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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 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 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 correspondent. He has worked in national newspapers for 12 years, the majority at the Racing Post whe... 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

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

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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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 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 years from playing county, regional, national, international tennis up u... 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.

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

I'm a right-back playing for Aldershot Town in League Two, having left Shrewsbury Town in the summer of 2009 after four good years at the club. 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

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

In a vari... Read more

"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

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

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

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

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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

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 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 is a professional punter, racehorse owner and betting advisor.

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

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 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 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 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

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

Kevin Cadle is a legendary figure amongst fans of American sport in Britain.

As coach of a host of British basketball teams, Cadle won num... 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

Vancouver will be the ninth Olympic Games that Mike Haggerty has reported from.

Having attended scores of world, world junior and European ... Read more

Vince Shuley is an Australian freelance writer and photographer based in Whistler, Canada. He spends the seasons writing and shooting adventure spo... 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

Former Essex and England seamer Mark Ilott made his Test debut in the third match of the 1993 Ashes series, a game in which England gave debuts to ... 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

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 11-year-old Keith Melrose’s soul to horseracing. Ten years and a wo... Read more

From the time his father took him to the races at Lingfield Park at the age of seven, Adam was immediately captured by the sport, taking a real int... 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

The self-styled ‘Steven Gerrard’ of the office, due to his all-round ability, Shahin brings a wealth of knowledge to Timeform House, having worked ... 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

David Johnson joined Timeform in 2004 after spending a year working as a betting shop manager rather than pursuing a career in Journalism after Uni... 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 is Timeform’s Communications Manager, a role which sees him act as Timeform’s face in the media.

Part of Kieran’s role is t... Read more

Andrew honed his racing knowledge during regular visits to Town Moor with his Grandfather, who taught him the art of the ten pence each-way Lucky 1... 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

The first big game I covered was England's 5-1 win against Germany in Munich back in 2001. I remember talking to the players afterwards in a state ... Read more