Communications & Publications

Perhaps best described as one of the (very) old school, Jez founded the influential and multi-award winning Sunderland fanzine way back in 1989 – whilst running a pub in Newcastle! The experience he gained in surviving behind enemy lines prepared him well for the fifteen year career as a football writer, which he embarked upon in 1993.

Jez has written for both broadsheet and tabloid newspapers, both national and local, in Britain and Ireland, and was named BT Sportswriter of the Year in 1999, following a series of stories exposing racist activists who’d infiltrated North East football crowds. Prior to being appointed editor of the FSF’s members’ magazine The Football Supporter in June 2007, Jez was Senior Sportswriter at North East regional newspaper The Sunday Sun, and also wrote a regular column in Sunderland AFC’s match-day programme.

His life beyond the beautiful game is largely ruled by on-going obsessions with painfully obscure 60s soul music, over-priced anoraks, and rare adidas trainers.