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# David-Brayley.co.uk

Freelance Sports Writer & Literacy Consultant

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## Posts

- [Blog](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/blog/)
- [Thank You For Being a Friend](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/thank-you-for-being-a-friend/) - An insight into an author’s book launch
- [These Are The Golden Days](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/these-are-the-golden-days/) - Music Blog
- [Sixteen Tons…of memories](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/16-tonsof-memories/) - I must admit, I love a cliché. And, working in the world of sport, there’s no better environment than a sporting one that is more suited to serving up a classic cliché or two: ‘one game at a time’, ‘they talk a good game’, ‘it’s a game of two halves’, ‘the ball’s in your court’…the
- [All You Need Is Love](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/all-you-need-is-love/) - About six years ago I had an email from someone called Pete Jones. We’d initially met after he was helping put together a book to celebrate 100 years of Swansea City FC and had known that I written a couple of Swans related books so asked if I’d like to contribute. He was now reconnecting
- [Welcome to the House of Fun](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/welcome-to-the-house-of-fun/) - ‘You don’t stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.’ Not my quote, but that of Maurice Chevalier. And I can’t imagine I’ll ever write a sentence quoting that particular French icon ever again, but nonetheless, Monsieur Chevalier made a very good point. I’m not sure exactly when it was
- [Brief Encounter](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/brief-encounter/) - There are some moments in life, despite the briefness of the encounter, that live with us forever. July 2009, I was walking around the new retail development at Portsmouth Harbour with my wife Debbie, kids Georgia and Olivia, and my sister, Jackie’s, family - husband Nigel and my nieces Rebecca and Katy. As usual, the
- [Jimmy, Jimmy!](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/jimmy-jimmy/) - Our lives are constantly affected by fate. Or is it destiny, a higher power or maybe just plain luck? But whatever it is, our lives are often impacted by weird, wonderful and frankly, inexplicable coincidences. In 1973, I remember being marched into the hall of Brynhyfryd Primary School with the rest of my class. I
- [Champion of Champions - special edition!](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/champion-of-champions-special-edition/) - A new story with a comprehension for pupils to do at home whilst the coronavirus is on.
- [We Can Be Heroes....](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/we-can-be-heroes/) - Hero, legend, icon. Words that get bandied around quite cheaply these days, especially in sport. I actually get embarrassed when I recall the number of times I’ve been asked to describe my sporting hero, and realise just how many different names I’ve offered in response - Botham, Toshack, Borg, Woosnam, Latchford, Edwards, Ovett, Thompson, Dalglish,
- [Patron of Reading at Ansford Academy](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/patron-of-reading-at-ansford-academy/) - The job of an author is a varied one. Obviously, there is writing, whether it’s books, blogs or magazine articles, writing is the mainstay, and I love it. But, like many authors, I put a large emphasis on sharing the joy of reading and writing too. To this end - in just the last six
- [Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow.](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/let-it-snow-let-it-snow-let-it-snow/) - It snowed this week. You hadn’t heard about it? I’m not surprised, that’s one problem with our country, we don’t make enough fuss about extreme weather, we just crack on as if if nothing happened and nobody says a thing about it. Yeah right. I think it started on about Monday, predictions of a storm
- [Nothing Ever Happens](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/nothing-ever-happens/) - I really enjoy putting this blog together. It’s in my thoughts for the bulk of the preceding week, and something usually happens during that week to get the creative juices going. That then leads me to write about whatever that topic might be, usually for anywhere between 1,800 to 2,500 words, using them to try
- [The Song Remains The Same](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/the-song-remains-the-same/) - Imagine if you had a favourite record, a favourite song, that always perked you up when it came on the car radio, because you hadn’t heard it in a while. I can think of loads. From the top of my head, ‘Baker Street’ by Gerry Rafferty, it always makes me smile, gets me reaching for
- [The Sloop John B](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/the-sloop-john-b/) - When you write a regular blog, you often have to fight the temptation to be controversial. When I wrote for a Brighton based sports magazine for a few years, Sussex Sport, I was actually paid to be controversial. Not Katie Price bat shit crazy controversial, but part of my brief was never to sit on
- [Don’t Stop](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/dont-stop/) - Inspiration comes in many forms. A book, a film, a quote, a conversation, a press conference, even a meme on social media. Mostly, whatever the source, we don’t see it coming, that’s often what provides the inspiration in the first place. It’s what surprises us, which then inspires us. But real, genuine inspiration, well that’s
- [Working 9 to 5...What a way to make a livin’](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/working-9-to-5-what-a-way-to-make-a-livin/) - I was asked a question this week. It was by a teenager from a school in north London. He asked, “Do you enjoy your job?”. Even though I was only silent for about 5 seconds before I gave him my honest and considered answer, in that 5 seconds there was an explosion of thoughts and
- [Money, Money, Money.](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/money-money-money/) - If the rumours are to be believed, in the next few hours, Arsenal’s Chilean striker, Alexis Sanchez will become a Manchester United player. Nothing overly controversial about that if you’re a keen follower of football. Player comes to Premier League from abroad, largely unknown, prospers at a leading team, almost making himself irreplaceable, and then
- [Field of Broken Dreams](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/field-of-broken-dreams/) - I watched an excellent documentary this week. It was called “No Hunger in Paradise” and was made by one of my favourite sports writers and authors, Michael Calvin. It’s a subject that has interested me since my own playing days - the development of local, young footballers from the schools and clubs of their locality,
- [Walking on the Moon](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/walking-on-the-moon/) - My formative years were spent in Brynhyfryd in the late sixties and early seventies, and despite leaving there a month after my ninth birthday, the area still holds an incredibly fond place in my heart and contains many great and vivid memories for me. One of those is of the moon. Yes, the moon. In
- [Film Review - Jack To A King](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/film-review-jack-to-a-king/) - Ok. I have an idea for a novel. A once proud football club falls on hard times. So hard in fact that they nearly go out of business. The club is bought by the "villain" of the piece for a pound. In fact, let's say he came all the way from Australia with his pound.

