David Foot (journalist)


David Foot is an English journalist and historian. He has written extensively on cricket and the West Country.
Foot was born in the Somerset village of East Coker and has spent most of his life in Somerset and Gloucestershire. He began his journalistic career with the Western Gazette in Yeovil, moving on to the Bristol Evening World, but since 1962 he has worked largely as a freelance.
Foot's book Beyond Bat & Ball won the Cricket Society’s Book of the Year award in 1993. Reviewing it in Wisden, Geoffrey Moorhouse agreed with the opinion of Dennis Silk in the book's foreword that as a writer Foot "is as good as Robertson-Glasgow at his best". Silk also said: "If the cricket lover is not quite clear about why he loves the game, he will become much clearer after reading this book."
The sport journalist Frank Keating called Foot's biographies of Harold Gimblett and Wally Hammond "imperishable classics in cricket's canon".
Foot lives in Bristol with his wife Anne.

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