Phil Gifford

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Phil Gifford
Country New Zealand

Phil Gifford is now a Radio Show Host with his own rugby show 'Front Row' on Radio Sport from 8 to 10am on Saturdays. He writes a weekly column under his own name in the country's biggest circulation weekend paper, the "Sunday Star Times", and is a contributing editor to "North and South" magazine.

He has written rugby best-sellers including his book on Alex Wyllie, "Grizz, The Legend",which has sold 30,000 copies, making it the biggest selling New Zealand sports book of the 1990's. Phil used to Co-Host the MoreFM show in Canterbury with Simon Barnett from 1992 to 2003 and the show was rated number 1 in Canterbury, then in the 1996 New Zealand Radio Awards, was judged the best breakfast show in New Zealand.

The show was networked into Dunedin, his daily sports comments were networked to 24 Radio New Zealand stations nation-wide.