Andy Brassell is an English writer and broadcaster.
Brassell specialises in European football and works as a pundit across many forms of media for the likes of
Talksport, the
BBC,
BT Sport, and
ESPN as well as newspapers such as
the Guardian,
The Independent,
The Daily Mirror and the
Daily Star and magazines such as
The Blizzard (magazine)
''The Blizzard'' is a quarterly football magazine edited by Jonathan Wilson, published in both download and hard copy formats by Blizzard Media. The magazine was originally sold on a pay-what-you-like basis.
The Blizzard took its name from an e ...
,
FourFourTwo, and contributing to the website for
Premier League club
Tottenham Hotspur, and Arsenal fan TV.
On the BBC Brassell regularly contributes to
BBC Radio 5 Live
BBC Radio 5 Live is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that broadcasts mainly news, sport, discussion, interviews and phone-ins. It is the principal BBC radio station covering sport in the United Kingdom, broadcast ...
Monday Night Club, and the European football show. He was previously a regular on Up all night's
World Football Phone-In
The ''World Football Phone-in'' is a British weekly radio phone-in show about association football around the world. Hosted by Dotun Adebayo, it is part of the nightly '' Up All Night'' programming on BBC Radio 5 Live which he presents. The footb ...
.
On talkSPORT he regularly features on Trans Europe Express with
Danny Kelly , a show on every Sunday night from 9PM looking back at the weekend's European football action.
For
The Football Ramble Brassell contributes weekly to their ‘On The Continent’ podcast with
James Horncastle.
As well as appearing on
Football Weekly podcast after the post-
James Richardson (presenter)
James Oliver Richardson (born 29 May 1966 in Bristol) is an English television presenter and journalist.
He is best known as a former presenter of Channel 4's '' Football Italia'' programme and former host of '' The Guardian'' '' Football We ...
split, he has also appeared on the new Richardson venture
The Totally Football Show.
Personal life
Brassell is a fan of
AFC Wimbledon
AFC Wimbledon is an English professional Association football, football club, based in London Borough of Merton, Merton, London, that plays in the EFL League Two, after being relegated from the EFL League One following the 2021–22 EFL Leagu ...
. When asked by
FourFourTwo Brassell chose as his favourite football book Morbo by Phil Ball (2001), a book about rivalry and the historical and societal contexts of Spanish football.
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References
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English sports journalists
English podcasters
Television personalities from London