Education
University of Exeter.
University of Exeter.
After studying Politics at Exeter University he discovered his love for writing. His first book, When Friday Comes: Football in the War Zone (Mainstream) follows his travels across the Middle East, visiting some of the most difficult countries in that area and looking at the relationship between football and politics. A heavily revised second edition was published in May 2013.
He is a freelance journalist, writing for the likes of the New York Times, Cable News Network and World Soccer and can also be heard regularly on the British Broadcasting Corporation World Service"s award winning World Football podcast.
His second book, Thirty One Nil: On The Road With Football"s Outsiders, a World Cup Odyssey, was published by Bloomsbury in May 2014. The book was named Football Book of the Year at the 2015 British Sports Book of the Year Awards.