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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 ... Read more

Simon Rowlands has worked at Timeform since 1986, with the exception of a short period earlier this century, and is now Head of Research and Handic... Read more

Sean is a freelance sports journalist, who has spent time working for the broadsheets in London; 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 pa... 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 t... 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 ma... Read more

GARY BOSWELL (aka The Boz) spent twenty years as a professional poet and has the distinction of being the youngest living poet featured in the “BBC... 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 th... Read more

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

I am betting.betfair’s rugby union expert and live racecourse reporter. I also work freelance covering both rugby and racing for the Sunday Times, ... Read more

Andrew Hughes is a writer, gambler and amateur cricket watcher who has always retained a healthy suspicion of professional sportsmen and like any r... 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 an... Read more

Darrell Williams has worked as a horse and greyhound racing broadcaster and journalist since 1988.

Freelance for the last six years, he wor... Read more

Ed Hawkins is betting.betfair's chief cricket tipster. He has been a tipster for more than 12 years, the majority at the Racing Post.

He ha... Read more

James is the cricket, football and tennis editor of betting.betfair.com and sometime columnist.

I flirted with spells in Sports Mark... Read more

Mike has worked in or around politics and betting for many years. He spent time on a 2004 Presidential campaign in the United States, a 2006 US Se... Read more

Andy Richmond worked at Betfair for four years, holding a variety of roles in the company. He started out in the betting industry working for Ladbr... 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.

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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... Read more

There were only two things between me and a career as a professional footballer – my left leg and my right leg. My primary school teachers spotted ... 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... 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 gues... Read more

David Stewart made front page headlines of The Sun as a teenager when programming his home computer to pick winners and gave Sun readers three out ... Read more

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

I got into racing pretty late in life and have no real racing background, though my father was a professional gambler for a short period while livi... Read more

1 – Can you tell us about your family and background?

I’m originally from Cardiff where I lived with my parents and two yo... 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 w... 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 ... 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... 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... Read more

Jonathan Wilson is a freelance journalist and author, who has written for every British national broadsheet. A former football correspondent of the... 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... Read more

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

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

From 1993 to 2000, James Eastham was editor of the UK's first and only English-language fanzine, Aux Armes!

Since 2000, he has interviewed ... Read more

Alan always dreamed of becoming a football or cricketer (or even both), but it never quite worked out. Many years plying his trade as a spinner/das... 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... Read more

You may know him as Robin, or you may know him as Bob the Dog. Either way, he's got more experience as a sports journalist and broadcaster than yo... 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... Read more

Born in Dublin, raised on Flat racing, Stephen joined Betfair in early 2007. Alongisde horses, Stephen is passionate about rugby and has written fo... Read more

I live in Camden Town, but Europe is my playground. I started out studying Italian football, and Spain is now the focus of my attention. Recently, ... Read more

I am a Sunderland fan who has endured the highs and extreme lows of the club since the age of 8. From the mundane nothingness of the pre-Peter Reid... Read more

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

Dan Geraghty is a lifelong Spurs fan who is often obsessive about creative midfielders (Rui Costa, Tom Huddlestone and Andy Reid to name three). Af... Read more

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Guy McCrea is a sports journalist and tennis commentator. His dulcet Croydon tones can be heard in a wide variety of places including Eurosport, Ra... Read more

Will Hayler never saw a horse until he was nine, but was instantly hooked on racing from the moment he had his 50 pence pocket money on New Attitud... Read more

I shun legendary sportsmen like Lionel Messi, Rafael Nadal and Michael Schumacher and instead opt to idolise the goods-but-not-greats of the world ... Read more

From minor open class to Classic winners, our man travels the length and breath of the country. He's a serious open-race judge ready to pinpoint th... Read more

Rory Delargy is a regular pundit on Timeform Radio. He first discovered National Hunt racing when watching Red Rum's 1977 Grand National as a raw f... Read more

Kevin Hatchard has been living the showbiz life of a sports broadcaster and journalist for the past ten years. He spent several seasons travelling ... Read more

Short-Stacked Shamus is a poker player and writer living in the U.S. In addition to writing about his own low-limit adventures on his blog, Read more

Chris has been involved in broadcasting for many years and is often heard working as a freelance Presenter and Commentator for SIS in both English ... Read more

David Cleary first worked for Timeform in 1983, and, among many roles, he was the Editor of the Chasers & Hurdlers Annual for eight years. He conti... Read more

A £2 bet on Moonax in the 1994 St Leger was all it took to get Phil interested in horse racing – his first and to date only 50/1 winner! Having spe... Read more

In the early summer of 2000 I was phoned by a friend asking if I wanted help set-up a sports betting website. Little did I know that a small offic... Read more

I have worked at Betfair for nearly three years and got into horseracing whilst at university where I worked part-time in a betting shop. The more ... Read more

Neil Munro worked in the film and television industry for 13 years for such stalwarts as Rank Films and Carlton Television. But having to sneak out... Read more

Paul Smith has been working in horseracing for 15 years in a variety of guises, ranging from starting out at Ladbrokes to his current position as a... Read more

