Brassell specialises in European football, and works as a pundit across many forms of media, such as Talksport, the BBC, BT Sport and ESPN,[1] as well as newspapers such as The Guardian,[2] The Independent, The Daily Mirror and the Daily Star.
[6] He has contributed to the website for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur,[7] and Arsenal fan TV.
[9] On talkSPORT, he regularly features alongside Danny Kelly on Trans Europe Express, a show on every Sunday night from 9.00 pm which looks back at the weekend's European football action.
[11] As well as appearing on Football Weekly podcast,[12] after the post-James Richardson split, he has also appeared on Richardson's subsequent venture The Totally Football Show.
[14] When asked by FourFourTwo, Brassell chose as his favourite football book Phil Ball's Morbo, a book about rivalry and the historical and societal contexts of Spanish football.