Meet the Writers

The Gaffer

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EPL Talk is the brainchild of internet entrepreneur Christopher Harris, better known to readers as The Gaffer. Born in Wales, Harris is a former journalist who has been a football fan for more than 30 years and now spends his time analyzing the influence of the Premier League around the world from his home in South Florida.

Jesse Chula

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Jesse currently resides in Lexington, KY where he spends the majority of his time immersed in the Premier League, European football, film, music, and books. His definition of 'tricky' is deciding which beer to purchase at his local and he can sometimes be heard talking with those smarter than himself twice weekly on the EPL Talk podcast. Tell Jesse how handsome he is on Twitter @JesseChula.

Kartik Krishnaiyer

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Kartik Krishnaiyer is a lifelong fan and supporter of the beautiful game who has been attending matches in the United States since he was six years old. Between 1981 and 1983 he served as a ball boy for the NASL’s Fort Lauderdale Strikers. He then was often spotted at Lockhart Stadium supporting the Fort Lauderdale Sun of the USL (1984-85) and the Fort Lauderdale Strikers of the APSL (now USL) in the late 1980s. As far as European Football, he supports Manchester City F.C. Kartik has since childhood been a supporter of the US National Team. Kartik is the Director of Communications and Public Relations for the North American Soccer League (NASL).

Matt Hackenmiller

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Matt authored the book, The Hack Report, which was a series of articles surrounding the 2007 Major League Baseball season. Later he worked on the Johnny Archive Fantasy Sports Show podcast and wrote various articles for the website that covered baseball and American football. Along the way, he started to follow the World Cup and the Premier League and fell in love with the “Beautiful Game.” Now Matt spends his free time writing for EPL Talk while watching and reading about as much football as possible.

Alex Muller

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Born in London, Alex is an intern at EPL Talk. His interests include video games, viral videos and, of course, soccer. Supports Manchester United.

Earl Reed

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Earl Reed was raised in the northern Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania on home cooking and ESPN. A sports fan all of his life, Earl identifies with Buffalo, New York as his sports hometown (pictured at the birthplace of "wings"). He developed a love for statistics as a youngster, primarily from the sport of baseball. In college, Earl became involved in radio, serving both as a DJ as well as a play-by-play voice for American football and basketball. He is now a scientist by day, and his love for "real football" was initiated during the 2010 World Cup. Earl also contributes to our sister site MLS Talk, and supports his local Major League Soccer team, the Philadelphia Union.

Karl Sears

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Karl holds a BA in English form the University of Leicester and is trying his darnnest to become a sports writer. He attended his first game in 1996 when he saw Wolves lose 0-1 to Port Vale at Molineux, unbeknown to himself this poor display would endear him to the Wanderers and he has been a fan ever since - you can catch his fanzone blog on Skysports.com. He considers football to be the best sport in the world, but American Football comes a very close second.

Alexander Fairchild

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Alexander Fairchild is a student-athlete at Boston College High School. He plays on both wings for the varsity soccer team and was featured in CNN’s Pass the Ball Around World ad (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQe-3L-nEU8 ). Fairchild has been a proud supporter of Liverpool FC since seeing the “Miracle in Istanbul” in 2005. When not playing soccer, you can find Alex on the slopes, as he is a varsity skier for his school. Other interests include, rap music, college basketball, and reading about the history of the game we all love. You can reach Alex by e-mail (as.fairchild13@students.bchigh.edu).

Chris Machin

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Chris Machin was born into the Wolf Pack (Wolverhampton Wanderers) in 1989 and grew up like many others, on a healthy diet of soccer and music. Machin has been a follower of the Gold 'n' Black since he can remember and a season ticket holder in the famous 'Southbank' for nine consecutive seasons. He harbours aspirations of becoming a professional sports writer/analyst in some format and will be taking his qualifications in a years time.
 Aside from what life throws his way by default of being a Wolves fan, Chris also makes time to live his own version of the American Dream exploring the realms of the NBA, NFL, WWE, NHL, MLS and MLB. He uses this as a platform to write under his creation the ' Trans Atlantic Sports Romantic' on his own domain footydaily.com where Chris shares his thoughts and analysis on all sports in the UK and North America and would love one day to take his work to America and write or report for ESPN in some capacity.