Mike is a host, handicapper and reporter for TVG Network, an international horseracing network with a distribution of 30 million homes in the U.S. ... Read more

Alongside his work for Timeform radio, Terry is also agent for jockeys Eddie Ahern and Shane Kelly. He has been a freelance broadcaster and journa... Read more

Mike Vince has been involved in Racing for 20 years as both broadcaster and journalist. He is racing correspondent for Independent Radio in both En... Read more

For any British tennis fan who watched the sport in the 1980s and 90s, Jeremy Bates is a legendary figure. During those skinny years this elegant p... Read more

Born in Hertford, England, analyst Simon Bray has been a racing insider since boyhood. His father owned several successful racehorses in the 1980s ... Read more

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Stephen's first experience of working in racing came in a little broom cupboard on Blackstock Road in London, the headquarters of the highly-respec... Read more

Fifty pence on 25/1-shot Cool Dawn in the 1998 Gold Cup was all it cost to sell eleven-year-old Keith Melrose’s soul to horseracing. Ten years and ... Read more

Simon Walker has worked at Timeform since 1988, spending a lot of his career working as a racecourse reporter before ‘graduating’ to Editorial Man... Read more

John was born in the same year as Mill Reef and Brigadier Gerard but it was another eighteen years before he made his own racecourse debut at Sando... Read more

Like a lot of racing followers, it was Stuart's dad and granddad who introduced him to the sport, and growing up he remembers following the likes o... Read more

Simon was set on a career in racing early on, but the small inconvenience of education continued to get in the way until 2009 when he finally escap... Read more

Following on from Andy Capp, Jeff Stelling, Philip Middlemiss (Des Barnes from Corrie), Wayne Sleep and John Darwin (the ‘Canoe Man’), Jamie Lynch ... Read more

Known as the ‘Luka Modrić of the office, due to his all-round ability, Shahin brings a wealth of knowledge to Timeform House, having worked in a va... Read more

A misspent youth. Having cultivated a love for racing on the Point-to-Point tracks of East Anglia, the best part of eight years at secondary school... Read more

Sam has had a passion for racing and betting since backing his first winner in 2003. His skills were honed during a ‘Business Management’ degree co... Read more

Dom has always taken a keen interest in a variety of sports, but it was racing that grabbed him most when introduced to it as a teenager and the fa... Read more

Pat was introduced to horse racing at an early age, with both his dad and uncle keen followers of the sport, and was taken to the track on a regula... Read more

The likes of Flagship Uberalles, Marlborough and See More Business have to accept the responsibility for David Johnson becoming interested and then... Read more

Mark rather stumbled upon racing whilst doing a degree in Sports Science at the University of Gloucestershire back in 2002 after being invited to t... Read more

Murky Tuesday and Thursday nights at Belle Vue Greyhound Stadium, accompanying a friend and his dog-owning parents, marked Daniel's first steps int... Read more

Kieran Packman heads up the Timeform operation, taking day-to-day responsibility for global product output and commercial endeavours. This can rang... Read more

Constantly skint through his early teens, Jimmy Cooper decided that instead of working for a living like normal people, he would find folk less ski... Read more

TVG reporter Christina Olivares was born and bred for the world of horseracing, spending most of her childhood competing, watching and loving the s... Read more

Matt Carothers came to racing in boyhood. His father, Gibson Carothers, a former horse owner and current board member of Minnesota’s Canterbury Par... Read more

Follow the Money’ is produced by the arm of Betfair’s horseracing team responsible for monitoring movements in the market. Each and every one of th... Read more

Martin Peters, alongside hat-trick hero Sir Geoff Hurst, remains the only England player to have scored in a World Cup final.

In a long an... Read more

The Four by Four column is unique to betting.betfair because it contains not just one author, but four regular football writers from the top four d... Read more

Failing your theory test twice doesn't augur well for a stellar career in motorsport, and despite a stellar turn in a Formula Ford car at Castle Co... Read more

Michael Cox grew up watching 1990s Serie A on Football Italia, which guided him towards a mindset where organised defences and tactical switches ar... Read more

Paul is the current champion National Hunt trainer based in Ditcheat, Somerset.

His racing career started off in the saddle but though he ... Read more

An elegant stroke-maker, who batted as either an opener or at number three, Michael Vaughan was the last English player to be ranked number one Tes... Read more

Romilly began his career in sports editorial at Sports Advisor magazine in 2002. He has since written as a sports journalist for papers as varied a... Read more

Some would say only a fool would take advice from a man who turned down the opportunity of Champions League football to watch his side battle it ou... Read more

Richard Dunwoody rode his first winner in May 1983 and soon went on to establish himself as one of the all-time greats of National Hunt racing, win... Read more

Will Greenwood is one of England’s greatest ever rugby players, as well as one of the sport’s most engaging, intelligent and witty characters.

