Career
He is an award-winning journalist who spearheaded the Coventry Telegraph"s #bringCityhome campaign in the summer of 2014. The campaign resulted in Coventry City F.C."s return to the city following their exile at Sixfields in Northampton and drew praise from national media and figures within the football world. The campaign also resulted in Gilbert becoming the only regional newspaper journalist in the country to be shortlisted in the Sports Journalist of the Year category at the 2014 British Journalism Awards.
His work was praised in the House of Commons by then Coventry North East Member of Parliament Bob Ainsworth and the Member of Parliament for Folkestone and Hythe, Damian Collins.
He is also a regular contributor to the Daily Mirror. In September 2014, Gilbert broke a national exclusive which reported English Premiership rugby union side Wasps Reconstruction Finance Corporation were in talks to permanently relocate to the Ricoh Arena, in Coventry, from their home at Adams Park, in High Wycombe.