Kristan Heneage

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Kristan is a journalist based in Newcastle and has contributed both editorials and interviews to EPL & MLS Talk over the last year. Also writing features for the website of FourFourTwo his most notable work is the monthly Luke Rodgers blog 'An Englishman in New York'.

Jack Tomczuk

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Jack is a massive Gooner living in Philadelphia. Internationally, he supports the USA. He runs an Aresenal blog, The Clock End at http://theclockend.net/

Joseph Weathered

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The first football game Joseph Weathered watched was on ESPN between Manchester United and Chelsea. He'd heard that the bandwagon pick was Manchester United, the "Yankees of the EPL". Surely not wanting to back the gigantic over-spenders of United, Joseph decided to pick the cool, non-rich, underground team that wasn't the gigantic bandwagon pick; Chelsea (I know, I know). Undeterred, Weathered remained a Chelsea fan and is now fascinated by the money thrown around, the coverage and over-reaction of the media and the passion of the supporters. 9479.net is where you can find more of his work.

Matthew Duncan

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Matthew Duncan is a Sunderland fan, raised in Warwickshire and now residing in Leeds. Slightly obsessed with sports for most of his life he can often be founding ranting to anyone who will listen to him. A Literature Graduate with an interest in the moral and philosophical implications of the game, he is also partial to a good old fashioned argument about tactical intricacies. With an interest in sports on both sides of the Atlantic, Matthew has a great interest in what lessons football can take from the NFL and the NBA in particular. Away from sport, Matthew is most likely to be found in a pub, or in the great British countryside.

Harry Cee

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Harry is a new fan of the game who is looking at it from US eyes. When the NFL lockout left him cold, he looked to the EPL for a warm distraction and discovered a fandom so hot that he wonders how he has gone so long without. He's jumped in feet first and as he is learning he is also teaching others who come after him an appreciation of the Beautiful Game. In the meantime he is still trying to figure out how to get his Baltimore Ravens/Manchester United 'nalia to coexist. Also an avid gamer among other things with both a PS3 and a 360, catch him online sometime!

Martin Lindsay

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Martin is a freelance journalist based in the North East of England. In 2010 he spent three months at BBC Newcastle and has more recently worked for Real Radio North East and written for Sport.co.uk. He is a keen blogger and Newcastle United fan.

Frank Sale

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Frank is 16 years old, still in school, and is another aspiring journalist/broadcast journalist! He loves writing and runs his own blog. He has a passion for football: Playing it, watching it, writing about it and talking about it. Other interests include sport, news and business.

Laurence McKenna

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Double Pivot

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Double Pivot was once a knee-jerk fan relying on emotion and instinct, DoublePivot was exposed to Gamma radiation that turned him in into a skeptical and analytical supporter. With his new super-powers of tactical analysis and econometrics, he wanders Europe seeking to find underlying truths. But he is still one of the douchey Spurs guys.

Stephen OBrien

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Stephen is a Dublin Ireland native, who currently resides in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is currently 6 months away from graduation at Northern Kentucky University, where he played on a soccer scholarship throughout his 4 years there. Studying to complete a Communications degree, he hopes to become a successful sports journalist in the future. Hobbies include tennis, snooker and anything EPL! Avid Manchester United fan. Attends as many games as possible when he visits home.

Bob Ruediger

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A former college hockey player who is highly passionate about football and especially Manchester City. Bob is currently studying Travel and Tourism at Cal U of PA with hopes of moving to northwest England upon graduation. He puts footy above almost everything but in the little spare time he has Bob likes to play football (soccer), hockey, and lacrosse while also being involved in his fraternity. Bob's biggest challenge in life is living in a fraternity house with two United fans.

Dominic Allen

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Dominic is an avid football fan and aspring sports writer from the West Coast of Ireland. He was handed his love for football at a very young age from his older brothers who grew up during the 70's and 80's. His love for football coupled together with his background in Philosophy has primed him for analying the beautiful game and sharing his thoughts. Above all else, a good game of football , whether it be sunday league or a Champions League final is his true passion. Who does he support? In the word's of a great man “There's only two good teams in Liverpool, Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.”