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Who the hell is Chris Hunt?

Chris Hunt is a freelance magazine editor, journalist and author. His latest book 'World Cup Stories: The History Of The FIFA World Cup' has just been published by Interact to accompany the BBC TV series. Over 60,000 copies have been sold of the first edition of his definitive football encyclopedia, 'The Complete Book Of Football', while the second edition will be published in the UK in 2006 by Harper Collins and in various foreign language editions around the world.

For eight years Chris Hunt was Managing Editor of Britain's biggest selling football magazine, Match, while more recently he has been the Editor of many of the special editions of rock music magazines Mojo, Q, Uncut and NME, including those on The Beatles, John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Oasis, U2, Bruce Springsteen, mod and punk rock.A regular contributor to Four Four Two, Chris Hunt has also been a byline football columnist and diarist for Sport First, Football First and lad magazine Ice. He has worked as a broadcast journalist for BBC Radio 5, and has contributed to numerous magazines, including The Sportsman, Mojo, Uncut, 90 Minutes, Record Mirror and Roy Of The Rovers. His travels around Japan for the World Cup in 2002 were documented in the BBC TV programme Beckham For Breakfast.

Chris has a website: ChrisHunt.biz

Chris's Articles

Chris Hunt’s World Cup Diary: Week’s 3 & 4

Ely-based author and journalist Chris Hunt is travelling around Germany covering the 2006 World Cup. [continued]

Chris Hunt’s World Cup: Week 2

Ely-based author and journalist Chris Hunt is travelling around Germany covering the 2006 World Cup. [continued]

Chris Hunt’s World Cup: Week 1

Ely-based author and journalist Chris Hunt is travelling around Germany covering the 2006 World Cup. [continued]