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Duncan Mackay is the editor of insideworldfootball. He is one of Britain’s best-connected journalists and during the 16 years he worked at The Guardian and The Observer he regularly broke a number of major exclusive stories, including the news that England and Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand was facing a ban after skipping a drugs test. Mackay’s ground-breaking stories were recognised when he was voted the British Sports Journalist of the Year in 2004 and, in the same year, won the Sports News Story of the Year. In 2010 he was named as British Sports Internet Writer of the Year (2009) by the Sports Journalist Association. Mackay has attended five football World Cup Finals, his first being in 1974 in Germany. Mackay regularly appears on Sky News, BBC News 24, BBC World, Sky Sports News, BBC Radio 5 and CNBC as well as several other radio and television stations around the world. He has written several books, including the highly critically-acclaimed Running Scared: How Athletics Lost its Innocence, Linford Christie, The History of the Olympics and China Gold: China’s Quest for Global Power and Olympic Glory.

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David Owen Andrew Warshaw Mihir Bose Chief columnist Chief football writer Regular columnist David Owen is a former Sports Editor of Andrew Warshaw is a former Sports Mihir Bose is an award winning journalist the Financial Times. He has covered four Editor of The European, the newspaper and author who writes a weekly blog for football World Cups and the Athens and that broke the Bosman story in the insideworldfootball that is a “must read” Beijing Olympics - not to mention a G7 1990s, the most significant issue to shape among leading football officials around Summit and general elections in three professional football as we know it today. the world. different countries. Before that, he worked for The Associated Press He was the BBC’s first Sports Editor where his job involved Much of his sportswriting has a business slant and he enjoys for 13 years in Geneva and London. investigating and analysing sports stories. His major scoops exceptional contacts with leading international sports During a distinguished career, Warshaw has covered no fewer included revealing how the cost of the London Olympics had administrators in the football world and beyond. Under his than seven World Cups, starting in 1982, and is one of the risen from the original £2.4 billion to £9.3 billion. He covered all sports editorship, Joseph Blatter, the FIFA President, became a UK’s most respected writers on the politics of football and the BBC outlets including the flagship Ten O’Clock News, the Today much-read FT columnist. Owen, a fluent French speaker, was corridors of power. He has covered the last three World Cup programme, Five Live and the website. also the first British journalist to interview Michel Platini in 2006 bids, providing insightful analysis of England’s failed bid for the Before joining the BBC, he was the chief sports news when the Frenchman successfully challenged 2006 and 2018 tournaments, South Africa’s dramatic narrow correspondent for for 12 years where for the UEFA Presidency. loss to Germany for 2010 and the extraordinary chain of events he created an innovative weekly column, Inside Sport. He Since starting to write for insideworldfootball and its sister both before and after the controversial simultaneous ballots for also wrote on the editorial pages on such subjects as race, publication insidethegames, Owen has produced a stream of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. immigration, and other social and cultural issues. compelling and authoritative columns in addition to breaking A familiar face at important FIFA and UEFA summits and He has written for nearly all the major UK newspapers, editing numerous stories. These range from the disclosure that FIFA football business conferences, Warshaw has an impressive the Inside Track column of and several was considering staging the bidding contests for the 2018 contacts book and enjoys a cordial relationship with many of the business publications. He has presented programmes for radio and 2022 World Cups at the same time to the revelation that game’s movers and shakers. For many years, he has also written and television, and written over 25 books, including two books Franz Beckenbauer was being kept awake by a rogue vuvuzela. news, match reports and features for a raft of market-leading on Manchester United and one on Tottenham Hotspur. His Like Beckenbauer, Owen once played on a winning team at national and international newspapers and magazines. He is also most recent book, The Spirit of the Game, published in 2012, Wembley. the football politics analyst for talkSPORT, commercial radio explores how Sport lost its original spirit and how it emerged in station of the year. the 20th century as the most powerful political and social tool in the world.

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