Football Insider provides on-the-ground, expert coverage of British football, with a primary focus on the Premier League, Championship, and the Scottish Premiership. Since 2015, we have bridged the gap between national sports news and the local fan’s perspective through our network of dedicated correspondents based in major football hubs including London, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, and Glasgow.
Our editorial headquarters are located in Richmond, London, but our reporting is driven by specialists embedded in the communities they cover. This regional expertise allows Football Insider to deliver exclusive breaking news, deep-dive transfer analysis, and financial insights that traditional national outlets miss.
While our digital headquarters are based in Richmond, London, Football Insider operates as a modern, distributed newsroom. We maintain dedicated Regional Editorial Hubs in Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, and Newcastle. This allows our correspondents to be physically present at stadiums, training grounds, and press conferences, bridging the gap between national scale and local ‘on-the-ground’ insight.
We are able to focus on the clubs our readers care about. This includes Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, Fulham, West Ham and Crystal Palace in London, Liverpool, Everton, Man United, Leeds United, Man City and Burnley in the north, Sunderland, Newcastle United and Middlesbrough in the north-east, and Aston Villa, Wolves, West Brom, Nottingham Forest and Leicester City in the west and east Midlands. We also provide strong coverage of the Scottish top flight, especially Glasgow giants Celtic and Rangers.
Unlike general sports outlets, 100% of our content is dedicated exclusively to British clubs and players, providing the depth that only a specialist outlet can offer.
A football site that is on the NewsNow and Google News networks of trusted websites, our content is written and edited by professional journalists with the aim of bringing you the latest news and the best comment and analysis on the stories that matter.
Our UK Regional Editorial Hubs
- 📍 London: National HQ
- 📍 North West: Liverpool & Manchester
- 📍 Midlands: Birmingham & West Brom
- 📍 North East: Newcastle & Sunderland
- 📍 Scotland: Glasgow (Celtic/Rangers)
Football Insider correspondents are physically based in these regions to provide authentic, on-the-ground reporting.
Our editor Wayne Veysey and transfer correspondent Pete O’Rourke have nearly 50 years experience of covering football news for professional publications, while our team of full-time correspondents and editors have over 60 years combined on-the-ground experience between them.
Impartial, authoritative and credible, we provide top quality original content, including exclusive stories involving Britain’s biggest clubs and players, and great insight from our stable of brilliant pundits led by former PGMOL chief and Fifa official Keith Hackett and ex-Everton and Aston Villa chief executive Keith Wyness.
What makes us different in this crowded marketplace? We have excellent contacts in the football industry, which means you will find the news first here, including the really big stories. We will set the agenda, break stories, provide insight and tell you something that maybe you didn’t know. We will also tell you the story behind the story.
In short, we strive to provide original football journalism that you want to read and that will give you a proper understanding about what is happening in the sport that you love and about issues that you care about.
To show why you can trust us, we have created a section of our site that chronicles stories we have exclusively broken, or been on top of, long before they were extensively trailed in the established media or officially confirmed. You can find this section here.
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The Team
Wayne Veysey
A former news reporter who cut his teeth at the Shrewsbury Chronicle and Shropshire Star in the late 1990s before heading to London where he clocked up nearly a decade-and-a-half at Press Association, London Evening Standard and Goal, Wayne is the founder and editor of Football Insider and is the managing director of Breaking Media Limited.
LinkedIn: Wayne Veysey
Pete O’Rourke
Pete is Football Insider’s transfer correspondent and has over 20 years experience as a football writer, specialising in the deals that make the market whirl. With a CV that includes lengthy spells with Sky Sports and ESPN, Pete has been breaking top-quality exclusives and leaving opponents trailing in his wake during his nine years with Football Insider.
X: @SportsPeteO
LinkedIn: Pete O’Rourke
James Murray
James holds a degree in Sports Journalism and Communications (MA) from the Real Madrid Graduate School. He has experience working for a number of local news outlets as well as the Sunday Mirror and Real Madrid TV. James is from Scunthorpe and has an affinity with Scunthorpe United, but is also a huge West Ham supporter and an expert on all things to do with the Hammers. He started working for Breaking Media in July 2023, initially writing on the Club Sites, where he specialised in West Ham content, before moving to Football Insider – where he is now an expert in football finance, speaking regularly with Stefan Borson and Keith Wyness to generate high-quality content in all things related to finance in the Premier League, Football League, and Scottish Premiership.
X: @James_Murray93
LinkedIn: James Murray
Callum O’Connell
Callum graduated with a degree in Sports Journalism from the University of Brighton in 2022. After a year working for Breaking Media, he started as a full-time correspondent at Football Insider in May 2024, and is an expert in transfer news, working regularly with Pete O’Rourke and Mick Brown to secure exclusives and breaking news on transfers in the Premier League, EFL, and Scottish Premiership. Callum was born and raised in Surrey, and is a huge Crystal Palace fanatic, who’s still bemoaning Michael Olise’s departure to Bayern Munich.
