Career
A graduate of Cambridge University Dickinson worked for the Cambridge Evening News until he joined the Daily Express in 1991. Moving on to work for The Times in September 1997 he became football correspondent and then chief football correspondent in 2002. Dickinson was awarded the Young Sports Writer of the Year in 1993.
In 1999 he was responsible for conducting an interview with England manager, Glenn Hoddle which led to his resignation.
Hoddle had expressed controversial views on reincarnation and the disabled. In 2014 his book, "Bobby Moore, The Manitoba in Full", was published.