## Pages

- [Home](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/)
- [Books](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/books/) - George’s Fateful D-Day Recommended by UKSLA! On 11 November 2025, Remembrance Day, George’s Fateful D-Day had the honour of being chosen as one of the UK School Library Association’s (SLA) ‘must-have’ new reads to be shared with pupils. This is a great honour for the book, being recommended alongside children’s authors as eminent as Tom
- [About Me](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/about-me/) - I am a national Award-winning author, freelance sports writer and education consultant from Swansea who, using my lifetime interest in and around sport, has created a career based on sports writing and delivering school based educational literacy programmes using sport as the driver. In addition to this, I am an experienced speaker and presenter, in particular delivering many
- [Education - School Author Visits](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/sports-literacy/) - Some images of the many hundreds of visits I have made to schools of Years 3 to 11 over the past ten years or so, always promoting the importance of Reading for Pleasure and sharing the inspirational story of my journey to becoming an award winning author. News - Premier League Author Day at Swansea
- [Champion of Champions](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/champion-of-champions/) - REVIEWS FOR CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS Click here to view the book and order your copy 2 February 2018 - Amazon Customer: A genuinely fantastic read! With the author's history in sports writing you may be forgiven for thinking (because you'd be wrong) that this is a cycling book with a bit of a story on
- [Walking on the Moon](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/walking-on-the-moon/) - My formative years were spent in Brynhyfryd in the late sixties and early seventies, and despite leaving there a month after my ninth birthday, the area still holds an incredibly fond place in my heart and contains many great and vivid memories for me. One of those is of the moon. Yes, the moon. In
- [Newspapers](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/sports-columns/newspapers/) - Newspapers The ghosting work I did with Tony Cottey on “There’s Only Two Tony Cotteys” was continued via Tony’s extremely popular weekly cricket column in Wales’s largest circulation newspaper, The South Wales Evening Post. The column ran from 2004 until 2011 and it became a popular and well respected column, in which in a ghost format for
- [Magazines](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/sports-columns/magazines/) - The ghosting work I did with Tony Cottey on his book has been continued via Tony’s extremely popular monthly cricket column in the acclaimed Brighton based sports magazine “Sussex Sport”, where I also have my own comment column – “David Brayley, The Final Word” – where I comment on the recent issues around the world of sport. Between 2009-2013,
- [Internet](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/sports-columns/internet/) - I was approached by the English Premier League Index website in the 2011-2012 Premier League Season to begin writing articles about Swansea City. The website features statistical based articles using the world renowned Opta Stats football database, the owners of the largest and most detailed sports database on earth. Read some of my articles here: Swansea City Outshine
- [Sports Columns](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/sports-columns/) - Internet Sports Columns Magazines
- [Contact Me](https://www.david-brayley.co.uk/contact-me/) - Please use the form below to get in contact with me. Thanks

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