CaughtOffside Columnists

Sports broadcaster and journalist covering multiple World Cups, Olympic Games, Grand Slams and Majors and interview the likes of Lionel Messi, Usain Bolt, Roger Federer and Tiger Woods.

Christian Falk is the head of football at the BILD Group, responsible for reporting on FC Bayern, Bundesliga and acts as team leader of the national team reporters.

Fabrizio Romano is often referred to as the “King of Football Transfer News”. He has been working with Sky Sports in Italy since he was 19 years old, hosts the "Here We Go" podcast and has a well earned reputation for being the most trusted transfer news pundit in the football industry.

Haydn has been a licensed agent for nearly 10 years and is now the Managing Director of Next Generation Management, who have recently teamed up with the football division at First Artist, who have been one of the leading sports agencies for over 30 years. Haydn has been involved in multi-million-pound deals and has a plethora of legal and sports experience, representing some of the brightest prospects in football along the way.

Diego Maradona and the England football team were clients when Jon Smith launched the world-famous First Artist agency in 1986. He's gone on
to guide the careers of the nation’s most celebrated players
and managers, masterminding many of the world’s biggest transfers
and, alongside Sky Sports, was one of the architects of the English Premier League.

Jonathan is a Ligue 1 specialist journalist based in Paris as CBS Sports man on the ground. He provides CaughtOffside with in-depth insight and analysis on French football transfers. Previously, he has worked with Sky Sports, ESPN, Bleacher Report & BEIN Sport.

Mark R. Halsey was an English professional football referee who primarily refereed in the Premier League from 1999 to 2013 and was on the league's list of Select Group Referees from its creation in 2001 until his retirement. He refereed the League Cup Final between Tottenham and Chelsea in 2008.

Mark works as a pundit with BT Sport and CaughtOffside.com

Football journalist and broadcaster who has reported on Liverpool FC since 2009, providing in-depth coverage, analysis and reporting of the club around the world for GOAL and the Liverpool Echo.

Credited with discovering Raheem Sterling and Marcus Rashford, Rob Segal has been a football agent since 1996. He was one of the first agents in the world to become fully licensed and has since overseen more than 500 transfers, including Rob Van Persie's move to Arsenal and Marcel Desailly to Chelsea.

Over the course of the last 26 years, Rob has worked in two major football agencies, one PLC and most recently the YMU Group, who have the likes of Manchester United's Brandon Williams and Tottenham Hotspur's Harry Winks on their books.

Roberto has been a FIFA licensed agent since 2002 and now runs RDF Football, representing Cafu and Marcus Alonso amongst others. Previously, he was Director of Football for Sunderland AFC.

Stan Collymore is a football pundit and former player, signing for Liverpool FC in 1995 for an English transfer record fee of £8.5m. Stan also played for Nottingham Forest, Aston Villa and England. He works with Canal+, TalkSport, Daily Mirror and BT Sport as a pundit.

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Andrew is one of Caughtoffside's senior transfer reporters. During his years working in sports media, he has built up a vast network of contacts and is often responsible for covering some of the biggest stories in football, including how Jack Grealish's £100m British transfer record to Manchester City unfolded.

Grew up in California. Henrik Larsson is god.

David Faulds is CaughtOffside's go-to guy on all things Scottish. As well as being Editor of The Celtic Star, David writes a weekly column on CaughtOffside.

Creator of @rayadosninety | Freelance football writer for @PSGTalk, @caughtoffside, and @The_Laziali | News media for @BNMStaff

Sports writer and editor of a number of websites. If it involves a ball, I'm all over it. Wannabe golfer. SAFC fan for my sins.

Prolific football animal.

21. Writer for Stretty News and Caught Offside.

Writer for CaughtOffside.com. Featured in the Express and Star, Stretty News and Just Arsenal. Faithful follower of West Bromwich Albion. Lover of all things to do with the beautiful game, from record-breaking stats to weird and wonderful moments on the pitch.

Writer for CaughtOffside.com, also featured on Goal, Sky Sports and The Sport Review. Long-suffering Man Utd fan desperate for a return to the glory days. Football-mad wordsmith with a unique opinion on all aspects of the beautiful game, driven by a passion to provide supporters with hard-hitting, informative and entertaining stories.

Jamie is a football journalist based in the Valencia region, Spain. Previously, he worked on Reach PLC titles for three years, including football.london, Birmingham Mail and many of the network's other titles. He is a BJCT and NCTJ-accredited senior journalist with specific focus on Spanish football. Jamie is also a published author having written Bluebird Heaven following a period covering Cardiff City.

Formerly with beIN Sports, MARCA and FC Barcelona. Fan of the Catalan giants since the mid 1970s, and lover of all things La Liga and European football more generally. Frustrated teller of stories surrounding the beautiful game in the English top-flight and beyond. Two books published: 'Huddy: The official biography of Alan Hudson' and 'Messi: The King of Camp Nou.'

Keith Hackett is a former football referee, who began refereeing in local leagues in the Sheffield, South Yorkshire area in the 1960s and went on to officiate Olympic and European Championship matches in the 1980s and Premier League football matches in the 1990s. Keith is counted amongst the top 100 referees of all time and is a former head of the Professional Game Match Officials, which manages the refereeing across all Premier League and Football League matches.

Keith started writing for caughtoffside in 2021.

Author of Our Stories & Our Songs, Take Me To Your Paradise, Walfrid & The Bould Bhoys, The Holy Grounds Of Glasgow Celtic

Host of The Celtic History Podcast

Writer for caughtoffside.com & theCelticStar.com

Football writer for CaughtOffside, Fulham season ticket holder, hunter of the biggest transfer gossip across world football.

Editor-in-Chief of CaughtOffside.com circa 2009 through 2015.

Editor-in-chief of CaughtOffside.com. Previously of Metro, Daily Cannon and others. Started out blogging out of love for Arsenal, now increasingly driven to despair by the Gunners, but with an ever-growing love of all the stats, gossip and general weirdness and wackiness the football world has to offer.

Founder of the Boy Hotspur and avid Substacker

Freelance Sports Writer for CaughtOffside.com and TheBoyHotspur.com

Football writer, long-suffering fan, proud father

Ruairidh is an expert in La Liga and Spanish football. He writes for the leading Spanish football publication, Football Espana, hosts the La Liga Lowdown podcast and will be providing CaughtOffside readers with a weekly digest of the key news from Spain.

Mass Comms graduate, Sports Writer and an avid Liverpool fan.

Writer for CaughtOffside.com, also featured for Empire of the Kop, Stretty News and United Report. Avid Queens Park Rangers fan (sadly). Lover of all things to do with English and Spanish football (even VAR) with a keen eye for stats.

A lover of football in all its forms. I just can't get enough of the stuff. Do not ask who I support as I will simply have to refuse to answer on the grounds it may affect your opinion of my writing. Staff Writer

Steve is a freelance world football writer. Covering PSG for PSGTalk.com and featured on CaughtOffside.com

Editor at CaughtOffside.com. Milan fan from the golden days to the more recent banter eras, but lover of all football.

I search out and find the latest news and bring it to you as quickly as a Sausage Dog possibly can!

Generally, I'm responsible for the news reports that offer no particular view or opinion at all. Proper, old-school, unbiased news reporting (but not uninteresting because sometimes the photos I use are alluring)

Writer for Caughtoffside.com. St Johnstone fan and scout for an English League two side. I try to focus on the weird and bizarre happenings in football. Also trying to start some sort of crusade against VAR.

I'm an American soccer writer. I love the beautiful game, but I don't really understand it, so I try to teach others about it through journalism. https://thejediverse.com/