Henry Winter | |
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Born | 18 February 1963 |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
Occupation | Sports Journalist |
Years active | 1986–present |
Awards | Football Journalist, Specialist Correspondent of the Year, British Sports Journalism Awards |
Henry Winter (born 18 February 1963) is an English sports journalist. He was most recently the Chief Football Writer for The Times, and previously a Football Correspondent for The Daily Telegraph. [1]
Winter was educated at Westminster School, before graduating from the University of Edinburgh in 1986.
Winter spent a year producing a magazine on sport in London after graduation before joining The Independent at its launch in 1986, writing a sports and schools column.
He moved to The Daily Telegraph in 1994, and produced a daily webcast on the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, giving specific information on the England team. [2] He joined The Times in 2015 to become Chief Football Writer. [3]
Over the course of his career, Winter wrote FA Confidential with former FA chief executive David Davies, [4] and ghost-wrote the autobiographies of Liverpool F.C. players Kenny Dalglish, John Barnes and Steven Gerrard. [5] He wrote Fifty Years of Hurt: The Story of England Football in 2017. [6]
He also makes regular appearances as a pundit on Sky Sports' Sunday Supplement and BBC Radio 5 Live.
Winter revealed on 10 April 2024 that he would be leaving The Times after being made redundant. [7]
Winter was named Specialist Correspondent of the Year at the British Sports Journalism Awards in 2004, 2009, 2010 and 2013, and Football Writer of the Year in 2016. [8] In 2010, he was named among the top 10 most influential sportswriters in Britain by the trade publication, Press Gazette. [9] [10]
Winter's older brother is academic Timothy Winter. [11] He is a trustee of the African social enterprise Alive & Kicking, which manufactures footballs in Kenya and Zambia.
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