About us
chickendinner.co.uk is a free website that produces detailed background research on the big events of the day so that readers betting on them can make smarter decisions about how to deploy their money, and people discussing them can do so more knowledgeably.
chickendinner also publishes sports sites thespoiler.co.uk (the ‘celebrification’ of the Premier League), gridcrasher.com (motor racing) and politeapplause.com (middle class ball sports like cricket and tennis).
chickendinner is edited by Michael Lintorn
Michael was too smart for university, so he decided to become a journalist instead. After traveling from Ebbsfleet to Grays to Tonbridge to cover the Non-League Paper’s glamour ties, he decided the excitement was too much, and signed up for chickendinner.
chickendinner is designed by Nilesh Mistry
Nilesh Mistry is a web designer with over 5 years of experience working with clients that include AstraZeneca, Nike, Pepsi, Vauxhall, Reebok, ITV and French Connection. Before joining Grand Parade, Nilesh spent more than a couple of years as designer at a digital agency based in Oxfordshire designing and developing websites, banner ads and Flash applications.
chickendinner was founded in 2007 by its Editorial Director, Ed Needham and Managing Director, Andy Clerkson.
Ed Needham has worked in magazines since the mid-nineties, most recently in New York, where he was Editor-in-Chief of Maxim (2004-2006), the biggest men’s magazine in the US, with a circulation of 2.5 million. Prior to that he was Managing Editor of Rolling Stone (2002-2004), and before that he was the launch editor of the US version of FHM magazine (1999-2002). Before moving to the US in 1999, Ed was the editor of FHM in the UK, and achieved an unprecedented average monthly circulation of 750,000, which made it the most popular monthly magazine in Europe at the time. Ed won the magazine industry’s prestigious PPA Magazine Editor of the Year in 1998
Andy Clerkson is a 15-year veteran of Dennis Publishing in the UK and USA. He returned to the UK in 2007 after seven years in New York, most recently as editorial director of Dennis US which publishes Maxim, Blender and Stuff. Andy was General Manager (an American term for publisher) of Maxim magazine from 2002-2004 during which time the magazine established itself as the world’s largest men’s magazine and achieved unprecedented revenue growth. Prior to that, he was launch editor of Stuff magazine USA (1999-2001) and UK (1996-1999).
chickendinner is editorially independent but is supported by advertising, so we encourage you to click on the advertisements on our Web site to support our sponsors.
