Kris Mole

2010 South Africa World Cup - A2B Editors

Kris Mole is a journalist/writer/degenerate who grew up in London and Brighton.

His biggest passion in life is the team from North London that plays in white. This has been the case since the times when top-flight football was still available live on terrestrial telly. After each game he’d go into the garden where he’d be Gazza, Lineker, Nayim, and even Erik Thorstvedt.

Kris turned out to be a half-decent player as he got older, and spent a couple of seasons playing in the Slovenian 3rd and 2nd divisions as a striker. His proudest moment came when he found himself lining up against Olimpija Ljubljana in a league fixture in the then national stadium (They’d been relegated for financial irregularities).

On show that day for Olimpija was Miran Pavlin, who represented his country at Euro 2000 and the World Cup finals in 2002. Pavlin didn’t get a look-in that day, though.

Ankle ligament damage soon forced Kris to give up the game, leaving him with far too much spare time that once had been taken up by the 5 nights a week of training.

Gambling took over. He left Slovenia and returned to England where he bummed around for a bit before taking a six-month journey around Europe without any money, to gain subject material for a book he planned to write.

His further descent into some of life’s vices at least provided him with a blog that was well followed by the gambling and fellow degenerate online community, but he brought it all to an end in January 2010 as he took up the position of news editor on a London-based magazine.

Since then, he’s trying to be a grown-up.

His passion for international football lies as much with the Slovene national team as with the 3 lions, and he still hasn’t decided if he’s excited or devastated by his two teams being drawn in the same group in South Africa. Either way, it’ll give him plenty to write about.