About Me

I’m Gary Hutchinson, a digital content creator and Lincoln City supporter.

I spent 20 years working in the Builder’s Merchant industry before a drastic career change in April 2017. I turned my back on the industry I had dedicated two decades to and started writing for a living.

I’ve always enjoyed writing; English was the only subject I enjoyed at school, thanks to a teacher called David Slater. He energised me and made me relish reading and writing. I wanted to be a journalist from an early age, but the lack of opportunity in the mid-nineties took me down a different path.

I kept writing every so often for newspapers and later websites, briefly running a Lincoln City site called Lincoln City Mad. I blogged a little for Sky Sports, and twice brought back the Lincoln City fanzine, Deranged Ferret, editing eight editions.

In 2017, disillusioned with my full time job, I left to concentrate on my writing. With the support of my now-wife Fe, I started a magazine called A City United, focused on football across Lincolnshire. I ran my website, The Stacey West, and began working as a freelancer for The Lincolnite.

Shortly after that, Football League World approached me with an offer to write full-time, and while I was working there, I started my own site, The Real EFL. After publishing a couple of books, my current employer approached me about writing some freelance content for them. It started at 20 articles per month but is now a full-time job.

In July 2023, I started my own media company, Top of the League Media Ltd, to handle the different websites I oversee.

Away from the keyboard, I am still a big Lincoln City fan, but I also love going to gigs and playing pool (badly) with my mates. I’m married, living in the Lincolnshire Wolds with my wife, Fe, and our shih-tzu Charlie. After turning 40 a year or five years, I became more interested in fitness, and now I also enjoy going running around Withcall. I even maintain the village website, with at least 30 hits a year!