James Montague

James Montague is an award-winning journalist who writes about football, culture and politics across the globe. He has reported from over 65 countries for the New York Times, World Soccer and the Bleacher Report, amongst others. He also features regularly on the BBC World Service’s World Football podcast. His previous books are ‘When Friday Comes: Football in the War Zone’ and ‘Thirty-One Nil: On the Road with Football’s Outsiders’, which won Football Book of the Year at the 2015 British Sports Book of the Year Awards. Sports Illustrated described him as ‘the Indiana Jones of soccer writing’.

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