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October 31, 2020November 24, 2020Neil Fredrik Jensen

Nobby wore glasses and won the World Cup

I’VE SAT next to two members of the 1966 World Cup winning team, and both are no longer with us. I’ve been in the same bar as two others and I saw one of the England legends snip a ribbon to open a social club. To be in the company of players who achieved something […]

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July 11, 2020July 11, 2020Neil Fredrik Jensen

Big Jack… shrewd and forthright football man

HE WOULD be the first to admit that he was not the most sophisticated player or that he never expected to win the honours that came his way, but Jack Charlton was every bit a “football man”, from his club career at Leeds to his time as a manager that gave Ireland its finest moments […]

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Game of the People is edited by Neil Jensen, an experienced corporate and football writer published in more than 40 publications worldwide.

In his career, Neil has been a magazine editor, website editor, speechwriter, advertising copy writer and ghost writer. He is a member of the Football Writers’ Association and the Football Collective and a Freeman of the City of London. He is also a columnist for Football Weekends and Chief Executive Officer of Isherwood Editorial.

Neil has also worked for the BBC and SKY Sports over the years and has interviewed some of the big names in British and European football. He has also had four books published, Chelsea FC The first 10 years (1986), The Men from Fishponds Road (1995), Tales of the Town (2017) and Mittel – European Football Stories (2018). He is currently working on his fifth book, Those very nearly men, which will be published in 2022.

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