Julie Welch | |
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Born | 5 September 1948 Woodford, Essex, England |
Education | University of Bristol |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, author, screenwriter |
Spouse | Ronald Atkin |
Julie Welch is a British sports journalist, author and screenwriter who in 1973 became Fleet Street's first female football reporter.[1] As a screenwriter she writes both screenplays and scripts for television, while as an author she has written both fiction and non-fiction. Some of her most notable works include the 1983 made-for-television film Those Glory Glory Days, which was inspired by her childhood love of football, and the books The Fleet Street Girls, the story of her experiences as a football reporter, Too Marvellous For Words, which describes her education at an all-girl boarding school, Felixstowe College, in the 1960s, and the best-selling The Biography of Tottenham Hotspur.