Mar 17, 2021
Rob Bagchi has worked on the sports desk at The Telegraph since 2013 as a writer and editor, mostly covering football and cricket. Before that he spent 11 years in a similar role at The Guardian, for whom he wrote a weekly sports column. He has also written for The Times, The Cricketer, Blizzard, The Nightwatchman and Cricket Monthly. Rob is the author of four sports books, including the Sunday Times sports bestseller, The Unforgiven: The Story of Don Revie’s Leeds United, published in 2002 and reissued in 2009 and 2012, Frank McLintock’s autobiography True Grit (Headline, 2005) and Norman Whiteside’s Determined (Headline, 2007). The Biography of Leeds United, was published by Vision Sports in October 2020. More recently, Rob worked with Paul Merson on his memoir, Hooked.
Twitter: @unforgivenrb
Oct 5, 2020
Patrick Barclay was one of the UK’s most highly respected journalists and writers. Former Chief Football Commentator for The Times and Sports Journalist of the Year, he previously worked for The Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent and The Observer. He also appeared regularly on Sky Sports and TalkSPORT. In 1994 Patrick was voted Britain’s leading sports writer.
Barclay travelled widely during his career, covering seven World Cups, eight European Championships, and four African Nations Cups. Educated in Dundee he remained a lifelong supporter of Dundee FC. He wrote a number of highly successful and critically acclaimed books including Football – Bloody Hell: The Biography of Alex Ferguson (Yellow Jersey, 2010), Mourinho: Anatomy of a Winner (Orion), which was updated and republished in 2015, The Life and Times of Herbert Chapman: the Stories of One of Football’s Most Influential Figures (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2014) which was shortlisted for the Football Book of the Year at the Cross British Sports Book Awards 2015. His last book, Sir Matt Busby: The Man Who Made a Football Club (Ebury, 2017) was shortlisted for the Cross Football Book of the Year at the Sports Book of the Year awards 2017. (DL)
Apr 8, 2021
Born in Galloway, Scotland, Stuart Barker graduated from Strathclyde University in 1996 and began working as a motorcycle journalist for Motor Cycle News. Freelance since 2001, he has written for most of the major motorcycling titles and was editor of the Isle of Man TT programme for eight years. He has written eight books including a best-selling biography of Barry Sheene and a biography of Evel Knievel which is set to be made into a major Hollywood movie. Other woks include biographies of Niall Mackenzie, Steve Hislop, David Jefferies, Valentino Rossi and Marc Màrquez. Barker has also written a history of the Isle of Man TT races (‘TT Century’) and penned the best-selling ‘Ragged Edge: The Brutal True Story of the Isle of Man TT – The World’s Most Dangerous race.’ His latest book ‘Win, Lose or Die: Inside the Lethal Sport of Motorcycle Road Racing and the Isle of Man TT’ will be released by Bonnier Books in May 2026. He lives in Kettering, Northamptonshire.
Mar 28, 2022
Wayne Barton is an author, ghost-writer and producer based in Manchester. He has written numerous books on Manchester United and was described by former United chairman Martin Edwards as ‘the pre-eminent writer on the club’, and by the Independent as ‘the leading writer on Manchester United’. His biographies of Eric Cantona and George Best were best-selling titles. Barton produced and co-wrote BT Sport Films adaptations of his books Too Good To Go Down and True Genius. In 2022 his book True Genius was long listed for The Sunday Times Football Book of the Year award. Wayne’s next book to be published was Eternal: An Intimate Portrait of Manchester United’s Lost Genius – Duncan Edwards in 2023.
He has also worked as a ghost-writer to musicians and actors in the US.
In March 2025, Wayne wrote Football, Taught by Matt Busby which was published by Reach Sport and his latest book is Manchester United After Munich: How Tragedy Forged One of the World’s Greatest Football Clubs. Published by Bloomsbury Sport in November 2025.
Oct 19, 2020
Debbie Beckerman was the publisher of Transworld’s sports list, Partridge Press, and was responsible for a number of their bestsellers including autobiographies by Geoffrey Boycott and Brian Clough. More recently, she has turned her hand to writing and has been involved with a number of successful autobiographies by legends such as Ilya Nastase, Patrick Vieira, Didier Drogba and Brian Moore, whose memoir, Beware of the Dog, won the 2010 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. She has also acted as Associate Editor and writer on a variety of other titles, including Jon Nicholson’s memoir, Living Without Emma, and health titles such as Professor Lesley Regan’s Your Pregnancy Week by Week, and Expecting a Baby with Dr Penelope Law, which is published by Quadrille. Debbie collaborated with Brian Moore on his memoir, What Goes On Tour, which was published by Simon & Schuster in October 2014. Most recently, Debbie worked with John McEnroe on his autobiography, But Seriously.
Oct 19, 2020
Scyld Berry, chief cricket writer of the Telegraph, is believed to be the only person to have covered 500 Test matches apart from the late Richie Benaud. He began on The Observer in 1976 and covered his first England tour in 1977 to Pakistan. He has since written ten books, mostly about cricket. He has been writing for the Telegraph since 1993, and was Editor of Wisden for four years.
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