Author profile: Julian Shea

Julian Shea writes Barclays Premier League football match previews for Absolute Radio. Julian Shea first became involved in student newspaper and radio journalism at the University of Nottingham, and later took a Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism at City University.

Over the past 16 years Julian Shea has worked across radio, television and online for Independent Radio News, Sky, talkSPORT, Eurosport and the BBC Sport website, amongst others, and has reported live from venues such as Lord's, Wembley, Wimbledon and Donington Park.

In the name of research Julian Shea always tries to watch some of the local sport whenever he travels, Julian's broadcasting hero is Danny Baker, and his proudest journalistic achievement is having made a career out of something which he genuinely loves doing. He lives in Surrey with his family and Parsnip the rabbit.