[4] As a journalist he spent nearly 30 years as a football correspondent for The Sunday Times, and continued to contribute pieces after leaving the post.
He has also contributed to World Soccer magazine for over 50 years in print and online, and has authored a weekly column for the website covering a range of issues.
During the 1960s, Glanville worked as a writer for the satirical BBC TV programme That Was The Week That Was and wrote the screenplay for Goal!, the BAFTA award-winning official film of the 1966 World Cup, to which he also contributed the commentary.
From the mid-1960s to the 1980s, Glanville organised and ran his own successful (largely) amateur football team, Chelsea Casuals, which, depending on the quality of the opposition, comprised a motley collection of actors, artists, radio, TV and newspaper journalists, university graduates and undergraduates (mainly drawn from the LSE), friends (occasionally professional soccer players and from other sports including cricket).
[11] However, he was effusive in his praise of Paul Gascoigne in the latter, saying he had displayed "a flair, a superlative technique, a tactical sophistication, seldom matched by an England player since the war".