Nov 10, 2022
Harry Gates has been a practising family law barrister for over two decades, focusing on the financial consequences of relationship breakdown. Along with fellow barrister Samantha Woodham, he co-founded The Divorce Surgery, the first service in the UK to enable separating couples to share one family lawyer (www.thedivorcesurgery.co.uk). He is recognised as an expert in his field by the Legal 500, Chambers and Partners, Spears and the Tatler HNW guide.
Harry writes regularly about why divorcing couples should be empowered to work together, rather than against each other, and has contributed to numerous Government and Judicial consultations on the future of Family Justice. Harry and Samantha have now combined their expertise to write a book about how couples can divorce well, called ‘The Divorce Surgery: The Art of Untying the Knot’, published by Harper Collins in April 2022. It is an accessible blueprint for separating well, but also provokes a wider conversation around why we, as a society, treat divorce as a failure, and why that has to change.
Website: www.thedivorcesurgery.co.uk
Instagram: @thedivorcesurgery
Apr 8, 2021
Daniel Geey was born in Liverpool in the eighties to his dad (a lawyer) and his mum (a professional tennis player). His path to becoming a sports lawyer had already been set in stone. With a fervent interest in football, he consumed as much news and information as he could about the beautiful game.
After law school and writing an extended dissertation on the Bosman ruling and the reformed FIFA transfer system, he gained an MA in Football Broadcasting Rights, before embarking on his legal career. He advises clients in the sports and football industry on a range of transfer, contract, broadcasting and dispute matters.
He wrote Done Deal (Bloomsbury, 2019) after over a decade of writing football blogs on his website and demystifying topics and issues including multi-million pound transfers, player contracts, agents and the commission they receive, Financial Fair Play and how broadcasting rights are sold.
He writes football industry blogs on his website, tweets to his heart’s content and posts football stats on Instagram. He is Chairman of football charity Football Aid and a supporter of the fantastic work of Children’s Hospice Noah’s Ark.
His aim was to write an accessible book for football fans around the globe who wanted to understand how the football industry really works.
Twitter: @FootballLaw
Instagram: footballlaw
Blog: https://www.danielgeey.com/blog/
Podcast: https://anchor.fm/daniel-geey/episodes/Liverpool–New-Balance–Nike-e7nnmi
Dec 3, 2020
Richard Gillis is an award-winning journalist working for several of the world’s leading newspaper and publishing groups. Formerly editor of SportBusiness International magazine, he then became Cricket Correspondent of the Irish Times covering Ireland’s remarkable 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup campaign in the Caribbean, where his reporting on the untimely death of Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer led the global news agenda. He now lives in London, where he is a columnist and feature interviewer for the Irish Times and writes about sport, business and the media for the Wall Street Journal, alongside media and communications consultancy work. His book The Captain Myth: The Ryder Cup and Sport’s Great Leadership Delusion was published by Bloomsbury in August 2016.
Dec 3, 2020
Pete Goding is the co-author of Mountain High and Mountain Higher. Specialising in Travel and Sports, his work with National Geographic Traveller magazine and the Press Association has taken him around the world photographing/filming landscapes, people & culture. Publishing intimate, dramatic & exclusive portraits of high-profile figures, architecture and the natural world, displayed across journals and national newspapers such as the Guardian, Telegraph and Times. His first book was finalist for the 2012 British Sportsbook of the year & shortlisted for the 2013 SweetSpot Cycling book of the year along with Mountain High App featuring in the final of the Future Book Innovation awards – Best non-fiction digital book 2014.
Websites: petegoding.com & petegodingphotography.com
Twitter: @pgoding
Instagram: petegoding
Apr 26, 2022
Hugh Godwin is a sports journalist who has been the rugby union correspondent of ‘I’, a national daily newspaper in the UK, since 2016, having previously held the same role with the ‘Independent on Sunday’ for eight years. He has written on rugby and other sports for 30 years, reporting live from five Rugby World Cup finals and interviewing every major rugby player and personality of the modern era. He is the secretary of the UK Rugby Union Writers’ Club and a regular radio broadcaster as a rugby analyst for BBC London. In a previous role as a photographic editor he worked at four Olympic Games (summer and winter). He has written two books: ‘England: Rugby World Champions’, celebrating the 2003 World Cup success, published by Mitchell Beazley, and his first biography ‘The Flying Prince: Alexander Obolensky’, published in 2021 by Hodder & Stoughton.
Twitter: @hughgodwin_
Apr 8, 2021
Daniel Gray’s latest book is The Silence of the Stands: Finding the Joy in Football’s Lost Season (Bloomsbury). His previous works include Extra Time: 50 Further Delights of Modern Football; Saturday, 3pm: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football; and Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters: Travels through England’s Football Provinces (all Bloomsbury). He has also written several other books on football, politics, literature, history and travel. His recent work has included presenting social history on television and writing across a number of national titles. He is the Editor of Nutmeg magazine and producer/host of the When Saturday Comes podcast. Daniel is a Middlesbrough fan exiled in Edinburgh.
Website: www.danielgraywriter.com
Twitter: @d_gray_writer
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Daniel-Gray-Writer-and-Broadcaster
YouTube: www.youtube.com/danielgraywriter
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