May 4, 2021
Boff Whalley was born in Lancashire, where he worked as a postman and supermarket shelf-stacker before starting a band with friends in the Thatcher era. After 25 years of recording and touring with Chumbawamba (co-writing their hit song ‘Tubthumping’), Boff started to write – he has written several touring plays for Red Ladder Theatre and has written large-scale musicals with residents of two East Leeds estates, performed at West Yorkshire Playhouse. He is working at the moment with Cardboard Citizens Theatre, the Welsh National Opera, and with Edinburgh Fringe winner Daniel Bye on a show about running
May 4, 2021
Felix White is a British musician, originally best known as the guitarist of the indie rock band The Maccabees. His life has widened to many disciplines since, taking in broadcasting, writing, film score composition and presenting. He is the co-presenter of both the loosely cricket-based BBC podcast Tailenders, with Greg James and Jimmy Anderson, and the official Fulham Football Club podcast Fulham Fix, as well as the founding member, guitarist and vocalist of 86TVs. He has composed music for multiple feature-length films, including the Emmy Award-winning McEnroe, and presents the baseball coverage on the BBC, appearing every Sunday throughout the season on Bases Covered Live. His first book, It’s Always Summer Somewhere: A Matter of Life and Cricket, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and a Sunday Times Bestseller. Whatever Will Be, Will Be is the highly anticipated sequel.
Sep 2, 2024
Richard Whitehead worked in newspapers for nearly 40 years, 21 of them on The Times where he occupied several senior roles, including assistant sports editor, deputy books editor and deputy obituaries editor. His knowledge and passion for the history of sport has been demonstrated in his books, including ‘The Cup’, a joyous celebration of the 150th anniversary of the FA Cup, ‘The Times on the Ashes’ and ‘Children of the Revolution: Aston Villa in the 1970s.’ He contributes to the renowned obituaries section of ‘Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack’ and edited the anthology ‘Warne on Wisden.’
May 4, 2021
Freddie Wilde is an analyst at the cricket analytics company CricViz – working with broadcasters and professional teams around the world. Freddie started his career as a cricket journalist, specialising in the Twenty20 format. He built a large profile on twitter, and originally managed his workload alongside studying for a degree in politics at the University of Cardiff. On graduating, Freddie moved into cricket data analysis and now lives in London. Freddie’s most recent book Cricket 2.0 charts the rise of the T20 format from a gimmick to the modern face of the sport. Freddie co-wrote the book with Tim Wigmore, and it was published by Polaris in 2019.
May 4, 2021
Simon Wilde has been the cricket correspondent of the Sunday Times since 1998 and has covered more than 260 England Test matches, 12 Ashes series and six World Cups for the paper. He has also received wide acclaim as author of 11 books several of which have been shortlisted for awards. The most recent of these, England: The Biography 1877-2018, a history of the national cricket team, has been reprinted several times and was described by Peter Oborne in The Spectator as “an important work of scholarly synthesis which establishes Wilde as one of our foremost cricket historians”. Copies of the book were presented to members of the England squad by the team management on the eve of the 2019 Ashes series and will be given to each future player when they make their debuts.
Website: https://www.simon-wilde.co.uk/
May 4, 2021
Jonathan Wilson is the founder and editor of the critically acclaimed football quarterly The Blizzard, and is one of the UK’s most successful writers of narrative sportsbooks. His latest book, Two Brothers: The Life and Times of Bobby and Jackie Charlton, was published by Little, Brown in August 2022. Jonathan’s early titles include Behind the Curtain (Orion, 2006), Nobody Ever Says Thank You (Orion, 2011), The Outsider (Orion, 2012), Angels with Dirty Faces (2016), The Barcelona Legacy (2018) and The Names Heard Long Ago: How the Golden Age of Hungarian Soccer Shaped the Modern Game (2019). He is perhaps best known for his bestselling history of the evolution of football tactics, Inverting the Pyramid, which was named Football Book of the Year in 2008, shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award and has sold around the world. A former football correspondent of the Financial Times, he is now a columnist for The Guardian and Sports Illustrated. He lives in London.
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