“Spencer is a tremendously resourceful, reliable, accurate and entertaining journalist, able to adapt his style to fit any brief. He is, in short, a gem.” – Tim Glynne-Jones, Editor, BBC Match of the Day magazine

“One of the few you can trust.” – John Entwistle, bass player, The Who
 

Spencer has written for many well known newspapers, magazines and agencies both in the UK and abroad, including The Guardian, The Observer, The Daily Mail, The Daily Star, The Los Angeles Times, The Jakarta Post, PA Sport, Empire, Rugby World and the BBC’s Match of the Day magazine, not to mention plenty of regional and local papers such as The Western Mail, Scotland on Sunday, The Northern Echo and The Western Morning News.

His speciality, without doubt, is sport (tennis, football and rugby union). You name it, he's covered it - the Wimbledon Championships, international football, the Rugby Union World Cup, even rally driving for partially sighted right-wing cats from Iceland (okay, we just made that one up!). 

However, he’s also at home producing articles on travel, entertainment (interviews with pop and rock stars, stage show reviews etc) and people who do interesting things, such as go to the Moon. Or Basingstoke.

Spencer cut his teeth covering news and appallingly bad football and rugby clubs for The Berks and Bucks Observer, before joining the World Entertainment News Network press agency in 1996 as a showbiz reporter.

Remarkably, WENN made him news editor of their Los Angeles bureau, a job that saw him rub shoulders with lots of rich and famous people. And Ocean Colour Scene. He went freelance in 1998 after returning to Britain from Los Angeles. 

Spencer also regularly appears as a guest lecturer at colleges throughout the UK, talking to journalism students about the pros and cons of working as a freelance writer.