# Ian Stafford

ian stafford is an English sports journalist, author and broadcaster, whose work appears in the United Kingdom, in the United States and Australia. He is also an after dinner speaker, interviewer of stars and compere, acts as a consultant for a number of media outlets and owned and edited the UK's first general sports magazine on the internet, sportsvibe before selling it. == Career == Stafford is an author of participatory books, including Playgrounds of the Gods (Mainstream, 1999), in which he played squash against Jansher Khan, boxed against Roy Jones Jr., was a substitute for the Springboks rugby team against Ireland, was 12th man for Australia in a one-day cricket international against New Zealand, ran in the Kenyan 3000 metres steeplechase national trials, and partnered rower Steve Redgrave at the Henley Royal Regatta.