Ben Dirs is a freelance writer and journalist. He was a sports journalist for the
BBC news website from 2001 to 2017. Whilst at the BBC he covered a wide range of major sporting events. He provided live
blogging
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on sports including boxing, golf and rugby
for people who cannot watch live television coverage, often for people who live abroad.
Dirs is the author o
seven books
* ''We Could be Heroes: One Van, Two Blokes and Twelve World Championships'' with
Tom Fordyce published 3 July 2009, charting the madcap escapades that resulted from trying to become the world champion in something.
* ''Karma Chameleons: No-one said the search for happiness would be dignified'' was published in 2010.
* ''Everywhere We Went: Top Tales from Cricket's Barmy Army'' about the
Barmy Army was published in 2012.
* ''The Hate Game:
Benn, Eubank and Boxing's Bitterest Rivalry'', documenting the boxing matches between
Nigel Benn
Nigel Gregory Benn (born 22 January 1964), is a former British professional boxer who competed from 1987 to 1996. A two-weight world champion, he held the WBO middleweight title in 1990 and reigned as the WBC super-middleweight champion f ...
and
Chris Eubank
Christopher Livingstone Eubank (also Christopher Livingstone Eubank Sr. born 8 August 1966) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 1998. He held the World Boxing Organization (WBO) middleweight and super-middlewei ...
was published in 2013.
* ''Box to Box: From Premier League to British Boxing Champion'', the autobiography of
Curtis Woodhouse
Curtis Woodhouse (born 17 April 1980) is an English former professional footballer turned professional boxer and football manager, most recently in charge of Marske United. Woodhouse played football as a central midfielder, and competed as ...
was published in 2016.
* ''401: The Extraordinary Story of the Man who Ran 401 Marathons in 401 Days and Changed his Life Forever'' (2018)
* ''Death Row – The Final Minutes'' (2018)
* “Too Many Reasons to Live” the Rob Burrow Story 2021.
References
External links
Ben Dirs' BBC profileRugby World Cup BlogArticles by Ben Dirsat
Journalisted
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BBC people
British sportswriters
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
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