Oliver Holt

Oliver T Holt
Oliver T Holt
Born	Oliver Charles T Holt; 22 May 1966; Manchester, Lancashire, England
Occupation	Author, Journalist
Nationality	British
Subject	Sports
Children	3
Relatives	Thomas Holt (father); Eileen Derbyshire (mother)

Oliver Charles T Holt (born 22 May 1966) is an English sports journalist who writes for the newspaper The Mail on Sunday in the United Kingdom. He is the son of Thomas Holt and Coronation Street actress Eileen Derbyshire and is an avid Stockport County supporter.

He attended the King's School, Macclesfield from 1977–1984. He then read history at Christ Church, Oxford, before studying newspaper journalism at the Cardiff School of Journalism. He started his journalistic career at the Liverpool Echo, and after three years moved to The Times as Motor Racing Correspondent in 1993. He graduated to Chief Football Writer in 1996 in time to cover England's hosting of the Euro Championships that summer, and then to Chief Sports Correspondent in 2000.[1] Highlights of his time at The Times was covering the 1998 FIFA World Cup and the 2000 Summer Olympics.

He joined the Daily Mirror in 2002 as the Chief Sports Writer, where he has covered many notable sports events. He left the paper in February 2015, to replace Patrick Collins at The Mail on Sunday.[2]

Holt is a regular guest on the Sunday Supplement.

Awards

2004 the What the Papers Say Best Sports Writer award[3]
2005 Sports Writer of the Year[4]
2006 Sports Journalist of the Year[4]

Bibliography

Behind the Scenes with Benetton Formula 1 (1995) with Chris Bennett
The Bridge: Behind the Scenes at Chelsea (1998) with Jon Nicholson
If You're Second You Are Nothing: Ferguson and Shankly (2006)

As Ghost Writer:

Stan: Tackling My Demons by Stan Collymore (2004)
Left Field by Graeme Le Saux (2007)
Made in Sheffield - My Story by Neil Warnock (2007)

gollark: The cooling system isn't happy. But it does work.

gollark: I can actually run heavily modded Minecraft at 50FPS on my laptop's integrated GPU.

gollark: > constantly complaining about AMD GPUs despite them offering better value in various market segments

gollark: As vaguely heretical as it is, I like JS for quickly putting stuff together.

gollark: Oh, right.

References

"News International". Times-olympics.co.uk. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
"Mirror's Oliver Holt to replace Patrick Collins as chief sports writer at the Mail on Sunday". press gazette.co.uk. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
Owen Gibson Guardian scoops photography awards, The Guardian, 18 December 2004. Retrieved 2011-12-06.
British Press Awards: Past winners Archived 22 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Press Gazette, 29 November 2007. Retrieved 2011-12-06.

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[1] "News International". Times-olympics.co.uk. Retrieved 27 January 2012.

[press_gazette-2] "Mirror's Oliver Holt to replace Patrick Collins as chief sports writer at the Mail on Sunday". press gazette.co.uk. Retrieved 8 March 2015.

[3] Owen Gibson Guardian scoops photography awards, The Guardian, 18 December 2004. Retrieved 2011-12-06.

[pressgazette.co.uk-4] British Press Awards: Past winners Archived 22 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Press Gazette, 29 November 2007. Retrieved 2011-12-06.