Julie Welch is a British sports journalist, author and screenwriter who in 1973 became Fleet Street's first female football reporter.
Some of her most notable works include the 1983 made-for-television film Those Glory Glory Days, which was inspired by her childhood love of football, and the books The Fleet Street Girls, the story of her experiences as a football reporter, Too Marvellous For Words, which describes her education at an all-girl boarding school, Felixstowe College, in the 1960s, and the best-selling The Biography of Tottenham Hotspur.
[1] She told a 1999 interview with the Independent on Sunday's Lucy Pollard that she had faced hostility because of her sex, and that after the appearance of her first byline people had wondered if Julie was a unisex name.
[1] Welch has also edited the Long Distance Walkers Association magazine, and has participated in the annual "Hundred" – walking 100 miles non-stop over 48 hours.
She wrote her book, Long Distance Information in six months after being made redundant from The Sunday Telegraph when the department in which she was working closed.