Since then, he was communications adviser to the British and Irish Lions rugby tour of New Zealand in 2005. Passionate about sport, he has written about different sports for The Times, The Irish Times and Esquire magazine. He has also raised funds for Burnley FC, a team he has supported since the age of four. His charity projects have involved playing football with both Diego Maradona and Pele.
    • Simon Kuper
      • Simon Kuper

      • Simon Kuper reported on the 2010 World Cup for FanHouse UK
      • Simon Kuper writes a weekly sports column in the Financial Times newspaper. He is British, lives in Paris, and is the author of Football Against the Enemy (winner of the William Hill prize for Sports Book of the Year 1994), Ajax, The Dutch, The War: Football in Europe During the Second World War (2003), and – as co-author with Stefan Szymanski - Why England Lose: And Other Curious Football Phenomena Explained (2009). That book appeared in North America as Soccernomics.
    • J.P. Shaw
      • J.P. Shaw

      • J.P. Shaw is a FanHouse UK columnist
      • J.P. Shaw is a sports journalist with a special specialisation in betting. He is a published author - of the Stan Bowles autobiography and the hilarious Raymond Delauney emails, which according to a recent survey, 67 per cent of Britons named as their favourite humour book. This is surprising, because the survey asked, “Are you happy with your homeowners' insurance?” He is also a former Sports Editor at AOL and Virgin Media.
  • Writers

    • Ian Whittell
      • Ian Whittell

      • Ian Whittell is a Writer for FanHouse
      • Ian Whittell has been covering football for national newspapers for more than 20 years and is a regular contributor to The Observer, The Guardian and The Times. He spends his time analysing the fortunes of the Premier League's northern clubs, including Manchester United, Liverpool and Manchester City.
    • Ian Edwards
      • Ian Edwards

      • Ian Edwards is a Writer for FanHouse
      • Ian Edwards is a former Daily Mirror football reporter whose work is now regularly published in a number of national newspapers. His Midlands remit will see him cover the seasons enjoyed by Premier League newcomers Birmingham and Wolves as well as Europa League contenders Aston Villa.
    • Andrew Fifield
      • Andrew Fifield

      • Andrew Fifield is a Writer for FanHouse
      • Andrew Fifield has been covering the Premier League since 2003. He has reported extensively for the English national daily and Sunday newspapers and is a columnist for the London Evening Standard, The Irish Times and Irish Examiner newspapers. He covers London clubs, including Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham.
    • Neil Johnston
      • Neil Johnston

      • Neil Johnston is a Writer for FanHouse
      • Neil Johnston has been a sportswriter all his working life, writing for a wide range of newspapers in the UK and abroad, and currently covers all eight Premier League clubs in the northwest - from Manchester United and Liverpool to Wigan and Burnley.
    • John Wardle
      • John Wardle

      • John Wardle is a Writer for FanHouse
      • John Wardle has been a freelance sportswriter for longer than he cares to remember. He has written for every newspaper in the UK and many from abroad and reckons to have reported on more than 2,500 games at all levels.
    • Jeremy Cross
      • Jeremy Cross

      • Jeremy Cross is a Writer for FanHouse
      • Jeremy Cross has been writing on the Premier League since 1998. He has reported extensively for the English national daily and Sunday newspapers and has also covered games across Europe. He covers Yorkshire and the north west clubs.
    • Robert Galster
      • Robert Galster

      • Robert Galster is the FanHouse UK Editor
      • Robert Galster started his journalism career as a general news reporter in Vancouver, Canada. Since then he spent six years as the Online Sports Editor at The Times where he also developed PlayTheGame, the award-winning fantasy football game. After leaving The Times, he embarked on a freelance career that took in the Telegraph Media Group and The Associated Press. He now edits FanHouse UK.
    • Ian Winrow
      • Ian Winrow

      • Ian Winrow is a Writer for FanHouse
      • Ian Winrow has covered the English Premier League since 1998 and has written for every English national newspaper. Previously based in Manchester, he now works in the southeast where he covers Chelsea, Arsenal and other London clubs.
    • Jason Mellor
      • Jason Mellor

      • Jason Mellor is a Writer for FanHouse
      • Jason Mellor has spent five years at the coal-face of evening and regional newspapers as a sports reporter covering Lincoln City, Newcastle United and Sunderland. Originally from Yorkshire, he has been a freelance sportswriter since 2001 for a variety of national titles both at home and abroad, ranging from The Times to the Hindustan Times.
    • Jon West
      • Jon West

      • Jon West is a Writer for FanHouse
      • Jon West has been writing about football since 1996, when he saw Barnsley promoted to the Premier League for the first, and so far only, time. In 2005 he repeated the favour for Reading after spending five years sending dispatches from Moldova, Faroe Islands and Stenhousemuir as the Press Association's chief football writer in Scotland. If there is a major newspaper he hasn't been published in he can't think of it, making him the most famous sportswriter you have never heard of.

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