| Henry Winter | |
| Birth Date: | 18 February 1963 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Alma Mater: | University of Edinburgh |
| Occupation: | Sports Journalist |
| Years Active: | 1986–present |
| Employer: | World Soccer |
| Awards: | Football Journalist, Specialist Correspondent of the Year, British Sports Journalism Awards |
Henry Winter (born 18 February 1963) is an English sports journalist. He currently writes for World Soccer, having previously been the Chief Football Writer for The Times and a Football Correspondent for The Daily Telegraph.[1]
Winter was educated at Westminster School, before graduating from the University of Edinburgh in 1986.
Winter spent a year producing a magazine on sport in London after graduation before joining The Independent at its launch in 1986, writing a sports and schools column.
He moved to The Daily Telegraph in 1994, and produced a daily webcast on the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, giving specific information on the England team.[2] He joined The Times in 2015 to become Chief Football Writer.[3]
Over the course of his career, Winter wrote FA Confidential with former FA chief executive David Davies,[4] and ghost-wrote the autobiographies of Liverpool F.C. players Kenny Dalglish, John Barnes and Steven Gerrard.[5] He wrote Fifty Years of Hurt: The Story of England Football in 2017.[6]
He also makes regular appearances as a pundit on Sky Sports' Sunday Supplement and BBC Radio 5 Live.
Winter revealed on 10 April 2024 that he would be leaving The Times after being made redundant.[7] On 11 June 2024 it was announced that Winter would become a columnist for World Soccer. [8]
Winter was named Specialist Correspondent of the Year at the British Sports Journalism Awards in 2004, 2009, 2010 and 2013, and Football Writer of the Year in 2016.[9] In 2010, he was named among the top 10 most influential sportswriters in Britain by the trade publication, Press Gazette.[10] [11]
Winter's older brother is academic Timothy Winter.[12] He is a trustee of the African social enterprise Alive & Kicking, which manufactures footballs in Kenya and Zambia.