Will Dalton

Why organisations work with Will Dalton

• Live-broadcast instincts. Eighteen years of Champions League, Olympics, and Premier League coverage means he reads a room the way he reads a touchline, with the timing of someone used to going out live.
• Interview craft built on names like Pele, José Mourinho, Andy Murray, Steven Gerrard, and Jackie Stewart. He gets executives, panellists, and customers to say something worth hearing.
• A presenter who has worked Chelsea TV since 2010 and Premier League Productions at top-flight grounds across England. Stage nerves are not part of the equation.
• After-dinner range that uses sport as material, not metaphor: dressing-room access, locker-room moments, the texture of elite events told with a journalist’s eye.
• Irish broadcast presence through Virgin Media Sport, useful for clients running Dublin events or wanting a host who reads as international rather than purely UK domestic.

Biography highlights

• Presenter and reporter, Virgin Media Sport Ireland.
• Chelsea TV presenter since 2010, covering senior team and academy.
• Premier League Productions reporter at top-flight English club grounds and Champions League fixtures.
• Olympic Broadcasting Service coverage at Youth Olympics Nanjing 2014, Rio 2016, and Pyeongchang 2018.
• Reporting credits at ITV News, ITN, Setanta Sports News, and Reuters.
• Post-graduate qualification in Broadcast Journalism and Media Communications.

Biography

Going out live is a specific skill. Eighteen years of Champions League nights, Olympic Games, and post-match interviews at Stamford Bridge train a presenter to think in seconds, hold a room with one talkback voice in the ear, and recover when the running order falls apart. That is the craft Will Dalton brings to corporate events.

His broadcast home is Virgin Media Sport in Ireland, where he fronts UEFA Champions League, Europa League, and Nations League coverage. Alongside that, he has been a Chelsea TV presenter since 2010, reported for Premier League Productions from grounds across England, and covered three Olympic Games for the Olympic Broadcasting Service. Earlier roles took in ITV News, ITN, Setanta Sports News, and Reuters.

The interview list reads as a who’s who of sport: Pele, Andy Murray, José Mourinho, Mark Cavendish, Eden Hazard, Steven Gerrard, John Terry, Jackie Stewart. That work is the underwriting for his stage presence. Buyers booking him for a host or moderator role are buying a journalist’s instinct for questions, not a celebrity name on a poster.

For after-dinner and keynote briefs, the material is sports storytelling with a working broadcaster’s access: what elite performers actually say off camera, how teams behave under pressure, how a manager’s first thirty seconds in a press conference tells you whether the dressing room is intact. The themes connect to business audiences, but the value is in the texture and specificity, not in claims to leadership theory.

Key speaking topics

• Conference hosting and moderation
• After-dinner sports storytelling
• Live broadcast interviewing
• High-performance sport culture
• Communication and audience engagement
• Champions League and Olympic event reporting

Ideal for

• Corporate conference organisers needing a professional broadcast host or MC
• Awards nights and gala dinners seeking a sports-led after-dinner speaker
• Panel moderation for sponsor activations, sports partnerships, and broadcast-adjacent industries
• Irish or UK events wanting a host with cross-market broadcast credibility

Audience outcomes

• A live programme that runs cleanly: tight transitions, sharp introductions, controlled Q and A.
• Panel sessions that produce useable answers because the moderator knows how to ask follow-ups.
• After-dinner content with first-hand sports detail rather than recycled inspirational tropes.
• Interviews on stage with executives, customers, or guests that read as conversations, not scripted exchanges.