Grant Bage has written for football fanzines, newspapers and magazines, and published books, research reports and academic articles. For as long as he can remember, and hopefully until the day he dies, he has enjoyed reading and writing stories, playing and following football, and learning anything and everything about history.  Grant specialises in telling historical stories, is an Honorary Fellow of The Historical Association, and earned his PhD by researching how stories help people learn history.

His latest book, The Unseen Sir Alf: A Different Kind Of Hero, has taken six  years to research and write. This is his first biography, but as a lifelong England and Ipswich Town football fan, as an experienced leader and manager, and as a professional historian, Grant brings rich expertise to bear on a question that has fascinated English football during six decades of hurt. Ever since 1966, when England’s second-ever manager won England’s first and only World Cup, people have been asking: who really was Alf Ramsey, and how did he do it? Grant uses a unique blend of academic knowledge, personal experience and liberal patriotism to answer those questions, in ways that speak to the heart of modern England.