Ben Lyttleton
Ben Lyttleton is a London based football journalist, consultant and author for both adults and children.
Lyttleton wrote 'Twelve Yards: The Art & Psychology of the Perfect Penalty'. He also authored ‘Edge: What Business Can Learn from Football’. He has written a series of ‘Football School’ books for children with Alex Bellos which have been longlisted for the UKLA 2018 Book Award and shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award in 2017.
He has also written for Time, The Guardian, Sports Illustrated, and FourFourTwo As well as the Evening Standard, The Blizzard, Eurosport, Sky Sports The Daily Telegraph, The Scotsman. and So Foot.
He has appeared on the ‘Beyond the Pitch’ podcast, As well as the BBC, ‘Planet Fùtbol’, Al Jazeera, Off The Ball, and ESPN.
He started on Total Football, When Saturday Comes and ‘Football Italia’ magazines and edited ‘Football Espana’.
He also acts as a consultant for Soccernomics and has advised association football clubs and national football governing bodies on business strategies for developing new products to the football market. When asked by FourFourTwo Lyttleton chose as his favourite football book The Miracle of Castel di Sangro by Joe McGinniss.