For the last two decades, Steve has combined life as a punter with contributions to the broadcasting industry, as well as working as a writer and c... Read more

Fiercely proud of his Welsh roots, Phil was born (1971!) in St Asaph Hospital, which is also the birthplace of Barry Horne (Everton legend, NOT the... Read more

Adam Brookes had been hooked on racing since childhood before he took the plunge to travel south from his Birmingham home and arrive in Chelmsford,... Read more

Andrew’s interest in horse racing (and betting!) dates back to his days at University and, following a brief spell working for a bookmaker, he was ... Read more

Having trundled through a linguistics degree at Lancaster University, where he spent more hours studying form than the structure of language, Marti... Read more

Will is a professional cricketer with Durham CCC, and has a passion for all things sporting. He was coerced (bullied) into every sport as a child, ... Read more

Andrew Sheret has been hooked on racing since trips to local courses Redcar and Catterick.

A career in racing seemed the logical ste... Read more

As editorial manager, Dan Thomas has overall responsibility for betting.betfair and Betfair Football.

I joined Betfair in March 2011, final... Read more

Richard describes himself as a ‘sports fanatic, pure and simple’. He combines his love of the game with writing about it, with a particular emphasi... Read more

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A long-established consumer and business journalist, Alex Lee has supplemented his income by successful punting ever since his advisory role on the... Read more

After graduating from high school, Ken Rudulph enlisted in the Army. He completed his basic training at Fort Benning, Ga., then went to Fort Hood, ... Read more

Brian set up his own training business in Lambourn in 1992 starting with just eight horses, one of them owned by his ever supportive close friend R... Read more

Michael has been a licensed trainer since 1989 and has trained over 1000 winners. His most famous victory to date was without doubt Motivator's tri... Read more

Timeform’s Phil Thompson has been a racing enthusiast since a young age and has always wanted to work in racing. Phil initially took a different ca... Read more

Rich Perloff has been a fan of the Sport of Kings since January 2, 1971, the day he saw his first live horse race. How can he remember the date so ... Read more

Isabel Mathew has always been passionate about the industry from a young age. She has experience in several racing jurisdictions in Europe and furt... Read more

Based in Rio de Janeiro since 1994, Tim Vickery writes and broadcasts on South American football for the BBC, World Soccer magazine, Talksport, sam... Read more

JSE-listed Phumelela Gaming And Leisure Limited is the horseracing and/or tote betting operator in seven of South Africa's nine provinces. Based at... Read more

No, not the former England goalkeeper, and no, not the baddie off Ramsay Street, I am Paul Robinson, the first ever winner of Betfair's Read more

Now this is the story all about how
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Joe Szekeres is the latest member of staff to emerge from the BHA Graduate scheme and currently works at Timeform as a content writer in the editor... Read more

Jamie Sanderson is the name, football writing is the game.

A prolific five-a-side centre forward, Jamie gave up the glamorous life of Sunda... Read more

He’s sparred in the ring with Ricky Hatton, trained with a Premier League football club, played darts with a World Championship finalist, and chatt... Read more

Gareth Purnell is our short priced expert. Gareth has built up an enviable reputation through his exchange betting advices for a number of publicat... Read more

Harry has worked in the sports industry since he left university in 1998. For the last seven years he has been reporting on golf events around the ... Read more

Hooked on racing from a young age, Timeform’s Matt Gardner enjoys both flat and jumps action but definitely prefers the summer days of the flat sea... Read more

My true loves in life are Arsenal FC, T20 Cricket, and ATP Tennis. Oh and of course the odd flutter.

I’ve had an Arsenal season ticket sin... Read more

Gary is co-founder of the award winning Internet site Racing and Sports, recognised as a leading dedicated online publisher of racing information a... Read more

Michelle Yu is a valued member of the TVG team, based in Los Angeles.

A graduate from the British Horseracing Authority Graduate Programme in 2003, Martin spent seven years working for the Press Association before lea... Read more

Hannah is a sports journalist with ESPN, where she is currently working in productions. Having just finished her BA (hons) Multi-Media Journalism d... Read more

Donald McCain has been in racing for most of his life, learning his trade from his father - Aintree legend Ginger, who saddled the winner of the wo... Read more

Gordon's training career could hardly have begun with a bigger bang, as he trained the former Paul Nicholls inmate Silver Birch to win the 2007 Ain... Read more

Since being introduced to racing during his early teens Paul has found himself completely hooked on the sport of Kings. He soon realised that he wa... Read more

Chris Williams has worked at Timeform since 1977 and has been a handicapper and comment writer on both the Flat and jumps, and was well on his way ... Read more

Opta collects, packages and distributes information on around 60,000 sporting fixtures every year, from over 30 different sports in around 70 count... Read more

Simon has been obsessed with reality TV ever since the heady days of Pop Idol, Popstars and Fame Academy. Back then, acts who entered actually had ... Read more

I am one-hundred per cent a real ‘Soccer-widow’, by definition, “a lady whose marriage dies during football matches”. But I am also a mathematicia... Read more

Paolo Bandini is a sports writer and broadcaster specialising in European soccer and American football. He writes weekly columns on Serie A ... Read more

My background is from the IT industry where I worked as a software consultant for more years than I care to remember. However, when offered a volu... Read more

Blame Lydia Hislop’s grandpa for her obsession with racing. From the moment he left her pram outside FA Brookes Turf Accountants in Wolverhampton, ... Read more