Norman Giller

Norman Giller (born 18 April 1940, Stepney, East End, London) is an English author, a sports historian and television scriptwriter, who in October 2015 had his 100th book published.

He was chief football reporter with the Daily Express in London (1966–74, succeeding Clive Toye), and has been a freelance writer since leaving Fleet Street in 1974.

His 93rd book, Sir Henry Cooper A Hero for All Time, was published in June 2012, and before that he self-published Tottenham, The Glory-Glory Game, which he wrote with members of the Spurs Writers' Club, which he formed in 2011.

It is called Bobby Moore The Master, and tells the story of the former England football captain's life on and off the pitch.No 95 was Keys to Paradise, an adult novel in harness with first-time American novelist, Jeni Robbins.

[1] Giller was the argument-settling Judge of The Sun for ten years, and he and his sports statistician son Michael set the 2,000 questions for the DVD version of Football Trivial Pursuit.

He had six books published in 2010, written in collaboration with his sports statistician son, Michael Giller, and sports agent Terry Baker: Jimmy Greaves At Seventy[1] and The Golden Double,[1] the story of Tottenham's historic League and FA Cup triumph in 1960–61, Greavsie's Greatest (The 50 greatest post-war British strikers, selected by Jimmy Greaves), World Cup 2010,[1] (a day to day diary of the tournament), Chopper's Chelsea, in collaboration with former Stamford Bridge captain Ron Harris, and Hammers-80, the story of West Ham United's FA Cup success of 1979–80, introduced by Sir Trevor Brooking.

[1] During Lockdown, Giller completed a trilogy of crime novels featuring fictional Fleet Street journalist turned private investigator, JC Campbell, bringing his total of books published to 115.

Giller has worked in PR and for ten years represented former boxing world champions Frank Bruno, John H Stracey, Jim Watt, Maurice Hope (all managed by his friend Terry Lawless), and (for his European fights) Muhammad Ali.