May 4, 2021
David Tossell is the author of 17 sports books and has enjoyed a four-decade career in sports journalism and communications. He has been short-listed seven times in the British Sports Book Awards and twice for the MCC/Cricket Society Book of the Year. Among his titles are biographies of Jimmy Greaves, Alan Ball, Tony Greig, Malcolm Allison, Tommy Docherty, Bertie Mee and Derek Dougan, and the stories of the Wales rugby team of the 1970s, the 1953 FA Cup final, the Arsenal double season of 1971 and the iconic 1976 West Indies cricket tour of England. Beginning his career on local newspapers, he became executive sports editor of the Today newspaper before embarking on a 25-year career at the National Football League, where he is Director of Public Affairs (Europe). His latest book All Crazee Now: English Football and Footballers in the 1970s was published in February 2021 by Pitch Publishing.
Twitter: @David_Tossell
May 19, 2022
Charlie Unwin is an author, speaker and coach with over 20 years experience in the field of human performance and psychology.
As a performance coach Charlie has worked with elite individuals and teams in sport, business and the military. These include multiple Olympics Champions, senior executives in FTSE100 companies, UK Special Forces, England Football, Premier League clubs and the Royal Household.
Charlie’s passion for human performance has been uniquely shaped by a varied career. A platoon commander on the front-line in Iraq Charlie learnt about leading people in complex and dangerous environments. As an athlete with TeamGB he discovered the art and science of learning, competing and performing at the highest level. Combined with his academic foundation in psychology and award-winning research into Motivational Climate in Elite Teams, Charlie has a deep understanding of the individual differences that make us all unique in how we define and achieve success.
Charlie has designed and delivered award-winning programmes for global businesses focused on talent development, high-performing teams and delivering results under pressure. His clients range from start-ups to global businesses including Coca-Cola, Dyson, Lego, Virgin, Sainsbury’s, GlaxoSmithKline and the Bank of England.
Author of the book Inside Out – How to train your mind and nerve for high performance
Instagram: charlie_unwin
LinkedIn: @CharlieUnwin
Jun 6, 2023
Simon Waterson joined the Royal Navy Commandos at sixteen and served in the special forces for seven years before embarking on a career as a fitness trainer. Over the last twenty-five years he has become the film industry’s most in-demand health and fitness advisor. Based in the UK, Simon travels all over the world preparing actors for major roles before accompanying them on set to keep them fit during filming.
Simon has written two books, Intelligent Fitness and The 10-Week Intelligent Fitness Challenge. Both were big bestsellers, with the latter hitting number 1 on the overall Amazon chart. Simon is also a regular guest on This Morning.
https://www.instagram.com/simonwatersonperformance/?hl=en
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 primarily known as the guitarist and one of the principal songwriters in UK band The Maccabees. Upon the band’s split in 2017, which culminated in a number 1 album, festival headline shows, multiple awards and a finale run of three consecutive shows at London’s Alexandra Palace, Felix has embarked on a number of other projects. These include co-founding independent record label ‘Yala! Records, writing film scores, broadcasting for BBC 6 music and co-presenting the BBC regular loosely cricket based podcast ‘Tailenders’ with Greg James and Jimmy Anderson. Last year he collaborated further with Jimmy Anderson, ghost-writing Anderson’s Bowl. Sleep. Repeat and wrote regular features on the game for the Independent and Wisden Cricket Monthly. His first book Its Always Summer Somewhere, a memoir through the lens of a love of cricket and music, taking in grief, identity and belonging was published by Octopus in August 2021.
May 4, 2021
TIM WIGMORE is a sports writer for The Daily Telegraph. He has also contributed to publications including The Spectator, The Economist, ESPN, FiveThirtyEight and The New Statesman. His book Cricket 2.0: Inside the T20 Revolution won the Wisden Book of the Year award in 2020. His writing covers a wide range of sports, especially cricket and football, and covers topics including the business and politics of sports and sports science.
Twitter: @timwig
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