An Evening with Brian Doogan

He has a whole host of stories about sporting legends, from Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson to Tiger Woods, Kobe Bryant, Andy Murray, Martin O'Neill and Tom Brady. Now award-winning journalist, author and communications expert Brian Doogan will be sharing them – and reflecting on a career which has taken him around the world - when he appears as guest speaker at a Birmingham Press Club event being held at Birmingham City University (BCU) on Wednesday, May 27.

Tickets for the event, (6pm for 6.30 start), which will take place at BCU’s STEAMhouse technology centre on Belmont Row (B4 7RQ) are priced at £10 each. Students go free.

Tickets are available by logging on to Eventbrite

Llewela Bailey, Press Club chairman, said: “Brian has a wealth of experience behind him and I know we will be in for a treat as he delves into his treasure-trove of fascinating stories about some of the world’s top sportsmen.”

Brian, who was the Midlands football reporter and boxing correspondent for the Daily Express before he joined the Sunday Times, also covered golf in America for an entire year, including the four majors, as well as five Super Bowls, the Indianapolis 500 and the NBA play-offs, and for more than 20 years he reported on fights and fighters across Europe and the U.S. for boxing’s Bible, The Ring magazine.

His insightful knowledge of boxing led to him ghosting No Ordinary Joe, the Sunday Times bestselling autobiography of Joe Calzaghe, the brilliant Welsh boxer who is widely considered to be Britain’s best over the past 50 years. He also survived a particularl acrimonious altercation with Tyson while alone in a gym in Las Vegas - and still got the interview.

He is the author of The SuperFight: Marvelous Marvin Hagler-Sugar Ray Leonard - described by the weekly periodical Boxing News as “one of the best boxing books of recent years” - and he collaborated with Duncan Ferguson on the Everton and Scottish legend’s autobiography Big Dunc, another Sunday Times bestseller.

Now running his own communications and publishing company and still working in football, Brian, who hails from Northern Ireland, was appointed Head of Media and Communications in 2009 at Aston Villa (where he worked closely with Randy Lerner, Martin O’Neill, Gerard Houllier, Alex McLeish and Paul Lambert) before he took on the same role at Everton FC. In 2021 he was appointed Head of Technical at Hibernian FC in Edinburgh.

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