James Sharman (born April 13, 1974) is an English writer and sportscaster at Homestand Sports focusing on

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

. He is also co-founder and host at Footy Prime the Podcast. James also frequently appears on Rogers Sportsnet and Sportsnet theFan 590. In 2019, he launched Sharman's Proper Pies with his wife, Toni.

Biography

Born in

Sevenoaks Sevenoaks is a town in Kent with a population of 29,506, situated south-east of London, England. Also classified as a civil parishes in England, civil parish, Sevenoaks is served by a commuter South Eastern Main Line, main line railway into Lo ...

, England, he started working for The Score in 1997. He was the host of ''The Footy Show'' on

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and he was a co-host on ''The Hardcore Footy Show'' when this show was broadcast on Hardcore Sports Radio,

Sirius XM Radio Sirius XM Holdings Inc. is an American broadcasting corporation headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, that provides satellite radio and online radio services operating in the United States. The company was formed by the 2008 merger ...

channel 98, alongside fellow Englishman Kristian Jack and sportscaster Brendan Dunlop. With the 2006 introduction of

Toronto FC Toronto Football Club is a Canadian professional Association football, soccer club based in Toronto. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Eastern Conference (MLS), Eastern Conference. The team plays its home matc ...

into

Major League Soccer Major League Soccer (MLS) is a professional Association football, soccer league in North America and the highest level of the United States soccer league system. It comprises 30 teams, with 27 in the United States and 3 in Canada, and is sanc ...

, Sharman has also done

play-by-play In Broadcasting of sports events, sports broadcasting, a sports commentator (also known as a sports announcer or sportscaster) provides a real time (media), real-time live commentary of a game or event, traditionally delivered in the present t ...

for some games. As of 2016, Sharman has served as colour analyst on the radio broadcast of matches on Sportsnet 590 The Fan. After the Score was purchased by Sportsnet in 2012 and re-branded as Sportsnet 360, Sharman became one of the regular co-hosts of '' Soccer Central''. He often appears on Sportsnet's Premier League coverage in Canada alongside broadcasters such as Danny Dichio and Craig Forrest. During an interview with ''TheScore.com'', Sharman stated that his interests include soccer, rugby, travelling, and cooking. His favourite soccer club is

Liverpool Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the River Mersey, Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population ...

. Sharman joined

OneSoccer OneSoccer is a Canadian Association football, soccer-oriented List of sports television channels, sports channel and subscription streaming service. The service was first established in 2019 as part of a 10-year agreement between Canadian Soccer ...

in 2020 as the host of "OneNation", a magazine show covering soccer from around the world; he is often joined by Forrest, Dichio, Terry Dunfield, and other Canadian internationals as analysts.

References

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