Andy Brassell is an English writer and broadcaster.
Brassell specialises in European football, and works as a pundit across many forms of media, such as Talksport, the BBC, BT Sport and ESPN,[1] as well as newspapers such as The Guardian,[2] The Independent, The Daily Mirror and the Daily Star.[3][4] He has also written for magazines such as The Blizzard,[5] FourFourTwo.[6] He has contributed to the website for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur,[7] and Arsenal fan TV.[8]
On the BBC, Brassell regularly contributes to BBC Radio 5 Live's Monday Night Club, and the European football show. He was previously a regular on Up All Night's World Football Phone-In .[9]
On talkSPORT, he regularly features alongside Danny Kelly on Trans Europe Express, a show on every Sunday night from 9.00 pm which looks back at the weekend's European football action.[10]
For The Football Ramble, Brassell contributes weekly to their On the Continent podcast, as well as regular Football Ramble Daily episodes.[11]
As well as appearing on Football Weekly podcast,[12] after the post-James Richardson split, he has also appeared on Richardson's subsequent venture The Totally Football Show.[13]
Personal life
Brassell is a fan of AFC Wimbledon.[14] When asked by FourFourTwo, Brassell chose as his favourite football book Phil Ball's Morbo, a book about rivalry and the historical and societal contexts of Spanish football.[15]
References
- ↑ "Andy Brassell: Marveaux eager to make up for lost time". 2 December 2012.
- ↑ "Vox in the Box: Andy Brassell". 7 April 2016.
- ↑ "Andy Brassell - Mirror Online". www.mirror.co.uk.
- ↑ "Andy Brassell". Independent.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2022-05-07.
- ↑ Storey, Daykin &. "Andy Brassell - theBlizzard.co.uk". www.theblizzard.co.uk.
- ↑ "Andy Brassell". FourFourTwo.
- ↑ "Analysis: European football expert Andy Brassell on our Champions League draw 25 August 2017 - News - tottenhamhotspur.com". m.tottenhamhotspur.com.
- ↑ "Would Lacazette Improve Arsenal? (Ft. Euro Expert Andy Brassell) - ArsenalFanTV.com". 26 January 2016.
- ↑ "European Football Show, 5 live's Football Daily - BBC Radio 5 live". BBC.
- ↑ "Andy Brassell".
- ↑ Once The Football Ramble became Football Ramble Daily, Brassell began hosting with Jules Breach on their show 'Jules and Andy.' https://radiostakhanov.com/onthecontinent/ Archived 2018-01-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Rushden, Max (23 September 2017). "Knowledge and nonsense – in the studio with Guardian Football Weekly". the Guardian.
- ↑ "The (transfer) window of discontent and your essential Champions League almanac from The Totally Football Show with James Richardson". www.stitcher.com.
- ↑ "Interview: Andy Brassell". 23 February 2009.
- ↑ https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/fourfourtwos-best-football-books-ever-writers-choices%3F_format%3Damp