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Frank Gregan is one of England’s most experienced non league managers with fourteen years service in the dugout. He is a former infantry Sergeant Maj... Read more

Simon Rowlands worked at Timeform for many years as a handicapper, writer and editor - and for two years as an exchange punter - before joining The Sp... Read more

Bill covered his first Open in 1969 at Royal Lytham when Tony Jacklin won and has worked at another 31 since. Along the way Elliott has been to 28 con... Read more

I had a tough upbringing. Having two Spurs fans as older brothers was tantamount to child abuse. I had to find my own sporting path so I picked a club... Read more

Sean is a freelance sports journalist, who has spent time working for the broadsheets in London and in the Midlands as a football correspondent for th... Read more

I am 56 and married with two children. Born in Bath, England I emigrated to Australia at 16-years of age where I fell in love with sports and in parti... Read more

Nik is in his very late 20s and lives in Southampton. He’s appeared on BBC Radio London’s Sunday Afternoon Sports Show, both as a studio guest and as ... Read more

I'm Spurs through and through but watch football at pretty much any level. I'm also well into boxing and my snooker and backed Graeme Dott to win the ... Read more

Jasper Carrott once told a story about a mate of his who supported Birmingham City. He was into rallying once but switched over to the Blues and had n... Read more

Ever since I can remember I have had a passion for sport that goes way back to the 1982 FIFA World Cup, probably down to the fact that my mother made ... Read more

I’m Gary Boswell – also known as Boz – and have been a professional writer for twenty five years and a professional sports tipster for seven. I specia... Read more

Barry Millns is a freelance tennis journalist and commentator, who now works primarily for Sky Sports. Since he was first let loose on tennis by the B... Read more

Having previously worked for several years in the betting industry across a variety of positions, Paul Krishnamurty has been a successful professional... Read more

Matthew has spent all his working life within the media and the betting industry. For the past 15 years he has collaborated with a number of leading ... Read more

With over 30 years of experience in bloodstock management and form analysis Nick brings a wealth of horseracing knowledge to the Betfair team. Having ... Read more

Tony Calvin has been at Betfair since June 2002, and is currently the senior press officer in the Communications team. Calvin has been on the other s... Read more

Known to many as simply TQ, Tareq spent his early life in West Yorkshire. It was here that he developed his passion for sports and betting with the lo... Read more

I was born in 1980 in Dublin, Ireland – which is where I still live today with my Canadian wife and young daughter. I’m a qualified librarian by profe... Read more

I have been working in the betting industry for almost eight years now. I have been employed by Sporting Index, Channel 4 racing, The Racing Post and ... Read more

Graham Cunningham became absorbed by horse racing from the moment he hopped over the wall of St Edmund Arrowsmith High school to see Silver Buck and N... Read more

James is the cricket, football and tennis editor of betting.betfair.com and sometime columnist. I flirted with spells in Sports Marketing and Media ... Read more

Chickendinner.co.uk is a new website designed to provide newcomers and casual users of the world of betting with information to help them deploy their... Read more

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Mike is Betfair's resident politics expert and has a particular interest in the US and UK politics betting markets. His passion for sport, however, g... Read more

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Andy Richmond has worked at Betfair for the past four years, holding a variety of roles in the company. Currently he can be found working on horseraci... Read more

You say black he says white, you say Magners he says Bulmers, you say Steven Gerrard he says Frank Lampard. He is the Betfair Contrarian. Ousted from... Read more

is a Sky Poker presenter, former Editor of Flush Magazine, and co-author of "How to Play and Win at Poker"... Read more

Joe Dyer has had the sports bug all his life but while it used to be footie, cricket and tennis in the park, now it's the Sunday sports pages and a ro... Read more

Professor Leighton Vaughan Williams, ‘The Betfair Prof’, is Professor of Economics and Finance and Head of Economics Research at Nottingham Business S... Read more

Seven years a football club employee and still a player-manager of a Sunday League side, Richard was brought up on a diet of playing and watching just... Read more

Previously head of options at Cantor Index, Simon Denham formed Capital Spreads in October 2003. He has extensive experience of the Spread Betting wor... Read more

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Born and bred in Liverpool, Dave now lives and works in Berlin. Having written badly about horse racing, football and poker for most of his adult lif... Read more

My Dad assures me I was present to see Nijinsky win the triple-crown, but I don't remember it. And as I wasn't yet born in 1970, I'm guessing his m... Read more

Since Timeform was founded in 1948 it has grown into an internationally renowned organisation. Timeform ratings are widely accepted as the definitive ... Read more

Dave Farrar has been the main football commentator at Eurosport for 8 years now, covering two World Cups and two European Championships. He also work... Read more

I write about European football for the Sunday Telegraph, the Irish Examiner and guardian.co.uk, among others. Euro 2008 is the seventh major football... Read more

