Dom Smith

About

Football Reporter for The Standard, covering London football and the England men's and women's national teams.Founded the blog EnglandFootball.org at age 11 — now an accredited media outlet with readers in more than 195 nations.Previously a freelance football writer, I have written for The Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Independent, The Daily Mirror, The Sun, Daily Star, Sunday Express, Sunday Mirror, Sunday People, The New Statesman, FourFourTwo, SPORTbible, LADbible, 90min, COPA90, The Set Pieces, The FA, Yahoo News, Planet Football, BreakingTheLines, TheFootballPink, the England official annual, the Manchester United, West Ham United and Leicester City matchday programmes, and many other outlets. I've provided live football analysis on BBC News, talkSPORT, LBC News, TalkTV, numerous BBC Radio stations, am a regular contributor to the Three Lions Podcast and The Women's Football Podcast, and co-founded the podcast ENGLAND Unmasked. Have a strong media and communication outreach, with an impressive list of contacts.Winner of the 2023 FWA Hugh McIlvanney Student Football Writer of the Year Award, having previously been shortlisted in the final 10 of 700 entrants for the 2022 edition.Graduated with First Class honours in a BA in Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE) at the University of York in 2022.