Steve Menary

Steve Menary is a British journalist specialised in sports.

Steve Menary is a regular contributor to Josimar, World Soccer magazine, When Saturday Comes and PlaytheGame.org, freelanced for the BBC World Service for a decade, has lectured on sport at three Universities and written six books on sport. Outcasts, his book on football in unrecognised nations, was shortlisted for the NSC Football Book of the Year award. He devised and ran a three-year European Union Erasmus+ project on match-fixing and has been researching multi-club ownership since 2021. He was part of the team that won the Investigative Journalism For Europe's Impact Award in 2023 for their investigation into data, betting and match-fixing.

Basic information

Name

Steve Menary

Title

Journalist

Expertise

Sports, integrity, fixing, multi club ownership, illegal betting, unrecognised countries

Country

United Kingdom

City

Ringwood

Links

Supported projects

Football’s Carbon Footprint: Burning Up the Planet

Climate
Environment
Sport

LONDON – This is a cross-border investigation by five journalists into how the world’s most popular sport is creating a huge carbon footprint and relying on the fossil fuel industry in a never-ending search for more money and more fans.

Play Local. Fix Global.

Corruption
Sport

OSLO - Every weekend, across, Europe, hundreds of thousands of footballers play local football for fun.

Football Club Cyber Slavery

Exploitation
Organised crime

EUROPE - Elite European football has been overrun with advertisements for Asian betting brands in recent years, despite many of these companies being connected to major organised crime figures.