Derek Clunge

Derek Clunge has been Eleutheria's sports columnist since 1988, having spent the previous year covering sport for a regional paper in circumstances he declines to elaborate on. He has attended four World Cups, three Olympics, and one darts championship that he insists was research. Derek's columns are characterised by a deep knowledge of sport as it existed before approximately 2004 and a philosophical detachment from most developments since. He references a specific match from September 1987 in roughly one column in three. He has never explained why. He was offered the role of Sports Editor in 2011 and declined, citing what he described as "a fundamental aversion to responsibility." Derek lives in Wolverhampton. He chose this. Gerald Shufflebottom finds this baffling. Derek finds Gerald baffling. They have never met and both consider this satisfactory.