Bob Holmes

Bob Holmes comes from a football family – his great uncle, Ben Warren, was a legendary wing-half at Derby and Chelsea, winning 22 England caps before WW1.

Raised in Nottingham, Bob inherited a love for the game but left home at 19 to see the world. A latecomer into journalism, his first piece was about Bill Shankly written from memory in a Nairobi bar.

After his gap decade, he covered sport for The Observer, Evening Standard and Telegraph.

He also wrote books on football, cricket and rugby union. Then the wanderlust – and a Malaysian wife – took him to Australia. After 3 years in Sydney with the Sun-Herald, he came to Kuala Lumpur where he’s a renowned pundit on English football.

In Caesars, Saviours and Suckers, he chronicled the amazing ownership misadventures of British football clubs and then, along with fellow scribe Shiv Das, penned The Legend, the acclaimed biography of V. Nellan, the Malaysian golfer.

Now he’s gone back to a favourite subject, with more stories about Shankly - even claiming he had a hand in Liverpool’s return to their perch.