Conor Curran is Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and has taught sports history at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He has published two books, The Development of Sport in Donegal, 1880-1935 (2015) and Irish Soccer Migrants: A Social and Cultural History (2017).

David Toms is an independent scholar based in Norway. Previously, he taught sports history at University College Cork, Ireland, and his monograph, Soccer in Munster: A Social History, 1877-1937, was published in 2015.