author index

Aadam Haladh

19-year-old aspiring sports journalist studying at UCFB.

Aadit Mehta

Like to voice my opinions about Manchester United sometimes.

Aaron Feld

Absolute Chelsea

Providing the latest Chelsea news, transfers, match coverage and opinion/analysis.

Adam Booker

Football journalist of over two years. Covering sport in both Europe and North America.

Adam Hamdani

Adam is the Audience Development Lead for LADbible Group. He has previously covered a number of sports including football, boxing and MMA. Nowadays he just sadly waits around for Arsenal to win another trophy.

Aditya Selvam

I’m a Computer Science student and a very passionate Manchester United supporter! Feel free to connect with me on Twitter about my articles, anything Manchester United, or even just to say hello!

Adnan Riaz

Adnan Riaz is a journalist for SPORTbible. He studied for a B.A. in History at the University of York and followed it up with an M.A. in Multimedia Journalism at MMU. Before he started writing about sports, he spent over four years in the gaming press. He has worked for several publications, including Hardcore Gamer, LADbible and the Manchester Evening News. Follow him on Twitter to find out what he is working on next. Got a story tip for Adnan? Email him: [email protected]

Aisha Nozari

Alan Bond

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Aldy Rasyid

22-year-old aspiring journalist and sportscaster from Indonesia. Proud to be a part of UtdDistrict.

Alex Brotherton

Alex Brotherton is a journalist at SPORTbible. He has previously worked with publications including the Manchester Evening News, GOAL and BBC Sport. He is a football fanatic, but also dabbles in tennis and American football. He can often be found watching dreadful non-league football.

Alex Chivers

Alex Merson

Alex Newton

Alex Newton is a freelance writer, who's written for SPORTbible, Bleacher Report, The Mirror and the Express and Star. While not hosting his West Bromwich Albion podcast TheBoingCast you can find him (usually suffering) at WBA home and away games.

Alex Reid

Alex Reid is a writer at SPORTbible who’s previously strung words together for FourFourTwo, Boxing News, The Guardian and, yes, Cruise International (it’s about big ships, not Tom). Interests range from football and boxing to real sports like WWE and darts. He is not a cage fighter.

Alexander Duke

Alfie Culshaw

Alfie is a football journalist who focuses on Liverpool FC and Manchester United

Andy Vandervell

Arion Armeniakos

Opinions, features and everything in between for the UtdDistrict. Also currently a prep sports journalist based in California.

Ataas Sheekhuna

Law student/freelance writer. Produce articles on everything from analysis to opinion pieces.

Bart Smallman

Ben Carpenter

Ben Garrard

Ben is a Football journalist who focuses on Liverpool. In his spare time you will find him playing Golf

Ben King

Ben is a Sports journalist focusing on Football

Ben McAleer

Frustrated Tottenham fan. Football expert. As seen on the Guardian, the Independent, Sky Sports and the Irish Examiner.

Ben McCrum

Ben is a sports journalist who specialises in football and MMA. He has written for publications such as Manchester Evening News, WiganToday, Manchester World and beIN Sports. Throughout his career he has interviewed top athletes in MMA including Tom Aspinall and Michael Bisping.

Ben Willcocks

Ben is a sports journalist who specialises in football, cricket and F1. He has been published in MailOnline, The Times and The Sun and has also worked for Team GB and West Ham United. He has interviewed several sports stars, including former Wales rugby international Jamie Roberts and WBO cruiserweight champion Lawrence Okolie. Ben is also a self-professed FPL addict, finishing 118th in the world in 2020-21.

Brad Cox

Trends Writer for SPORTbible. Previously worked for Squawka.

Brandon Evans

Media production graduate. Content writer. Mancunian.

Bryce Webster

Cain Smith

Website lead, Editor and Admin at UtdDistrict

Callum Owen

19-year-old writer, studying multimedia sports journalism at UCFB Wembley.

Calum Allsop

Calum Allsop is an Arsenal writer and contributor to SPORTbible, focusing on features, transfer news and team news.

Cameron Bhamra

University Football Coach and analyst at United View.

Cameron Frew Cameron Frew

Chadley Nagel

Contributor for Absolute Chelsea.

Charisa Bossinakis

Charlie Metcalfe

Chris Byfield

Sport journalist with experience writing on football, rugby, boxing and the Olympics. I'm also a Crystal Palace fan. Please don't hold this against me.

Chris Houston

Chris Nee

Chris Stonadge

Chris is a Sports journalist who specialises in Liverpool, Man United and boxing

City Xtra

Providing the latest Manchester City news, transfers, match coverage and opinion/analysis.

