Peter Desira

Peter Desira was born in Malta in 1955, emigrating to Australia in 1974, and is most well-known for his hard-hitting journalism in the Herald Sun. 

He began writing programs in Division Four of the Victorian Metropolitan League, before joining Green Gully a few years later. 

It was there that he wrote and edited the Green Gully Gazette, with his deep passion for the game shining through. 

He joined Laurie Schwab's Soccer Action in the 1980s, having gotten his first hit of mainstream journalism in 1979 with a column in the Sporting Globe, before becoming chief football write at the Herald Sun. 

Peter helped contribute to Super Soccer Sunday, turning it into a famous radio program, that gave starts to a number of excellent young journalists around the country.

With his knowledge of football and Green Gully in particular, Peter wrote a full-scale history of the club since its origins as a junior club in 1955, called Green Gully Soccer Club: The First Fifty Years. 

Peter toured extensively with Australian youth and senior teams to international tournaments and World Cup campaigns. 

He retired from journalism in 2010.