James Pearce Author

When they set out to revolutionise sports writing around the Premier League in the summer of 2019, The Athletic assembled the best team in UK journalism. They include James Pearce, the superbly-connected beat reporter recruited from the Liverpool Echo to cover LFC week-to-week; Oliver Kay, the award-winning feature writer and author signed from The Times; Simon Hughes, author of seven books about Liverpool; Daniel Taylor, the four-time winner of the Football Writer of the Year award; and Raphael Honigstein, the celebrated German football expert who provides in-depth reporting on Jurgen Klopp’s rise to the top of English football.