Phil McNulty

Phil McNulty is a Liverpool-born sports journalist. He has been BBC Sport’s chief sports writer since July 2000 and will have been there for 16 years in July 2016. McNulty attended De La Salle Grammar School, Liverpool. He covered the FIFA World Cups for the BBC in Japan and South Korea (2002), Germany (2006) and South Africa (2010). He also does sports casting and analysis for BBC Radio on BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio World Service. McNulty was ranked by a (UK) Press Gazette poll among Britain’s top 50 sports journalists. McNulty wrote some 275 sports articles in the six years from May 2007 to May 2013.