Michael Calvin
Michael Calvin was born on August 3rd, 1957 and is currently 67 years old. Michael Calvin was born in Hertfordshire, England.
Michael Calvin is a writer and journalist.
During his 12 year run as Chief Sportswriter on
The Daily Telegraph, he established a global reputation. He held similar positions at
Mail on Sunday and
The Times, and is a columnist for the
Sunday Mirror.
Twice Michael’s been named Sportswriter of the Year, twice been named Sports Reporter of the Year and been honored at the British Press awards six other times. Michael won the Sports Journalists’ Association Sports Writer of the Year prize in 1992 and won British Sports Book Award in consecutive years with
The Nowhere Men and
Proud.
He took a 4 year long sabbatical from journalism in order to help out and run the English Institute of Sport, which provides strategic support to 35 Olympic sports.
The Nowhere Men: The Unknown Story of Football’s True Talent Spotters is the winner of
The Times British Sports Book Award for 2014 and is a fascinating insight into the enclosed world of football scouts in the UK.
One teen boy plays football in this suburban park, and his name is Raheem Sterling. The call is made that somebody should get down there quick, it’s something special.
Another boy is Jack Wilshere, 8 going on 28. The referee, who’s an Arsenal scout, spirits him away from Luton Town.
This young goalkeeper struggles on loan at Cheltenham Town in League Two. He’s Jack Butland. Within mere months he’ll be playing for England.
This is football’s hidden tribe. Scouts are everywhere yet nowhere, nameless and faceless, despite making the informed choices worth millions. Michael opens up this hidden world of theirs, examining their disconnected lifestyles, petty betrayals, and unconsidered professionalism of men that spend long and lonely hours on the road.
For
Family: Life, Death, and Football: A Year on the Frontline with a Proper Club, Michael followed lower league UK soccer team Millwall FC through one emotional promotion season.
There for their first day of training, he was on the substitutes’ bench at Wembley some 333 days later. In an environment that is less than glamorous, he vividly depicts management and players as family men, and close to their roots.
Whose Game Is It Anyway?: Football, Life, Love & Loss examines football being incredibly distant from its fans. Many became alienated by the shameless self-interest and greed of the Premier League, and nobody is able to predict how the global game would look after the pandemic.
In this book, Michael searches for any reason to believe. Written during the COVID-19 crisis, the book’s a thought provoking, deeply personal account of the role that sport, especially football, plays in everyday life. Part manifesto, part memoir, it takes the reader on a tour of the world’s greatest sporting occasions and into its outposts in sub-Saharan Africa, the Amazon Basin and the Southern Ocean.
Michael Calvin: Awards & Accolades
Calvin's book, The Survivor was nominated for the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence, Best Nonfiction Crime Book, in 2024.
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Michael Calvin: F.A.Q
When was Michael Calvin Born? How old is Michael Calvin?
Michael Calvin was born on August 3rd, 1957. Michael Calvin is currently 67 years old.
Where was Michael Calvin Born?
Michael Calvin was born in Hertfordshire, England and is English.
What was the first book Michael Calvin wrote?
The first book written by Michael Calvin was Family: Life, Death And Football, published in 2010.
What was the most recent book Michael Calvin wrote?
His most recently released work was A Completely Different Game on July 23rd, 2024.
Will there be any more books by Michael Calvin?
Michael Calvin does not have any upcoming books with a set publication date within the next few months at this time.
How many books has Michael Calvin written?
Michael Calvin has written 12 books. All of his books are Non-Fiction Books.