Niall Couper is the CEO of Fair Game, an organisation of men’s professional football clubs campaigning to change the governance of football in England and Wales. Fair Game is supported by world-renowned experts and is developing long-term realistic solutions to the problems our national game faces.
Niall is also a member of the Executive Board of the Union of European Clubs.
He has twice served as a directly-elected member of the Dons Trust of AFC Wimbledon.
He spent 10 years as head of Media, PR and Supporter Communications for Amnesty International UK and is directly responsible for creating the phrase “sportswashing”.
A former sports journalist for the Independent, he has written three books, The Spirit of Wimbledon published in 2003, This Is Our Time, published in 2012, and Womble Till I Die, published in 2023. This Is Our Time was longlisted for the Sports Writers’ Association’s Sports Book of the Year.