Apr 16, 2021
Having come through the junior ranks at Kent, James Knott played professional cricket for MCC Young Cricketers, Surrey & Somerset for eight years between 1994 & 2001 making 24 appearance for Surrey’s 1st XI. Following on from that he played nine years of minor counties cricket for Bedfordshire, captaining for three of those. He made several appearances for the representative Minor Counties XI and also the ECB XI (England Amateurs) that won the European Championships in 2004.
As a coach James has been the Head of Cricket at Stowe School since 2004 finishing top of the national school’s cricket league twice, winning the Schools Arch Trophy twice and finishing runners up of the National T20 twice. Several pupils have gone on to play professional cricket in that time – Mark Nelson (Northants), Graeme White (Northants, Notts & England Lions), Ben Howgego (Northants), with the most high-profile being Ben Duckett (Northants, Notts & England Test, ODI & T20i). Several others have gone onto MCCU programmes at Loughborough, Cambridge, Oxford & Durham, as well to play mi nor counties cricket. Current pupil at the school – James Cronie – is on the Northants Academy and represented the Midlands at the Bunbury Festival and the Super 4’s, and is currently training with the England u19s squad.
As a writer James has had several cricket articles published and one fictional short story.
Apr 16, 2021
Jessica Knowles is a free-spirited, nonconformist who displays a more active, more fulfilling, less conventional life and loves an adventure or two. She is also a primary school teacher. She isn’t a fitness fanatic or an Olympian, but she likes to lead an active life and is happiest eating her sarnies with an inspiring view in front of her.
Jessica has a published children’s book about her escapades with her dog (Adventures of Pepper the Ginger Dog), has been nominated for a UK Blog Award, worked with well-known brands such as BBC News, Countryfile Live, Daily Mail and has been nominated by her class as the ‘funnest’ teacher to ever walk the earth. The last being her greatest achievement to date. She has an Instagram, YouTube and TikTok account, Dogventures, with a collective following of over 65,000 people. She runs a popular website called yourdogventures.com with stories about her time spent outdoors and adventure tips.
Website: https://www.yourdogventures.com
Instagram: @_Dogventures_
TikTok: @dogventures
Youtube: Dogventures
Apr 16, 2021
Mario Krischel started his writing career at Borussia Mönchengladbach and Schalke 04 and now works for Kicker, Germany’s most popular sports platform, covering European football from the Bundesliga to the Premier League to Bulgaria’s third division. He also regularly writes about basketball and American football. Most recently he worked with professional footballer Robin Gosens on his autobiography Robin Gosens – Träumen lohnt sich published by Edel in April 2021. He lives in Nuremburg.
Twitter: @m_krischel
Apr 16, 2021
Amy Lawrence has been writing about football since the early 1990s. She was the Observer’s deputy football correspondent for over a decade, and covered the game for the Guardian and the Observer until joining the Athletic in 2019. Amy has covered the Premier League, Champions League, continental football and attended several World Cups and European Championships. She has also written a number of football books, mostly about her specialist subject of Arsenal, starting with Proud To Say That Name which was published in 1997. Since then, her study of Arsenal’s ‘Invincible’ team of 2003-4, which was based on in depth interviews with the players, staff and Arsene Wenger, was well received. She also worked with Ray Parlour on his autobiography, and recently collaborated with the Arsenal photographer Stuart McFarlane to produce a photographic history of Arsene Wenger. She was awarded ‘Football Writer of the Year’ in 2014 by the Football Supporters Federation and ‘Journalist of the Year’ by Women In Football in 2016. Her most recent book 89 was published by Century in 2019. She also worked as the producer on a documentary of the same subject, entitled ‘89, which was released by Universal Studios.
Twitter: @amylawrence71
Apr 16, 2021
Martin Lipton has had a 25-year-career as a journalist including being Chief Football Writer for the Press Association, Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, covering England at five World Cups and four European Championships plus reporting at Wimbledon, the Ryder Cup, Test and World Cup cricket and two Olympic Games. A graduate of Oxford University, he has also been an active Spurs supporter since attending his first game in 1972. He is now the Deputy Head of Sport at The Sun and his book White Hart Lane: The Glory Years 1899-2017 was published by W&N in October 2017.
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