After starting his career at the Western Gazette in Somerset, he joined Glasgow’s Evening Times as a news reporter in 1995 and two years later became the paper’s chief reporter at the age of twenty-five. The same year he won the prestigious UK Press Gazette Scoop of the Year award and was nominated as Scotland’s young journalist of the year. He later moved on to the newsdesk before joining the Press Association, Britain’s leading news gathering organisation, where he was Scottish editor for six years. His first book, charting 50 years of Rangers in Europe, was published in 2006. His second, a history of Ibrox Stadium, was released in autumn 2008 and the third, focusing on the Old Firm rivalry, came out in 2010. He is currently editor of Camping magazine