Chris Slegg

Chris Slegg combines frontline sports reporting for the BBC with specialist coverage of women’s football and the supporter experience around major matches.

Women’s Football Yearbook and FA Cup history

Slegg has built a long-running strand of work around documenting and explaining the women’s game in detail. He founded The Women’s Football Yearbook, creating an annual reference that records squads, results and statistics across women’s competitions.

He co-authored A History of the Women’s FA Cup Final, tracing the development of the competition and the teams and players who have shaped it.

Beyond print, he commentates on the UEFA Women’s Champions League and domestic women’s competitions, adding live context and historical perspective from the commentary box. Podcast appearances focusing on women’s football, including discussions of the growth of the FA WSL and grassroots funding, reinforce that his reporting is grounded in long-term study of the structures and stories behind the women’s game.

BBC London sport and major venues

At the BBC, Slegg works as a BBC London TV senior reporter and live television and radio reporter for BBC News, covering sport and wider London stories from the field.

His pieces often use major venues as entry points into broader issues, such as his report from Wembley Stadium on how old plastic pitches are being recycled into benches, combining stadium infrastructure with sustainability and community use of facilities. He contributes to BBC coverage that links London institutions and health innovation, including co-authoring reporting on a pilot prostate cancer treatment at Guy’s Hospital, where clinical detail is paired with patient experience and service change.

This strand of work shows him moving between sport, city infrastructure and public services while staying within a clear, reportorial frame for BBC London.

Crystal Palace supporters on the road to Leipzig

Slegg’s feature on Crystal Palace supporters travelling to Leipzig for a Conference League final illustrates his recurring interest in fan journeys and matchday experience. In that piece he follows different groups of fans - from a pilot flying his son in a small aircraft to friends driving a campervan from Croydon via Dover, Dunkirk and Düsseldorf - detailing routes, costs and timings with practical precision. He also tracks families and groups stitching together budget itineraries of flights, buses and trains across Germany and central Europe, using their stories to show how travel planning shapes the build-up to a major fixture.

The focus stays on the supporters’ decisions, logistics and anticipation rather than on tactics or club politics, making the article an example of how he treats fans’ movements and arrangements as a core part of the sporting narrative.

Broadcast, podcast and author work beyond match reports

Alongside his BBC reporting, Slegg maintains a visible broadcast and author presence that extends his sports beat beyond individual games. He works as a women’s football commentator for broadcasters covering the UEFA Women’s Champions League and domestic leagues such as the WSL and FA Women’s Championship, bringing his reference-level knowledge into live coverage.

His books, including titles on Tottenham’s 1994–95 season and a history of the England shirt, show an interest in club culture and national-team identity that feeds back into his journalism when he covers heritage themes and anniversaries.

Appearances on football podcasts, where he discusses the evolution of the WSL and the women’s game’s rapid growth, indicate that he is sought out as a subject-matter specialist rather than a general sports voice. Taken together, his commentary, authorship and archival work mark him out as a reporter whose beat is defined by women’s football, football history and the lived experience of supporters as much as by the match itself.