Peter Chapman



Profile:
Full name: Peter Chapman

Area of interest: Globalisation; Sport and Football

Journals/Organisation: Financial Times

Email: [mailto:peter.chapman@ft.com peter.chapman@ft.com]

Personal website:

Website: FT.Com / Peter Chapman

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Representation: Felicity Bryan

Networks: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/peter-chapman/a/834/608



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Career: Apparently played in goal for Leyton Orient juniors in the 1960s. Following two shocking performances against Tottenham Hotspur it seems he was classified unfit for a professional career.

Correspondent for the BBC and also The Guardian in Central America and Mexico in the 1980s. Researcher and producer for ITV at the Mexico, 1986 and Italy, 1990 World Cups as well as at the Seoul Olympics, 1988

Financial Times: formerly wrote the View from the Back football column and has recently (2008) compiled World Diary

Current position/role: Commentator


 * also writes/has written for: The Guardian

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Other activities: Author

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Books & Debate:

 * The goalkeeper's history of Britain OCLC 59443129, 1999

Latest work: Jungle Capitalists: a story of globalisation, greed and revolution OCLC 174131130, 2007

(published in US as: Bananas: how the United Fruit Company shaped the world), 2008

Forthcoming work: One Firm: A History of Lehman Brothers (Portfolio) - publication expected in Spring 2010

Speaking/Appearances:
 * Moore School of Business, University of South Carolinaa, April 2008

Current debate:
 * Rotten fruit - Peter Chapman, Financial Times, 15th May 2007
 * Chiquita has set a high bar for the banana industry - Dr Gary Taylor - Environment Group LLC, Financial Times, 15th May 2007



Financial Times: 'View from the Back'
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Remit/Info: Football

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Role: Sports editor FT.Com / columnist

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Email: [mailto:peter.chapman@ft.com peter.chapman@ft.com]

Personal website:

Website: FT.Com / Peter Chapman

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Day published: Friday

Regularity: Weekly

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Articles: 2006
no recent articles
 * Keep you hair on - I’m just looking at the front page of Thursday’s Guardian sport section and it makes a sight for appreciative eyes - 9th March 2006
 * Osgood and Wigg - Peter Osgood was a brilliant player who has died prematurely, the sadness all the more because - as with George Best - you’re left with the feeling that there was something unfulfilled about his career - 2nd March 2006



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