Phil McNulty is an Irish Liverpool-born Evertonian sports journalist.
He has been BBC Sport’s chief football writer since July 2000.
McNulty attended Roman Catholic secondary school De La Salle Grammar in Liverpool.
[1] He covered the FIFA World Cups for the BBC in Japan and South Korea (2002), Germany (2006) and South Africa (2010).
[3] In 2012, McNulty was ranked by a (UK) Press Gazette poll among Britain’s top 50 sports journalists; Andy Stokes commenting that "McNulty is the Proust of the back pages".