Media & Communications in Football
Professional Career
MACESPORT, Founder & Managing Director
LEICESTER CITY FC, Press Officer, Comms Director, Chief Operating Officer
BIRMINGHAM DAILY NEWS, Deputy Sports Editor
PETERBOROUGH EVENING TELEGRAPH, Chief Football Correspondent
Location
Nottingham, UK
Languages
English
Biography
Paul is one of the world’s leading football and sporting public relations practicioners. He is the founder and chairman of international agency Macesport which has been advising clubs, governing bodies, elite athletes and brands including Vauxhall, the NFL, William Hill, the English Professional Footballers Association (PFA), Under Armour, Soccerex, Major League Soccer and Leicester City for over 15 years.
He has enjoyed over 30 years in professional sports, firstly as a trained journalist before becoming one of Britain’s first football press officers at Leicester City in 1991 and went on to become the club’s Chief Operating Officer and an executive Board Director.
He has authored a 250,000 word book on the world’s oldest professional soccer club Notts County, where he was a non-executive Board Director.