About
Irish Liverpool-born sports journalist, known for being BBC Sport's chief soccer writer since July 2000. He writes detailed profiles, analyses, and predictions about all things soccer in England and abroad.
Before Fame
He attended Roman Catholic secondary school at De La Salle Grammar in Liverpool. He covered the FIFA World Cups for the BBC in Japan and South Korea in 2002, Germany in 2006, and South Africa in 2010. He also does sportscasting and analysis for BBC Radio on BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio 4, and BBC Radio World Service. He wrote 449 articles from May 2007 to May 2018.
Trivia
In 2012, he was ranked by a (UK) Press Gazette poll among Britain's top 50 sports journalists, with a comment calling him "the Proust of the back pages".
Family Life
He is Irish but was born in Liverpool, England. He is married to Lynne McNulty, and the couple have two children and live in Oxford.
Associated With
He has written about many soccer legends, including Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Didier Drogba.
