Paul Hayward (born 6 January 1965) is a British sports journalist and author of 'England Football - The Biography (1872-2022)' - a 150-year history of the England men's team. He was until recently Chief Sports Writer at ''

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,'' and regularly appeared as an analyst on

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' television programme ''

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''.

Career

Hayward began his career as a sports journalist at the ''

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'' before moving to The Independent to become racing correspondent. He then branched into general sport and became Chief Sports Writer at ''

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'' before occupying the same position at ''The Guardian'', ''Mail'' and ''The Observer''. During that time, he was named Sports Writer of the Year in 2002 and 2003 at the

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, and Best Football Writer at the Sky Sports Awards in 1997, 1999 and 2001. Hayward returned to ''The Guardian'' and its sister paper ''The Observer'' in 2009 as a senior sports writer, predominantly covering football, until he re-joined ''The Telegraph'' in 2011, again as its chief sports writer. He took time off from writing in 2015 to undergo cancer treatment but recovered in time to cover the

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. He has also been named Sports writer of the Year at the SJA British Sports Journalism awards in 1996, 2012, 2015, 2016 and 2018. He co-wrote autobiographies with Sir

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, Sir

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and

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(May 2023)

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