Phil Ball (writer)
Phil Ball (born 1957) is a British sports journalist, football commentator, and author based in Spain. He is the author of many books on Spanish football, including Morbo: The Story of Spanish Football (2001), and the first English-language history of Real Madrid, White Storm (2002). From 2001 to 2014, he wrote a regular column on Spanish football culture for ESPN.
He has lived in Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, for over twenty years.