Lee Wellings

A former sports and programme editor at Sky News, ITN and the BBC, Lee spent many years as a global sports news correspondent and film maker, always looking for the human story behind the action.

Football Fables is the first collection of Lee’s fables published in print.

His first book The Dilly Dong Bell (A Wake-Up Call for Sport) was published in 2022, demonstrating how sport lost its way through greed and mismanagement.

Lee tackled big issues in sport in his Substack column Why Sport Matters before his writing style - warm, engaging, colourful and full of humour - took him into fiction, and fables, writing under the alter ego ‘The Fable Guy’.

His Football Fables are subversive and tackle what’s wrong in football, but ultimately Lee seeks the light and will leave you uplifted. There are more being written.