Neil Harman joined the Daily Mail in its Manchester office in 1981, was appointed tennis correspondent in 1986 after eight months as a member of the original intake of 'Today' and became the Mail's football correspondent in 1990, spending seven years in the role before departing the paper after 16 years' service in 1997.
15 Facts About Neil Harman
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Neil Harman was the recipient of the ATP's Ron Bookman Award for Media Excellence in 2005 and is a past chairman of the Lawn Tennis Writers' Association and a former president of the International Tennis Writers Association.
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Neil Harman coined the term "Spice Boys" in a Daily Mail piece published in March 1997 to describe a group of high-profile footballers playing for Liverpool FC in the mid-to-late 1990s.
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From 2004 to 2014, Neil Harman wrote the Wimbledon Annual: the official publication of the Grand Slam tournament.
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Neil Harman co-wrote the Davis Cup The Year in Tennis publication until 2006.
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In 1999, Neil Harman published an account of the rivalry between Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski over the preceding year.
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Neil Harman has written Court Confidential, an 'insider' account of the tennis world, published in 2013.
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Neil Harman assisted Andy Murray in the publication of his biography Andy Murray: Seventy-Seven: My Road to Wimbledon Glory.
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In 2017, in association with the famed gambler, Harry Findlay, Neil Harman wrote Gambling For Life.
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In July 2014, it was revealed that Neil Harman had plagiarised material for the official Wimbledon yearbook, which he had written since 2004, in the editions of 2011 through to 2013.
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Neil Harman was asked to step down from the role in early 2014.
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Neil Harman admitted the allegation and subsequently resigned from the International Tennis Writers Association.
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Neil Harman was suspended from The Times in late July 2014.
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Neil Harman was dismissed from his role in October 2014.
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In May 2023, Neil Harman suffered a near fatal hemorrhagic stroke and spent four months in hospital.