David Conn is a sports journalist who writes for ''

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''. He attended

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before studying English Literature & Politics at the

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. He has written four books. Three of them, ''The Football Business: Fair Game in the '90s?'' (1998), ''The Beautiful Game?: Searching the Soul of Football'' (2005) and ''Richer Than God: Manchester City, Modern Football and Growing Up'' (2012), focus on the influence of money on modern day English football. His fourth, ''The Fall of the House of Fifa'' (2017), focusses on corruption within football's world governing body. He also ghost-wrote the autobiographies of the 100m hurdles world record holder

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and former Manchester United player

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. Conn has been named sports news reporter of the year three times, in 2004, 2009 and 2013, by the

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, and has been named Football Writer of the Year by the

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three times, in 2002, 2005 and 2009. In December 2013 he was named Sports Journalist of the Year in the ''

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'' British Journalism Awards. His 2009 article for ''The Guardian'', detailing the bereaved Hillsborough families' continuing campaign for justice, prompted the then Labour ministers

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and

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to press for all official documents relating to the disaster to be released. In 2012 Conn was named among the top 10 most influential sportswriters in Britain by the trade publication, ''Press Gazette''. In 2011 he presented a BBC ''Inside Out'' documentary that looked into the ownership issues of

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. He is a supporter of

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Bibliography

*''The Football Business: Fair Game in the '90s?'' (1998) *''The Beautiful Game?: Searching the Soul of Football'' (2005) *''Richer Than God: Manchester City, Modern Football and Growing Up'' (2012) *''The Fall of the House of Fifa'' (2017)

References

External links

David Conn's profile at ''The Guardian''
* Living people British male journalists British sports journalists 1965 births Alumni of the University of York {{UK-journalist-stub