Mario Krischel

Mario Krischel

Mario Krischel started his writing career at Borussia Mönchengladbach and Schalke 04 and now works for Kicker, Germany’s most popular sports platform, covering European football from the Bundesliga to the Premier League to Bulgaria’s third division. He also regularly writes about basketball and American football. Most recently he worked with professional footballer Robin Gosens on his autobiography Robin Gosens – Träumen lohnt sich published by Edel in April 2021. He lives in Nuremburg.

 

 

Twitter: @m_krischel

Amy Lawrence

Amy Lawrence has been writing about football since the early 1990s. She was the Observer’s deputy football correspondent for over a decade, and covered the game for the Guardian and the Observer until joining the Athletic in 2019. Amy has covered the Premier League, Champions League, continental football and attended several World Cups and European Championships. She has also written a number of football books, mostly about her specialist subject of Arsenal, starting with Proud To Say That Name which was published in 1997. Since then, her study of Arsenal’s ‘Invincible’ team of 2003-4, which was based on in depth interviews with the players, staff and Arsene Wenger, was well received. She also worked with Ray Parlour on his autobiography, and recently collaborated with the Arsenal photographer Stuart McFarlane to produce a photographic history of Arsene Wenger. She was awarded ‘Football Writer of the Year’ in 2014 by the Football Supporters Federation and ‘Journalist of the Year’ by Women In Football in 2016. Her most recent book 89 was published by Century in 2019. She also worked as the producer on a documentary of the same subject, entitled ‘89, which was released by Universal Studios.

Twitter: @amylawrence71

Martin Lipton

Martin Lipton has had a 25­-year-career as a journalist including being Chief Football Writer for the Press Association, Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, covering England at five World Cups and four European Championships plus reporting at Wimbledon, the Ryder Cup, Test and World Cup cricket and two Olympic Games. A graduate of Oxford University, he has also been an active Spurs supporter since attending his first game in 1972. He is now the Deputy Head of Sport at The Sun and his book White Hart Lane: The Glory Years 1899-2017 was published by W&N in October 2017.

Matt Little

Matt Little has been working in Elite level tennis for over 15 years. During this time he has worked with players and teams of all ages from the bottom to the very top of the game. His career achievements include 10 years as part of Team Murray. Recently undertaking the role of leading Andy’s support team for his incredible world dominating 2016 where he won Olympic gold, Wimbledon and world number one. Matt has also spent 5 years as the strength and conditioning coach for Great Britain’s 2015 Davis Cup winning team, helping them from a relegation playoff in Euro-Africa group 2, to winning the competition 5 years later. Matt is now an internationally recognised leader in his industry and public speaker on a vast range of subjects including youth development, strength and conditioning, soft skills and life skills. His debut book, The Way of the Tortoise, was published by Michael O’Mara books in June 2021.

Sid Lowe

Sid Lowe lives in Madrid and writes a weekly column for guardian.co.uk. He also writes regularly for The Guardian, World Soccer, FourFourTwo, and the Telegraph. He is a commentator and panelist for Spanish, Asian and US television and has translated for David Beckham, Michael Owen, and Thomas Gravesen. He translated Fernado Torres’ El Nino: My Story (Harper Collins, 2009). His bestselling Fear and Loathing in La Liga is published by Yellow Jersey and has been shortlisted for the Football Book of the Year at the 2014 British Sports Book Awards. Sid worked with Pete Jenson on the Luis Suarez autobiography, Crossing the Line – My Story. They also collaborated on Iniesta’s hugely successful autobiography, published by Headline in September 2016.

Michelle Lyons

Michelle Lyons

Michelle Lyons was a prison reporter before becoming the chief spokesman of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the second largest prison system in the United States. Over the course of 12 years and in both roles, she witnessed nearly 300 executions by lethal injection, including some of Texas’ most infamous death row inmates. In her book, Death Row: The Final Minutes, she writes about her time as an execution witness, including memorable stories of last statements, final meals and death row conversations – as well as the toll witnessing so much death eventually takes.

Michelle lives in Huntsville, Texas, and can be found on Twitter, where she generally is ranting about prisons or politics in between bans for using inappropriate language.

 

Twitter: @mclyons4