Simon Mundie is a freelance sports journalist. He presents the drivetime sport on Virgin Radio; and also presents for the BBC, and on Sky News radio... Read more

Max learned the meaning of the word "longing" at the bottom of a sloping football pitch at the bottom of a sloping county (Cornwall) at the bottom of ... Read more

Feizal has been an inspirational member of Betfair's market operations department since January 2007 and, as overlord of politics and specials bets, c... Read more

Matthew Pitt is a poker enthusiast hailing from Leeds, West Yorkshire. His poker career started around five years ago when he broke his arm in a moto... Read more

Chris was first exposed to poker in 2005 after catching an episode of Celebrity Poker Showdown. To begin with he was interested in watching the celebr... Read more

I'm the football correspondent of the Financial Times, cover football in the north-east of England for the Sunday Telegraph and have a weekly column a... Read more

I’ve been watching football for over twenty years, but have only started writing about it fairly recently – it’s a way of putting all that pointless k... Read more

Ralph was about 13 when he realised he’d never be good enough to be a footballer so decided the next best thing would be to write about it. And it’s ... Read more

Ben started playing tennis at six years of age, and progressed through the years from playing county, regional, national, international tennis up unti... Read more

I started playing poker with my family when I was about seven. We used to play five card draw and seven card stud for very low stakes. I remember bein... Read more

Played and written about poker professionally for the last four years and is the latest addition to the Betfair Team.... Read more

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Much to the disappointment of my parents, my first word was 'car', and I suppose from that point on you could say that the writing was on the wall. Ov... Read more

James’ first match in France was PSG v Montpellier at the Parc Des Princes in 1989. Details are hazy, but Eric Cantona scored the goal for the visitor... Read more

I'm a right-back playing for Shrewsbury Town in League Two, with a chance to give a bit of an insight into what life's like away from the glamour of t... Read more

Alan has been working as a sports broadcaster, journalist and commentator since 1999 - having joined the football telephone service ClubCall, here he ... Read more

Following the fluctuating fortunes of Aston Villa, Warwickshire CCC and the England cricket team has provided the perfect grounding for the ups and do... Read more

Raz is a mathematics masters graduate with aspirations of watching, playing and talking about football for the foreseeable future, or up until he is k... Read more

Im a Mechanical Engineer from Glasgow with a big passion for football. I play at Amateur level for local outfit Clyde Valley Rovers (www.clydevalleyro... Read more

Ed Nicholson has worked within the racing and betting industries since before University - a career that now spans over 22 years. In a varied career ... Read more

A central midfield workaholic, Gavin Mahon’s covered plenty of miles in pitch time for his four main clubs: Hereford United, Brentford, Watford and no... Read more

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They say that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger and after a career which has taken in – and taken down – the Football Gazette, onefootball.com,... Read more

Bettorlogic are a team of analysts, developers, modellers and bettors, committed to setting new standards in the nature and quality of form analysis a... Read more

Julio Maldonado (Madrid, 1967), commonly known as Maldini, has, over the last decade, become the authority on international football in Spain. His enc... Read more

April 17th 1979 remains a significant date in the Steedman household. It was the night the family home burned to the ground shortly before Glasgow’s ... Read more

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BePolitics Tired of listening to the same old commentators, journos and political hacks? So were we. Politics isn’t just about the views of a selec... Read more

I live in Camden Town, but Europe is my playground. I spent last season studying Italian football, and Spain is now the focus of my attention. Recentl... Read more

Richard Douglas has written on sport for almost all of Britain's national newspapers. He was boxing betting correspondent for the late, lamented Sport... Read more

I'm Nick Cantwell, but in poker circles everybody knows me as "Cloud" (struggling to come up with an original poker name, I happened to be looking out... Read more

Jeremy Grayson’s first venture into horse racing media came in 2001, when co-editing the website dedicated to legendary loser Quixall Crossett. Since ... Read more

John Walsh was born and raised in Prince Edward Island, Canada. John always had a keen interest in sports, playing several at an elite level from a yo... Read more

Graham Lewis (Grubber) took his first steps in betting at a very young age when he would help his Grandparents pick their horse racing selections on S... Read more

Brian is from Toronto, Ontario, and has been involved in the online sports betting industry since 1997. He has been betting offshore since 1990 and ha... Read more

Banned for life from every comedy club, performing theatre and after-dinner circuit in the world; black-listed for every job in the gambling industry ... Read more

AccuScore is the sports industry's premiere pre-game resource for the serious sports fans and is dedicated to forecasting sports through entertaining ... Read more

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Chris Tessaro has been a writer and editor for several well known magazines and publications, and is currently the co-host of the number one poker rad... Read more

Charlotte Cook first developed an interest in sports when she followed in her father and grandfather's footsteps by starting to support Chelsea FC at ... Read more