Philippe Auclair (UK) is a football writer, broadcaster and investigative journalist.
He is the England football correspondent for Eurosport.fr and Swiss national radio RTS, and a regular contributor to The Guardian and the Guardian Football Weekly (UK) podcast, for which he specialises in governance issues and the geopolitical dimension of football.
His investigations have been published by Josimar magazine, Byline Times and on the websites of the Arabic and African services of the BBC. His biography of Eric Cantona, The Rebel Who Would Be King, was voted 'Football Book of the Year' in both France and the UK, and he won France's 'Scoop Of The Year' award for his investigation into the 'Qatargate' dossier, to which he also devoted two books, published in France and Belgium in 2015 and 2022. He has been investigating the sports betting industry for the past four years as part of a multinational team which won the Investigative Journalism For Europe's Impact Award in 2023 and is now regularly called on as an expert on illegal betting and sports manipulation by the Council of Europe, the Macolin Convention and the UNODC.
