Alison is an experienced broadcast journalist, who can be seen globally reporting, writing and producing on several sports and news networks. Her work with ESPN, Sky Sports and Al Jazeera has taken her all over the world: anchoring, making documentaries, interviewing managers and players, and reporting pitchside at Premier League, FA cup and Champions League games.
She is an experienced Live host, and has fronted several shows including "Player of the year", "Pre-season Live", many football analysis shows, her own weekly chatshow with 4 guests, Live rolling news, and even hosted a live Presidential election. Currently she is presenting a 2010 World cup chat show for ESPN throughout the tournament with guests including Paul Mariner, Frank Leboeff, Andy Cole, Freddie Ljungberg and John Barnes.
With a first class book of contacts, Alison has broken some big exclusives in a range of sports, but has a special affection for English, Spanish, and Italian football, having covered 3 FA cup finals, the Champions League for 4 seasons, commentated on Primera Liga games, and edited Seria A sports wraps.
Working at close quarters within two of the worlds biggest football clubs Chelsea and Real Madrid, Alison has a developed a good relationship with many players and managers, delivering daily training ground reports. She has worked around the English National Camp, been involved in two world Cups and the 2010 qualification campaign.
Alison's most challenging assignment to date was relocating to Spain and launching a 24-hour sports channel for Real Madrid. She managed a team of presenters and producers and developed new channel content whilst presenting up to 3 shows a day and having to learn a new language.
Alison has always been passionate about news and began working as a gallery producer at CNBC, eventually running their global news desk. This behind the camera experience proved invaluable when Alison took an anchor role on Sky Sports News. Similarly her production experience enabled her to take on a one man role at Al Jazeera writing, video editing and presenting sports bulletins.
Whether it's the glitz and glamour of the red carpet at Cannes Film Festival or the dusty pitches of Ghana where she wrote and presented a moving documentary with Jose Mourinho tracing Michael Essien's football roots, you'll get an original, and thoroughly researched take on events. From ad libbing, to reading autocue, Alison has a natural ability in front of the camera and injects the same enthusiasm and passion whether she is presenting a World Cup Final or a grass roots match.