Apr 26, 2021
Gabriele Marcotti is the World Football Correspondent for The Times and UK correspondent for Corriere dello Sport. He is also a columnist for Sports Illustrated and his work appears regularly in La Stampa and the Sunday Herald. He now co-hosts the weekly 606 programme on BBC Radio Five Live as well as being a regular pundit on the same channel. His books include The Italian Job: A Journey to the Heart of Two Great Footballing Cultures, co-written with Gianluca Vialli, which was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award in 2006. His book Capello: Portrait of a Winner (Bantam Books), was described by Simon Kuper as ‘the book Marcotti was born to write’. Marcotti also co-authored with Alberto Polverosi a biography of Ranieri and Paolo Di Canio’s biography. Most recently, Marcotti worked with Gianluca Vialli on his personal and inspiring book, GOALS, which Headline published in June 2020. He lives in London.
Apr 29, 2026
Andy McGrath is one of Britain’s leading cycling writers and an award-winning freelance journalist. Previously the editor of Rouleur magazine, one of the leading titles in the sport, he has also worked at Cycling Weekly and Cycle Sport, and written about cycling for the Guardian, the Telegraph and the New York Times. Among his several books, he is the author of Tom Simpson: Bird on the Wire (Rapha, 2017), which won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and God is Dead: The Rise and Fall of Frank Vandenbroucke (Transworld, 2022), shortlisted for the same prize. His latest book is Unstoppable, a biography of modern cycling great Tadej Pogačar (Bloomsbury, 2025). He has also made films about cycling for GCN+.
Apr 26, 2021
Jane McLelland is the author of the international bestseller How To Starve Cancer Without Starving Yourself which she self-published in September 2018. The book has been translated into several languages and has proven to be a life-saver for thousands of people receiving treatment. Part memoir and part guide, Jane has developed a unique route map which shows which “fuel pipelines” feed every type of cancer. She is a living testament to the success of her protocol having survived Stage IV lung cancer. Jane is the mother of two boys and lives with her husband in West London
Apr 26, 2021
John McManus is a writer and academic based in Ankara, Turkey. He writes about the Middle East, sport, migration and popular culture, especially in Turkey and Qatar. He is the author of Welcome to Hell? In Search of the Real Turkish Football (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018), awarded runner-up in the 2019 British-Kuwaiti Friendship Society book prize, the annual prize of the British Society of Middle East Studies. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Washington Post and BBC, as well as academic journals. John holds a PhD in Anthropology from Oxford University. He is currently a visiting fellow at Qatar University Gulf Studies Center and an honorary research fellow at the British Institute at Ankara.
Website: www.johnmcmanus.co.uk
Twitter: @JohnMcManus06
Apr 26, 2021
Nigel Mitchell has a clinical and sport career spanning almost 20 years. At the 2008 Beijing Olympiad the Olympic British Cycling team became the most successful British Olympic team of all time. His role involves leading and providing specialist nutritional service to British Cycling. Additionally he has had previous responsibility for the development and quality assurance of performance nutrition services to sports in the north of England, this has included helping to establish performance nutrition services to the Royal Yacht Association and British Swimming. His title, Fuelling the Cycling Revolution: The Nutritional Strategies and Recipes Behind Grand Tour Wins and Olympic Gold Medals, was published in June 2017 (Bloomsbury).
Recent Comments