Simon Inglis

His photography has appeared in numerous books and publications. In 2019, his photographs taken for the Played in Britain series were deposited in the Historic England Archive. Material from his stadium collection has been donated to the De Montfort University Special Collections Archive.

Inglis summarised Leitch's career for FourFourTwo magazine in 2015.

In 2015, inspired by the £1,000 free bet he received as a result of Played in London being shortlisted by William Hill, Inglis set out to discover whether he could earn more from betting cautiously with bookies than by putting the money into a building society. He ended up making 18.5 percent on his year's betting before donating the proceeds to charity.

Inglis' book Played in London, charting the heritage of a city at play, was published in September 2014 to great acclaim. It was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2014, selected as Book of the Year by both the Londonist website[1] and London Historians and described by the Mail Online as a "remarkable book" [2] and a "cracking good read" by The Times. Signed copies are available from Played in Britain [3]

In August 2014 Inglis was chosen as a Listed Londoner for BBC Radio London's Robert Elms programme.

In December 2005 he was described as an "iconoclastic historian" and "a national treasure who must be encouraged at all costs". His illustrated biography of the Scottish football ground designer Archibald Leitch, Engineering Archie, was runner up in the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2005.

Inglis edited the fourth and sixth editions of the Government's Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds (the Green Guide), published in 1997 and 2018 respectively, and continues to work for the Sports Grounds Safety Authority in an editorial advisory capacity.

Inglis was born in Sparkhill, Birmingham in 1955 and was a pupil at King Edward's School, Edgbaston. He read History and the History of Architecture at University College London, later training as a teacher in Leeds and teaching history at a comprehensive in Walthamstow, North London. Inglis is editor of the Played in Britain series on sporting heritage, published from 2004-2015 by Historic England. He describes himself as a now mainly 'arms length' Aston Villa fan.