Giles Smith

Giles Smith

Giles Smith (born 1962 in Colchester, Essex) is a British journalist and former musician. In 1998 he was named sports journalist of the year.

Smith was one of the two members of the band Orphans of Babylon who in 1983 produced the cassette Pinch Me - I Think I'm In Kent. This cassette featured 36 tracks including Helluva Break By Ray Reardon, You Lawn Tennis and Icarus Dicarus, I Smell A Nail.

Smith's career in journalism began when he joined "The Independent" in 1990 after a spell as one half of obscure 1980s band The Cleaners From Venus. Since then he has written chiefly for "The Times" and "The Guardian".

He has published two books, "Lost In Music", about his time on the very outer fringes of commercial pop success, and "Midnight In The Garden Of Evel Knievel", a collection of his sports columns.

He currently writes a motoring column in "The Guardian", and a twice weekly sport column in "The Times".He also writes on the Chelsea FC website and delivers insightfull comments, not to mention brilliant put downs of Liverpool FC

Bibliography

*"Lost In Music"
*"Midnight In The Garden Of Evel Knievel" (2000)

External links

* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/columnists/giles_smith/ Giles Smith Archive at The Times]


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