Collection: Matthew Hall

Matthew Hall is an author and journalist who also produced and wrote the award-winning film adaptation of his book, The Away Game.

He covered four FIFA World Cups while writing about football for The Guardian, the Observer, the New York Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Sun-Herald, The Australian, the Daily Telegraph, the South China Morning Post, Rolling Stone, When Saturday Comes, FourFourTwo, Inside Sport, Playboy, ESPN, The World Game, and the Saturday Paper, among others.

Recently, he has campaigned against human rights violations in sports and human trafficking through sports, principally through his work via The Guardian USA. 

Born in Perth, Western Australia, he lives in New York City where he is a part-time school teacher and on the coaching staff at New York City FC. 

His other books are The Away Game and Robbie Slater: The Hard Way.