X: @C_OConnellSport
LinkedIn: Callum O’Connell
Evan Lloyd
Evan Lloyd has featured for several websites, including VAVEL, Hayters TV, SPORTbible and Centredevils. He joined Breaking Media in July 2025 after attaining his NCTJ qualification, working first on the Club Sites before moving to Football Insider. Born, raised, and still living in London, Evan is a diehard Arsenal support, who uses his Premier League expertise to give particular focus on deep-dive opinion content and analysis in England’s top flight.
X: @afcevan
LinkedIn: Evan Lloyd
Evan Shaw
Evan began working for Breaking Media in June 2025, when he took on a role writing across their Club Sites. Evan later moved over to Football Insider, where he has become a transfer expert in the Premier League and EFL, working closely with Pete O’Rourke to gain exclusive content, and behind-the-scenes knowledge of all the biggest deals across the football pyramid. Born and raised in Nottingham, Evan is a huge Notts County supporter who graduated with a degree in Football Journalism from Derby University in 2025, having previously combined his studies with work for Football League World, and an internship with Burton Albion Football Club.
X: @evanshaw_8
LinkedIn: Evan Shaw
Harri Burton
Harri graduated from the University of Derby with a degree in Football Journalism in 2023. With prior experience in the media team at Chesterfield Football Club, writing for The Football League Paper and Late Tackle, plus a short stint with the Premier League as a Freelance Consultant, he joined Breaking Media in November 2023 as a Football Writer. Born in Northampton and living in Derby, Harri is huge Manchester City supporter who made the move to Football Insider 18 months ago, and is now a resident expert on refereeing controversies having worked closely with ex-PGMOL chief Keith Hackett, providing forensic analysis on all the contentious moments from the Premier League, EFL, and Scottish Premiership.
X: @Harri_Burton
LinkedIn: Harri Burton
Jack Dawson
Jack graduated from the University of Derby with Football Journalism and a Masters in Journalism in 2022. He has since held roles at Edinburgh Evening News and GRV Media working on both men’s and women’s football. Born in the Staffordshire town of Cannock, where he still resides, Jack is a season ticket holder at his beloved Wolverhampton Wanderers. He joined Breaking Media in April 2025, and initially worked on the company’s Club Sites. Jack would join the Football Insider team later that year, where he is now an expert on Scottish Football, providing extensive coverage of Celtic, Rangers, Hearts, and all the other heavyweights in Scotland’s top flight.
X: @jakdaw74
LinkedIn: Jack Dawson
Oliver Walton
Oliver graduated with a degree in Sports Journalism from the University of Central Lancashire in 2023. He has previously worked for Reach PLC, and has had articles published on BBC Sport and Sky Sports through PA Media. Born in Stoke-on-Trent, Oliver is a massive fan of Stoke City, who joined Breaking Media in 2025 as a writer for Football Insider. He has a laser focus on fan-engagement content in the Premier League and the Championship, while also producing high-quality match-preview articles on all the biggest and most-talked about games.
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LinkedIn: Oliver Walton
Ciaran Morrison
Ciaran graduated with a degree in Football Journalism from the University of Derby in 2024. He has previously worked for Stats Perform as a Live Text Commentator and for PA Media as a Football Reporter. Residing in the West Berkshire town of Hungerford, Ciaran is a lifelong Arsenal supporter, who joined Football Insider as a Football Writer in June 2025. Ciaran specialises in football finance, working closely with James to produce in-depth content from the likes of Keith Wyness and Stefan Borson to delve into the complicated and wide-ranging world of finance in the beautiful game.
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LinkedIn: Ciaran Morrison
The Experts
Keith Hackett
Former FIFA and Premier League referee Keith Hackett joined Football Insider in March 2021 to deliver his exceptional insight into the unique world of refereeing. Never one to sit on the fence, he offers expert analysis into the officials’ performances, as well as the behaviour of players and managers. Ever wanted to know what Jose Mourinho’s really like on the touchline? Hackett’s your man.
X: @HACKETTREF
LinkedIn: Keith Hackett
Keith Wyness
Keith has huge footballing experience through his time as CEO at Everton, Aston Villa and Aberdeen. He now runs a football consultancy advising elite clubs and joined the Football Insider team in December 2023. Keith joins us weekly on the Inside Track Podcast to provide his expert insight.
LinkedIn: Keith Wyness
Mick Brown
Mick has extensive experience in scouting, recruitment and coaching at some of England’s biggest clubs. He spent over a decade at Man United, where he rose to be chief scout, and was also the assistant manager to Ron Atkinson at United and Roy Keane at Sunderland. Mick has also held chief scout or senior scout roles at Tottenham, Blackburn Rovers, Coventry City and Aston Villa, with his most recent role at West Ham coming to an end when David Moyes left the club. He joined the Football Insider team in October 2024 to provide his expert insight.
Stefan Borson
Stefan joined the Football Insider team in June 2024 and provides expert insight on the world of football finance and business. A former investment banker, he is CEO at Watchstone Group PLC.
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LinkedIn: Stefan Borson