Julie Welch

Julie Welch is a British sports journalist, author and screenwriter who in 1973 became Fleet Street's first female football reporter. Welch has also edited the Long Distance Walkers Association magazine, and has participated in the annual "Hundred" – walking 100 miles non-stop over 48 hours. She later wrote a book about her experience.

She made her screenwriting debut in the 1970s, but it was her 1983 made-for-television film Those Glory Glory Days that established her in this field. She was asked to write a screenplay about her childhood love of football by the producer David Puttnam. She wrote her book, Long Distance Information in six months after being made redundant from The Sunday Telegraph when the department in which she was working closed. Other works include 26:2, published in 2000, the novel Dangerous Dancing (1993), and The Ghost of White Hart Lane, co-authored with Rob White (2011).

Filmography

Angels (1975) Couples (1975–1976) Crown Court (1978) Horse in the House (1979) Those Glory Glory Days (1983) Playing for Real (1988) Ellington (1996)