He worked as a sports photographer for UK national newspapers from 1986 to 2005 and covered his first Olympic Games in Los Angeles, USA, at the age of 21. He has photographed eight FIFA football World Cup Finals and in 2006 won the Barclays Premier League Football Photographer of the Year Award. In 2009 and 2010 Eddie won the Sports Journalists Association (SJA) Sports News Picture of the Year award and was named UK Picture Editors Sports Photographer of the Year in 2010. He won the SJA Sports Picture Portfolio award in 2012 and became a Canon Explorer in May 2013.