Des Kelly

Profile: Full name: Des Kelly Area of interest: Football Journals/Organisation: Daily Mail Email: d.kelly@dailymail.co.uk Personal website: Website: MailOnline / Des Kelly Blog: Representation: Networks: https://twitter.com/#!/deskellydm

Biography: About: Education: Career: Today newspaper: Chief sports reporter (1991); Sunday Express: Football editor (1994); Daily Express: Assistant editor and head of sport (1996); Daily Mirror: Assistant editor and head of sport (1997), Deputy editor and head of sport (2001), Acting editor (2004); Daily Mail: Sports columnist, 2004- Current position/role: Football commentator, Sports Columnist also writes/written for: Other roles/Main role: Other activities: Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: My Life In Media - 'I'm paid to give my opinion, which is something I do voluntarily anyway, as my long-suffering friends will testify' - The Independent, 12th December 2005 Broadcast media: Video: Controversy/Criticism: Yellow card for Des Kelly - Peter Preston, 2nd July 2006 Awards/Honours: UK Sports Columnist of the Year, 1999 Scoops: Other: Announced separation, in 2007, after five year relationship with Carol Vorderman

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Daily Mail: Column name: Remit/Info: Football Section: Role: Commentator Pen-name: Email: d.kelly@dailymail.co.uk Personal website: Website: MailOnline / Des Kelly Commissioning editor: Day published: Saturday Regularity: Weekly Column format: multiple topics Average length:

Articles: 2009 Why icon Giggs is top of my list - Everything appears to be a list these days, but if I was pinned down and forced to pull together a roll call of the Premier League's greatest icons, Ryan Giggs would be right at the top - 13th February 2009 Show pony Becks rides off for a new 'adventure' - When David Beckham headed off to the Americas, he cast himself as a sporting pioneer and made suitably grand pronouncements in keeping with his role as some great adventurer in the New World - 7th February 2009 There is nothing genius about Rafa's tantrums, they are just crazy - They say the only way to measure the distance between madness and genius is with success - 31st January 2009 Why Harry's mind games missus the big picture - There is one incontrovertible truth in sport as in life. If you continually tell someone they are useless, the chances are they will soon prove you right - 23rd January 2009 Here's the God, the mad...and the ugly - Well, he can take that 'I Belong to Jesus' T-shirt off for starters , unless they've struck oil in Bethlehem this week - 16th January 2009 Pietersen caught out as vanity proves costly - ‘Niles, I’ve got news for you. Copernicus called and you’re not the centre of the universe.’ - Frasier Crane, Frasier - 9th January 2009 Why the magic of the cup must overcome greed of the transfer window - This is FA Cup third round weekend, a familiar landmark in the football calendar, a date that is supposed to resonate with history, nostalgia and meaning - 2nd January 2009

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