Greg Lea

Who is Greg Lea?

Hailing from London, England, Greg has been a freelance football journalist for eight years. He studied Politics at the University of Nottingham, graduating in 2014. During his time there, he contributed to the sports section of the university magazine, and further whetted his appetite for a future role in journalism through work experience stints at FourFourTwo, The Guardian and The Independent. Greg spent the second half of 2014 in Italy, staying with a local family in Sicily to brush up his language skills and undertake a tutoring placement. He combined this with writing about Serie A for various independent blog sites, such as These Football Times and Back Page Football. This voluntary work soon led to paid freelance positions with FourFourTwo, Squawka and Goal.com.

Upon returning to England, he became a full-time freelancer and received Premier League accreditation for the first time in 2015. He has regularly attended matches ever since, delivering live blogs, on-the-whistle match reports, press conference articles, analytical pieces and general features.Greg worked as the London-based Premier League correspondent for The National, a newspaper based in Abu Dhabi for two years. When this role came to an end, he became the editor of The Set Pieces, where he commissioned stories from high-profile football journalists such as Michael Cox and Tim Vickery. During another editorial project, he worked closely with James Horncastle.