Alex Culvin is Senior Lecturer in Sports Business at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Alex works in player and union relations at FIFPro, the global union of professional footballers, and is the chair of the Football Collective, a global network of football scholars.

Ali Bowes is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Sport at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Ali serves on the editorial boards of both Sociology of Sport Journal and Managing Sport and Leisure, and is on the board of the Football Collective.