Colin Hubbuck

Daisy Phillipson

Dan Critchlow

Dan is an Arsenal writer and contributor to SPORTbible, focusing on transfer news, team news and the youth teams.

Dan Hargraves

Dan is a freelance sports journalist currently in his final year studying Football Journalism at the University of Derby. Currently working for SPORTBible and Reach PLC, he has also worked for Snack Media amongst others. His proudest work thus far came at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games where he was a live blogger for the Commonwealth Games Federation, providing sports coverage on the tournament's official website to over a billion people.

Daniel Marland

Daniel is a social editor for SPORTbible after moving from the writing team. Nearly scored past Stormzy at Old Trafford once.

Daniel Nuttman

Contributor for Absolute Chelsea.

Danielle Fowler

Danielle Fowler is the Affiliates Writer at LADbible Group, working across LADbible, Tyla, GAMINGbible, SPORTbible and UNILAD. She covers the latest trends in fashion and beauty, writes about standout gadgets, and reviews the must-have products everyone's talking about.

Danielle Smith

Danny Young

Football Writer.

Dave Mason

Declan Harris

Writer for City Xtra and Inside The Phillies.

Declan Hoskins

Declan is a freelance Sports journalist and student at Warwick University

Devesh Arora

I love following football transfers. Twitter admin and writer for UtdDistrict.

Dharnish Iqbal

Tactics nerd and writer, can be found pensively searching Inter Milan’s 98-99 team on Wikipedia at midnight.

Dom Smith

Football writer specialising in the England national teams and the Premier League. Founder of EnglandFootball.org. Words in The Independent, Sunday Express, Sunday Mirror, Daily Star & more

Dominic Akiboye

Writer for UtdDistrict. Mostly writing tactical pieces and matchday articles.

Dominic Booth

Dominic is a freelance journalist for SportBible who also works for the Evening Standard and Sporting News and was formerly a Manchester United writer and editor for the MEN. He's a big Test cricket fan and Arctic Monkeys obsessive.

Dominic Smithers

Dylan Penketh

Director/Lead UtdDistrict | Featured on BBC Sport & SPORTbible

Ed Arnold

Ed is an English student at Exeter University and a freelance journalist

Edward Burnett

Sports Journalist.

Ella Scott

Ellis Cochrane

Evan Lloyd

Evan Lloyd is an editor at AFCstuff and lover of all things Arsenal.

Ewan Moore

Finn Williams

Contributor for Absolute Chelsea.

Freddie Pye

Owner/Founder and Content Lead at City Xtra

Gabriel Tann

Gabriel Tann is a freelance Sports journalist

Gabriella Ferlita

George Nash

George Priestman

Huge Football, Boxing and Film fan. Also, a Chelsea fan living in the North West. Looking to break into the world of sports media by any means necessary!

Gerard Bands

Australian sports journalist covering Manchester United.

Godwin Mathew

Godwin loves all things Sports and if he is not writing, he is definitely playing football, basketball or engaging in some other form of physical activity. He is a Chelsea fan and began following the NBA because of the late great Kobe Bryant.

Hamish MacRae

20 years old. Glaswegian.

Harry Greenwood

International Relations Student and Writer for UtdDistrict

Harry Siddall

Freelance sports journalist

Harry Winters

Sports Journalist.

Henry Clark

Henry Cowling

Manchester United Season Ticket Holder and Journalism Student.

Jack Kenmare

Jack is a Senior Journalist who enjoys a long read. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of Football Manager wonderkids from 2005 to the present day, and has interviewed a handful of FM's finest, including Freddy Adu, Supat Rungratsamee and Mika Aaritalo.

Jack Woolfenden

Jackson Langford

Jaden Diaz-Ndisang

Jaden is a Sport journalist focusing on Formula One

Jake Lennard

Jake is an Arsenal writer and contributor to SPORTbible, specialising on player features and tactical analysis.

Jakob Barnes

Jakob is a freelance journalist with more than a decade's worth of experience in the industry. A Tottenham Hotspur fan who predominantly covers football news for SPORTbible.

James Aldred

James Evans

Contributor for Absolute Chelsea. Journalism Graduate.

James Grimditch

James is a freelance Sport journalist and student at the University of Cambridge

James Hilsum

James Law

James Law is a writer who can't stop playing sports games for his sins. You can find his work in Eurogamer, PC Gamer, Rock Paper Shotgun, NME, and more. Never ask him about his latest Football Manager save - he'll talk your ear off for days.

