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  • Frank Gregan

    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

    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... Read more

  • Bill Elliott

    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 ... Read more

  • Alsy

    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 c... Read more

  • Sean Calvert

    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... Read more

  • Paul Moon

    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

  • Nik Wardle

    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 ... Read more

  • Dan Fitch

    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

  • David Croft

    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 ha... Read more

  • Mike Norman

    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

    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 spe... Read more

  • Barry Millns

    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

  • Paul Krishnamurty

    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 Walton

    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

  • Nick Shiambouros

    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

    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

  • Tareq Quiroz

    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... Read more

  • Wayne Bailey

    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 pr... Read more

  • Geoffrey Riddle

    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 a... Read more

  • David Artell

    David Artell started his career with his hometown club Rotherham United and went onto play 41 times during his 5 year stay. He was an integral par... Read more

  • Andrew Hughes

    Andrew Hughes was abandoned on Exmoor as a baby and raised by a family of ponies. As a result, he grew up with a unique understanding of the equine... Read more

  • Graham Cunningham

    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

    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

    Ed Hawkins has worked in national newspapers for 11 years, the last six of them as a cricket correspondent in two spells at the Racing Post with a ... Read more

  • Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco

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


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

  • Jonathan Hobbs

    Jonathan Hobbs has worked for the Racing Post since 1989, having previous worked for Radio Luxembourg. Originally the Catford correspondent for the... Read more

  • The Betfair Contrarian

    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.

    O... Read more

  • Adam Deadman

    Adam first got into greyhounds when his parents took him to Wimbledon as a youngster. Since then his interest grew and with school mates the dogs w... Read more

  • Joe Dyer

    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

  • Andrew French

    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

  • Leighton Vaughan Williams

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

  • Ian Dean

  • Richard Walker

    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 j... Read more

  • Steven Rawlings

  • Eoin Ryan

    I’ve been lucky enough to be involved in the betting industry since leaving college. I grew up going racing with my late father who was an avid rac... Read more

  • Dave Allan

    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

  • Jack Houghton

    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

    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

  • Timeform

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

  • Johnny Ward

    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

  • Dave Farrar

    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

  • Simon Mundie


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

  • maxliu

    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 Rahman

    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

    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

    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 colum... Read more

  • Robert Hughes

    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 pointles... Read more

  • Ralph Ellis

    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 Caudell

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

  • Mike Robinson

  • Marcus Bateman

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

    ... Read more

  • James Eastham

    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 visi... Read more

  • Ben Herd

    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 o... Read more

  • Andrew Atherley

    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

  • Robin Adams

    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

  • Razhan Miran

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

  • Ed Nicholson

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

    In a vari... Read more

  • George Riley

    "Georgeyboy" Riley is a sports presenter for BBC Radio Five Live and rugby league commentator for the BBC.

    He began his Five Live career in... Read more

  • Stephen Kennelly

    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

  • Tobias Gourlay

    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. Rece... Read more

  • Jaymes Monte

    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

  • Malcolm Pannett

    Malcolm has been a horseracing journalist since 1988 and has enjoyed stints at Racecall, Racing & Football Outlook, Ladbrokes and William Hill. He ... Read more

  • XY Factor

    The XY Factor was developed in 2008 to present, in graphical format, the chances of a horse in a selected race each day. The higher the bar on the ... Read more

  • The Joker

    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

  • Robin Keck

    I am a 38-year-old 'City' based headhunter and an ex-banker. My sporting interests include cricket, horseracing and football but whilst supporting ... Read more

  • Dan Geraghty

    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

  • Carl Harris

    Carl Harris is a professional punter, racehorse owner and betting advisor.

    For the past four years Carl has made his living exclusively fro... Read more

  • Ollie Bellwood

  • Guy McCrea

    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

  • Perfect Punter

    For the next year or so betting.betfair.com football columnist, match previewer and tipster Dave Farrar will be embarking on a journey of betting d... Read more

  • Paul Jacobs

    Paul Jacobs has worked in the world of sport since he left his under performing educational career behind in 1985.

    His time in charge of th... Read more

  • Will Hayler

    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

  • Mike O’Donnell

    I am currently a student studying Journalism & Media Cultures/Sport and hoping to work my way in to sports journalism. I was unfortunate enough to ... Read more

  • The Lord

    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

    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

    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

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