Apr 16, 2021
An author and ghost-writer, Mark Hodgkinson recently collaborated with an Olympic gold-medal winning athlete. His other projects have included ghosting for boxer Lawrence Okolie, the world cruiserweight champion, which Fearne Cotton called ‘the most motivational book I’ve ever read’. Mark worked with Daniel Craig, Tom Hiddleston and their trainer Simon Waterson on two fitness books, the second of which was an Amazon No. 1 bestseller. Mark wrote a book for Naomi Osaka’s coach, Sascha Bajin, which was a bestseller in Japan, and has worked with performance psychologist Charlie Unwin and former Marine Nick Goldsmith. A former sports journalist for the Daily Telegraph, Mark has ghosted words for Robbie Williams (for a fashion project), Bjorn Borg (an entire newspaper supplement) and Martina Navratilova (a Sports Illustrated cover story). Under his own name, Mark has written biographies of Roger Federer, Andy Murray and Serena Williams. He consults for international sports brands in Europe, the United States and Japan.
Website: https://nine-london.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hodgkinsonmark2000/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/thetennisspace
Apr 16, 2021
Oliver Holt was appointed Chief Sports Writer on The Times from 2000 to 2002 before becoming Chief Sports Writer for The Daily Mirror in 2002. In February 2015 he left the paper to join the Mail on Sunday. Holt is a regular guest on the Sunday Supplement. He won the British Press Awards Sports Writer of the Year in both 2005 and 2006, the What the Papers Say Sports Writer of the Year in 2005 and the Sports Columnist of the Year in 2008. Holt is a regular guest on Sky as well as BBC Radio and has a weekly spot on This Morning. He once returned a serve from Roscoe Tanner in the line of duty for the Liverpool Echo. Previous books include End of the Rainbow: England’s Quest for Glory in South Africa (Hodder, 2010), which is widely regarded as the definitive account of the 2010 World Cup. Other books include: If You’re Second You are Nothing: Ferguson and Shankley (Macmillan 2006). Both Made in Sheffield: My Story – Neil Warnock (Hodder, 2007) and Left Field: A Footballer Apart – Graeme Le Saux (Harper Collins 2007) were shortlisted for awards. Holt collaborated with Stan Collymore on Stan: Tackling My Demons (Harper Collins 2005) and co-wrote Growing Up Fast with Theo Walcott. His book, Miracle at Medinah, an account of Europe’s amazing Ryder Cup comeback, was published by Headline in 2012. Holt also worked with Ian Poulter on his book project, which was published in autumn 2014 by Quercus. Most recently Holt has collaborated with Kieren Fallon on his autobiography, which won the Cross Sports International Autobiography of the Year award.
Twitter: @OllieHolt22
Apr 16, 2021
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Raphael Honigstein writes about football for The Athletic and Der Spiegel, and is a regular expert on BT Sport and Sky Deutschland. He’s the author of Englischer Fussball: A German View of Our Beautiful Game, Das Reboot: How German Football Reinvented Itself and Conquered the World, and the co-author of Peter Mertesacker’s autobiography. Honigstein’s biography of Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp, Bring the Noise, was published by Yellow Jersey in November 2017. It was a bestseller in Germany and has sold into multiple territories.
Apr 16, 2021
Damian Hughes is a bestselling author who combines his practical and academic background within sport, organisational development and change psychology, to help organisations and teams to create a high performing culture.
He is the author of eight best-selling business books, including Liquid Thinking, Liquid Leadership, How to Change Absolutely Anything, How to Think Like Sir Alex Ferguson and The Five STEPS to a Winning Mindset.
His latest book, High Performance: Lessons from the Best on Becoming Your Best, has been a number one Sunday Times best seller. His work has been translated into ten languages.
He has also been nominated for the 2007 William Hill Sports book of the year award for Peerless, his biography of boxing great Sugar Ray Robinson. In 2009, he co-authored a critically acclaimed biography of boxing legend, Thomas Hearns in Hitman: the Thomas Hearns Story. In 2013, his latest biography, Marvelous Marvin Hagler became the UK’s best selling sports biography.
He was appointed as a visiting Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Change for Manchester Metropolitan University in September 2010.
He is the co-host of The High Performance Podcast, an acclaimed series of interviews with elite performers from business, sport and the arts, exploring the psychology behind sustained high performance.
He has served as a member of the coaching team for England Rugby League, England Roses, Scotland Rugby Union and a wide range of international and national sporting teams
Website: www.liquidthinker.com
Apr 16, 2021
Simon Hughes is a Merseyside based football writer for The Athletic. He is the author of seven books about Liverpool FC as well as There She Goes, a modern social history of Liverpool as a city. He has previously written for The Independent (deCoubertin, 2019) as well as The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph.
Twitter: @simon_hughes__
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