Description
Journalism
Writing
I'm a freelance sports journalist based in the East Midlands specialising in football and concentrating on the fortunes of Leicester City in the Premiership; Derby County, Notts County, Nottingham Forest, and Mansfield in the Nationwide League; and Burton Albion and Matlock Town from the non League circuit.
Services currently and recently provided to clients by Phil Matthews Sports Media Services include the following…
Commentary and interviews for ITV s GoalRush programme and VisionRams T V
Principal TV football commentating for Leicester Cable 7 Television Network
Full interactive commentary on the World Wide Web for Derby County FC
Full match commentary, interviews and analysis on the F A Vase Final under commission from VideopixVideo Production Company
Full match commentary on behalf of numerous football clubs for Planet Football
Commentary and regular match updates for numerous football clubs on behalf of ClubCall
Feature writing for award winning websiteSocceritis.com, Zoofootball.com, and feature columnist for Soccerflash.com
Regular columnist on Derby County for Sport First newspaper and occasional features for the paper
Weekly columnist for Channel 4 Teletext about Derby County
General sport interviewing and reporting for Anglia Television, Talksport, Independent Radio News, R T E, Teamtalk 252, Radio Derby, Radio Trent, Ram FM, Rampage Radio and Century 106FM
Regular interviews, match reporting and feature writing for the Burton Mail, Derby Evening Telegraph, and Derby County Matchday Magazine along with the Daily Express and BBC Radio 5
Head of Sport for Pride FM, the community radio station for the city of Derby, including production and presentation of a weekly programme mixing conversation, interviews and informed analysis of sporting news
Commentary and reporting on England Full, Under 21, Under 18 and Women’s Football matches, several Wembley football finals, F A Cup semi-finals, the Umbro International Tournament and European under 18 and under 21 fixtures
Commentary and reporting on American Football World Bowl from Murrayfield, the NatWest Cricket Final from Lords, the Uniball Basketball Trophy from the NEC Arena, the Davis Cup from Wimbledon, and World Championship Boxing
Commentary on County Cricket, Budweiser League Basketball, and top class snooker
Conducted numerous interviews with sports personalities from Sir Stanley Matthews and Devon Malcolm to Kriss Akabussi and Jonas Bjorkman.
Phil Matthews Details
E-mail philm@football8.freeserve.co.uk
Location Derbyshire, UK
Telephone 01332 510515(home)
07788 618041 |
