Guillem Balague

Returning to the Festival is Guillem Balague who is the author of Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi, Barça, Pep Guardiola and A Season on the Brink. A key fixture of Sky Sports’ coverage of Spanish football since 1997, he appears regularly on live match coverage and presents the weekly round-up show Revista de la liga. He is also the UK Correspondent for AS, the Spanish sports newspaper, writes weekly for Yahoo and has a monthly Special Show on Talksport. He is the Director of Football of the English football club Biggleswade United.. At the beginning, and weekly, throughout the 2016-17 season, Guillem Balague was given unprecedented access to the training ground of Tottenham Hotspur, shadowing Mauricio Pochettino and his close circle, to chronicle the words, hopes, aspirations and technical brilliance of this most charismatic of coaches. The result, which includes illuminating observations from assistants and players, is his latest biography, “Brave New World – Inside Pochettino’s Spurs.” It is a fascinating insight into the world of Pochettino and the pressures and challenges of being a leading coach in today’s Premier League. Guillem will discuss this, and his other works, peppered, as ever, with his usual witty and revealing anecdotes about the “beautiful game” as played at the highest level.