James Taylor

James is a sports journalist who specialises in football and Formula 1. He has written for publications such as The Times, MailSport, Sunday Express, Sunday Star and Manchester Evening News. Throughout his career, he has interviewed international footballers and rising Olympic stars. In his spare time, he has the misfortune of being a season ticket holder at Manchester United.

Jamie Skelly

Contributor for Absolute Chelsea.

Jayden Collins

Jayden Collins is a Journalist at SPORTbible. He has worked across multiple media platforms in areas such as sport, music, pop culture, entertainment and politics. He is part of the editorial team for LADbible Australia.

Jen Thomas

Jen is a freelance journalist and radio presenter.

Joe Adams

Joe is a Journalist for SPORTbible with a primary focus on football. He has previously covered a number of other sports including boxing, rugby and F1. Wishes he was born left-footed.

Joe Bray

Joe Butterfield

Writing for City Xtra since 2019. Loves Pablo Zabaleta, Riyad Mahrez's first touch, and writing articles about why I'm annoyed by things.

Joe Harker

Joe Hulbert

Football and NBA Writer, History Graduate, Eyal Berkovic Superfan.

Joe Lynch

Joe runs the website, manages twitter and writes funding bids at East Molesey Cricket Club. Joe is a History student at Exeter University

Joe Nuttall

Writing articles for UtdDistrict. Sports Journalism student at UCFB.

Joel Middleton

Qualified journalist and political communications expert with a love of all things football, Formula One and darts. Never seen without an Irn-Bru.

John McDougall

Jonathan Bray

Josh Lawless

Josh is a sports journalist who specialises in football and WWE. He has been published by Curzon Ashton FC, Late Tackle, Manchester City FC, The Mirror, Read Man City and Manchester Evening News. He provides coverage of professional wrestling and has covered two WrestleMania events for SPORTbible.

Joshua Nair

Freelance football writer.

Jozef Kostecki

United fan for all my life. Old enough to remember our last league title, young enough to not remember it well.

Katey Lovell

Kristian Walsh

LADbible System Account

Laura Sanders

Laura is a journalist working across all of LADBible's brands.

Lewis Browning

Louis Writtle

Sports Journalist. Studying at University of Gloucestershire. Founder of @talkmcfc on Instagram. Louis XI on YouTube.

Luke Davies

Journalist with expertise covering football - both in England and abroad - as well as combat sports.

Luke Stockwell

Luke is an Arsenal writer for afcstuff. He has a wealth of experience in broadcasting and specialises in features and breaking news.

Marcus Banks

Marcus Banks is a social media editor for SPORTbible. He previously worked for publications such as the Liverpool Echo, Daily Mirror, Manchester Evening News and Dexerto. Specialises in football and MMA.

Marcus Chan

Mark Sanderson

Mark Whitehead

Matthew Debono

Owner/Lead of Absolute Chelsea. Featured on Forbes and 90min.

Matthew Dove

Matthew Holt

Matthew is a Freelance Sports Journalist who also works for Manchester United, FourFourTwo and Reach PLC. He supports Scunthorpe United.

Matthew O'Hara

22-year-old Sports Journalism Masters Student and Lifelong United Supporter based in Carlisle

Max Sherry

Max Sherry is a journalist for SPORTbible Australia. After migrating Down Under from London as a teenager, he instantly fell in love with Aussie sport and its culture. From NRL to AFL, cricket to rugby — you name it, Max watches it (with a beer in hand, of course). During his time at Fox Sports, he worked in the football department covering the Premier League, A-League, Socceroos and Matildas. Born a stone's throw away from West Ham's training ground, Max is obviously a die-hard Liverpool fan.

Michael Slavin

Michael Tunstall

Write about Manchester United every now and then. Had the privilege to witness Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Lee Grant in the flesh.

Mitesh Lakhani

Mitesh is an Arsenal writer and contributor to SPORTbible, focusing on thought pieces around the club and the general direction it is heading in.

Mudeet Arora

Lifelong Manchester United fan who is passionate about expressing his opinions on the club and football in general.

Nasir Jabbar

Nasir Jabbar is a journalist at SPORTbible. He graduated from Bath Spa University with a BA in Media Communications. He's a combat sport aficionado and has contributed to MMA websites AddictedMMA and CagePotato. Nasir has covered some of the biggest fights, while interviewing the likes of Conor McGregor, Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury and Darren Till. He's also an avid Bristol City fan.

Nathan Allen

Writing about football since 2017, shortly before moving from the south coast to Manchester Metropolitan University, and graduated with a Diploma in Business and Spanish. When he's not writing, he's fantasising about unfeasible holidays or watching unhealthy amounts of film and TV.

