David Winner

Who is David Winner?

David Winner is an English author and journalist. He lives in Kilburn, London.

His best-known books are Those Feet: An Intimate History of English Football, and Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football.

Brilliant Orange was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2000. The book explains why the football players of the Netherlands play beautifully but lose their most important matches. Winner connects football to other elements of Dutch life and culture, such as their flat flooding-prone land, unusual taste in art, and their experiences in World War 2.

Around the World in 90 Minutes was based on his journey to 13 countries during the four weeks of the 2006 World Cup.

His quirky travel book Al Dente: Madness, Beauty & the Food of Rome was described by Pen Vogler in The Observer, [Sunday 11 March 2012] as being "like a fusion of Coleridge's Table Talk and Marinetti's The Futurist Cookbook, peopled with eccentric film-makers, anorexic saints and wafer-making nuns".

His most recent work is a biography of footballer Dennis Bergkamp, co-written with Jaap Visser, and based on interviews with Bergkamp.