Sam Wallace is a British sports journalist, the Chief Football Writer at the Daily and Sunday Telegraph since 2015.
[2] From Stevenage, Hertfordshire[3] Wallace graduated from Robinson College, Cambridge with a degree in English literature.
[4] The son of an English teacher at The Barclay School, Stevenage, Wallace was a schoolboy peer of professional golfer Ian Poulter.
[22] A regular pundit on Sky Sports programme Sunday Supplement, in May 2020 a private conversation by the pundits over remote record during the COVID-19 pandemic was accidentally broadcast and included a comment by Wallace about why the singer Morrissey had been “basically cancelled”, for which presenter Geoff Shreeves had to apologise.
[26] On 2 March 2021 it was announced that at the Society of Editors’ “The Press Awards” that Wallace was nominated twice, once for The Hugh McIlvanney Award for Sports Journalist of the year, and also for the Sports News Story of the year for his scoop in the Telegraph about ‘Project Big Picture’, designed by some to help the Premier League–Football League gulf.