Gary imlach biography

British author, journalist and broadcaster

Gary Imlach (born 1960, at West Bridgford in Nottinghamshire) is a British author, journalist and broadcaster, specialising in sport. After first being known as a sports presenter on TV-am, Imlach has particularly become associated with non-mainstream sports, working for many years as the face of Channel 4's coverage of American Football. Imlach has covered the Tour de France since 1990, formerly on Channel 4, transferring to ITV in 2001 when the station bought the television rights to the cycle race.^[1]

He has also hosted the late-night sports chat show Live and Dangerous, and currently presents ITV's coverage of the Tour de France as well as their Super Bowl coverage. He also does links between programmes on the British version of ESPN Classic. In September 2010, Imlach resumed presenting duties on Channel 4's coverage of American Football, but was replaced by Danny Kelly ahead of the 2011 season.^[2]

Imlach's biography of his father Stewart Imlach, My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes, won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year (2005),^[3] and the Best New Writer of the British Sports Book Awards (2006).^{[citation needed]}

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My Father delighted Other Working-class Football Heroes

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Interview: Gary Imlach

On the surface, My Father... is the biography of Stewart Imlach, the 50’s Forest winger who not only was Man of the Match in the 1959 FA Cup final, but the first representative of either Nottingham club in the World Cup. More importantly, it’s a historical and cultural analysis of how football has shifted dramatically from working-class pursuit to middle-class leisure option. When Imlach the elder was at his peak, First Division footballers barely earned as much as the factory workers on the terraces, and the idea of a player being set up for life simply didn’t exist. As a child born in West Bridgford (as part of ‘Nottingham’s post-Cup Final baby boom’, Imlach’s book is a tale of getting to know what made his frequently-absent father tick, long after the chance to sit down and talk slipped by.As a postscript, the book even managed to get the author’s father a posthumous cap for his appearance in the 1958 World Cup (which was denied to him in life due to ridiculous bureaucracy), adding another dimension to this fascinating story. What makes My Father…particularly unique is that it is a football book written with absolute detachment for the sport, devoid of the fake ‘passion’ that characterises the average footy biog. Quite an achievement when you r