Apr 26, 2021
Brian Reade is an award-winning journalist who writes two weekly opinion columns for the Daily Mirror. He was born in Liverpool in 1957 and began his career on the Reading Evening Post in 1980, working as a football writer and columnist at the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo before moving to the Mirror in 1994. He has been named Columnist, Sports Columnist and Feature Writer of the Year in the British Press Awards and given the Cudlipp Award for Journalistic Excellence for his campaigning on behalf of the Hillsborough families. In 2008, Reade released his first book, 44 Years With The Same Bird, documenting his life spent following Liverpool FC, which became a massive bestseller. In 2011 Quercus published another bestseller, An Epic Swindle: 44 Months with a Pair of Cowboys, which charted the doomed ownership of Liverpool FC by Hicks and Gillett. Brian is currently working on a new book about working-class heroes to be published next year by Reach Sport.
Twitter: @brianreade
Apr 26, 2021
Born in Essex, where the football was provided by Southend United, Tim Rich has spent more than twenty-five years covering some of the biggest clubs in the country as well as five World Cups.
After a spell in the North East as the Sunderland Echo’s cricket correspondent and chief sports writer at the Newcastle Journal, he joined The Independent as the paper’s northern football correspondent reporting on the fabulous Manchester United machine created by Sir Alex Ferguson. He moved to the Daily Telegraph in 2005 and returned to The Independent as a freelance.
Old Trafford has featured prominently in Tim’s books. He has ghost-written the biographies of the former United manager, Ron Atkinson, the club’s Russian winger, Andrei Kanchelskis, and edited the memoirs of United’s long time lawyer, Maurice Watkins.
In 2023 he produced On Days Like These, the story of the United goalkeeper, Les Sealey, compiled from tapes left behind after his death. It was longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year.
His first book, however, described a very different club. Caught Beneath the Landslide detailed the decline and fall of Manchester City in the 1990s. Six years after its publication, he collaborated with David Bernstein, the chairman who steered City from the third tier of English football to the Premier League for an insider’s account of the drama, We Were Really There. He has also collaborated with the former Manchester City manager, Brian Horton, on his memoirs.
In 2019, Tim travelled across South America and Europe to write The Quality of Madness, an acclaimed account of the life of Marcelo Bielsa. This was followed by a collaboration with Craig Bromfield, Be Good, Love Brian; an account of how Craig, a drug-dealer’s son from Sunderland, was adopted by Brian Clough. It was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year.
His latest collaboration has been with the former Luton and Tottenham manager, David Pleat, on his autobiography, Just One More Goal.
Apr 26, 2021
Barney Ronay writes about sport for The Guardian where he has had a Saturday column for the last six years and is also a regular on the Football Weekly podcast. He has written several books about sport, including Any Chance of A Game? and the award-winning The Manager: The Absurd Ascent of The Most Important Man in Football, plus some earlier titles with big writing and lots of pictures that he doesn’t like to talk about. His most recent book is the much-admired How Football (Nearly) Came Home: Adventures in Putin’s World Cup which was published in 2018 by HarperCollins.
Apr 26, 2021
Tony Rushmer has been a journalist for 25 years, covering a wide range of top-class sport – including Premier League football, the Ryder Cup and the Derby – for national newspapers and magazines. His first book was the critically acclaimed The Triumph of Henry Cecil (Constable), which was one of three finalists for the 2019 Dr Tony Ryan Award. Tony established his own sports PR business in 2005 and his clients have included Newmarket Racecourses, the PGA and World Snooker. He lives 25 minutes from Newmarket, historic home to the sport that he is most passionate about – horseracing.
Website: www.rushmerpr.com
Twitter: @RushmerPR
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