Natnael Manaye

I'm a tactical analyst who aspires to someday become a professional head coach in the beautiful game.

Nick Emms

Digital Content Editor for Absolute Chelsea. Multimedia Sports Journalism Graduate. Experience: Charlton Athletic.

Nick Khairi

A dedicated football writer and content creator, who enjoys storytelling through both written and visual mediums. Highly passionate about analysing football styles and tactics, particularly when it comes to Manchester United.

Ninad Barbadikar

Freelance sports journalist based in Manchester

Padraig Kavanagh

Patrick Ribeiro

Patrick Ribeiro is a football journalist, contributing to SPORTbible with Arsenal-related news, features and match-day content.

Patrick Rowe

Rachel Finn

Rachel Lang

Rebecca Shepherd

Reuben Rosso

Contributor for Absolute Chelsea.

Robbie Hawken

Robbie is an Arsenal writer and contributor to SPORTbible, focusing on features, data and Arsenal Women.

Robert Calcutt

Content Writer for Absolute Chelsea. Qualified and accredited journalist.

Robert Worthington

Rob is a Sport journalist specialising in the Premier League, Champions league and Boxing

Rory O'Callaghan

Rory O'Callaghan is Editorial Lead at SPORTbible. He has previously worked for Sky Sports News, MailOnline and Reach covering football, cricket, boxing and MMA.

Ryan Baldi

Ryan McDermott

Management, Editor, Writer, and Admin at UtdDistrict

Ryan Sidle

Ryan is a journalist for SPORTbible with over eight years of experience. Passionate about all sports, he mainly covers football and F1 - Daniel Ricciardo once spent an entire interview referring to him as 'Ryan Gosling,' still his proudest moment.

Ryan Smart

Live in constant hope of the top flight as a Preston North End fan. Written in the past for SPORF, GiveMeSport and more.

Sam Collins

Contributor for Absolute Chelsea. Sports Journalism Student.

Sam Tabuteau

Contributor to Absolute Chelsea.

Shaun Webbley

Manchester United fan since 2007, studying football journalism at the University of Derby.

Shruti Sadbhav

Sports journalist based in India. Avid football fan and writer. Trying my best to transcribe the misery and magnificence of this sport.

Simon Binns

Simon Binns is the managing editor of LADbible Group. Previously a journalist for the BBC, The Guardian and Manchester Evening News, he's also a long suffering Middlesbrough fan.

Srinivas Sadhanand

Football journalist, midfield enthusiast, human. In that order.

Stephen Hurrell

Stewart Perrie

The SPORTbible Team

Thomas Schlachter

Thomas is a football journalist who loves to write about all things Arsenal.

Thomas Thorn

Tim Fadipe

Tim Fadipe is an Arsenal writer and contributor to SPORTbible, focusing on features, transfer news and team news.

Tom C

Tom is a Fantasy Football expert. He has been the main host of Who Got The Assist?, a podcast dedicated to Fantasy Premier League, providing insight driven by data, since 2017. 6 years down the line, he's older - but whether he's wiser remains questionable.

Tom Cayless

Third-year multimedia sports journalism student at the University College of Football Business Wembley. Previously published for Barnet FC, the Non-League Paper.

Tom Earnshaw

Tom Fenton

Tom Green

Tom Horn

Multimedia Sports Journalism student at UCFB. A Lifelong United fan whose Grandad went to school with some of The Busby Babes. I have cerebral palsy and am in a wheelchair, but that doesn’t stop me from following United around the country!

Tom Jenkins

Tom Jenkins is a Social Editor and Journalist for SPORTBible. Specialises in Football and F1 but has experience covering a variety of sports such as MMA, Boxing and Cricket. Suffers weekly as an Evertonian.

Tom Ledson

Tom Marshall-Bailey

Tom is the Editor of SPORTbible after joining from Reach PLC in August 2022. An Arsenal fan who has covered Huddersfield Town and Leeds United during his career to date in a footballing CV as eclectic as Steve Claridge's.

Tom Wood

Tom Young

Utd District

Providing the latest Manchester United news, transfers, match coverage and opinion/analysis.

Vayam Lahoti

Freelance Multimedia Journalist, Editor - City Xtra, Host of the BLEAV in Man City Podcast, Journalism Student

Velentina Boulter

Will Beaman

Will is a Sport journalist for SPORTbible

Will Carrick Buchanan

Will Evans

Sports journalist with experience writing for local and national titles.

Yusuf Haq

I’m a 19-year-old Economics student going into my third year of University. A keen Manchester United fan with a strong interest in football analysis.

Zack Oaten