Chris Dunlavy

Chris has been the Football League Paper’s chief writer for more than 15 years, providing features, insight and analysis, as well as an unmissable weekly column.

A regular contributor to the Non-League Paper, he has covered matches everywhere from the Eastern Counties League to the Etihad Stadium - and can call on a wealth of trusted contacts throughout the game.

He has also appeared as an EFL expert on Talksport, BBC Radio 5 Live, the EFL Highlights show and the BBC’s Late Kick Off.

News By Chris Dunlavy

Columnists
/ 6 years ago

Chris Dunlavy column: Hindsight’s such a wonderful thing!

It can be misleading but can also teach valuable lessons

By Chris Dunlavy
Columnists
/ 6 years ago

Chris Dunlavy: Government aiding Premier League restart helps no one

Football below the top-flight needs a fresh start and time to reset, not a messy and endless conclusion

By Chris Dunlavy
Columnists
/ 6 years ago

Chris Dunlavy column: Prepare for a Covid firesale

Those who stretched themselves far beyond their means, spent a suicidal percentage of turnover on wages and failed to implement any...

By Chris Dunlavy
Columnists
/ 7 years ago

Chris Dunlavy column: Why there should be more love for Gateshead

The Tyneside town, birthplace of Paul Gascoigne and Chris Waddle, is more famous for the car park featured in Get Carter...

By Chris Dunlavy
National League
/ 9 years ago

Chris Dunlavy: It’s about time a more robust owners test was put in place

NEWS that the EFL will review their widely-ridiculed owners and directors test must be music to the ears of National League...

By Chris Dunlavy
National League North & South
/ 9 years ago

Chris Dunlavy: Fast start in National League North is vital for York City

LEAMINGTON. Spennymoor Town. Blyth Spartans. A couple of years ago, fixtures against such sides would have represented a kindly FA Cup...

By Chris Dunlavy
Features
/ 9 years ago

Chris Dunlavy: Football’s fat cats have now created a monster

LYON, France. Sometime on Monday afternoon. The phone trills. It’s Dick Law, Arsenal’s chief transfer negotiator.

By Chris Dunlavy
Features
/ 9 years ago

Chris Dunlavy: Legends just don’t cut it! Non-League bosses deserve much more

NOBODY doubts JK Rowling’s ability to pen a spellbinding children’s story. But could the Harry Potter author knock up a scientific...

By Chris Dunlavy
Features
/ 9 years ago

Chris Dunlavy: Huddersfield Town show how to overcome the big budgets

BIG Budget, big players, big prizes. Isn’t that how football works in the era of the oligarch and the Emirati?

By Chris Dunlavy