Andy Brassell

English writer and broadcaster

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

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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

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1. ^ "Andy Brassell: Marveaux eager to make up for lost time". 2 December 2012.
2. ^ "Vox in the Box: Andy Brassell". 7 April 2016.
3. ^ "Andy Brassell - Mirror Online". www.mirror.co.uk.
4. ^ "Andy Brassell". Independent.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2022-05-07.
5. ^ Storey, Daykin &. "Andy Brassell - theBlizzard.co.uk". www.theblizzard.co.uk.
6. ^ "Andy Brassell". FourFourTwo.
7. ^ "Analysis: European football expert Andy Brassell on our Champions League draw 25 August 2017 - News - tottenhamhotspur.com". m.tottenhamhotspur.com.
8. ^ "Would Lacazette Improve Arsenal? (Ft. Euro Expert Andy Brassell) - ArsenalFanTV.com". 26 January 2016.
9. ^ "European Football Show, 5 live's Football Daily - BBC Radio 5 live". BBC.
10. ^ "Andy Brassell".
11. ^ 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
12. ^ Rushden, Max (23 September 2017). "Knowledge and nonsense – in the studio with Guardian Football Weekly". the Guardian.
13. ^ "The (transfer) window of discontent and your essential Champions League almanac from The Totally Football Show with James Richardson". www.stitcher.com.
14. ^ "Interview: Andy Brassell". 23 February 2009.
15. ^ Gary Parkinson (November 26, 2016). "FourFourTwo's Best Football Books Ever: The Writers' Choices". fourfourtwo.com.