EXTRA TIME MANAGEMENT - Key Persons
Paul Ince was born in Ilford in 1967, and grew up in Dagenham. He was spotted by West Ham coach John Lyall when he was 12, and signed for the Hammers as a YTS trainee at 14. In 1985 he was offered professional terms.
In 1989, he moved to Manchester United and His performances there earned him a call up to the England squad, and the captainship. Inter Milan paid £8 million for Ince in 1995. Professionally, his time at Milan was highly successful, and he returned to England in 1997 to join Liverpool. He was appointed captain, and wasted no time making himself indispensable to the team.
He has represented England on numerous occasions, including the European Cup in 1996 and 1998 World Cup Finals. After England's disappointing performance in Euro 2000, he called it a day for his international career but went on to enjoy spells at Wolves & Middlesbrough. Paul has 53 caps for England 2 Premier League Wins and 2 FA Cups. Paul continues to work in the football industry as a manager or broadcaster.
Extra Time Management work with Maggie in association with her PR & Talent Management agency Jules PR Ltd. Maggie Alphonsi is the face of international women's rugby and arguably one of the most well-known names in women's team sports on the planet!
Before announcing her international retirement in 2014, she represented her country an impressive 74 times, scored 28 tries, and helped England win a record breaking seven consecutive Six Nations crowns. She was also a crucial member of the team that won the 2014 Rugby World Cup for the first time in 20 years and was part of the team that was crowned the BBC's Sports Personality Team of the Year.
Through her England rugby career she has become a household name but also a media professional, and since retiring she has commentated on live rugby matches for SKY Sports, BT Sport and the BBC. In 2015 she became the first ever former female player to commentate on men's international rugby when she was signed up by ITV for the Rugby World Cup, and now she is working for ITV Sport on their RBS 6 Nations coverage.
Most recently, Maggie also made history by becoming the first ever former female player to be elected as a National Member of the Rugby Football Union's Council. Her role is to be a person of experience and influence in the Game.
Maggie is also an excellent speaker, and is well qualified to share her experiences. Certainly when she shares those experiences, you don't need to be a rugby fan to be interested or inspired by how she has become a prominent figure in the challenging world of a male dominated sport.
From South East London, Maggie has taken her education as seriously as her rugby obtaining a MSc in Sports & Exercise at Roehampton University, a BSc in the same subjects at De Montfort University and a BTEC National Diploma in Leisure Studies at Hertford Regional College. Additionally, she has been awarded a Honorary Doctor of Arts from the University of Bedfordshire.
Nigel Owens MBE is a Welsh international rugby union referee. He is an international and European Rugby Champions Cup referee and was the only Welsh referee at the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France and at the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. He was referee for the 2015 Rugby World Cup final in England.
Nigel was appointed as an international referee in 2005, and that year officiated at his first tier 1 international between Ireland and Japan in Osaka. Owens made his World Cup debut on 11 September 2007 in the match between Argentina and Georgia in Lyon, France. He is one of only two referees to be appointed to referee two consecutive Heineken Cup finals: Munster v Toulouse at the Millennium Stadium in 2008; and Leicester Tigers v Leinster at Murrayfield in 2009. He has since done a third and fourth final Leinster v Ulster at Twickenham 2012, and Toulon v Clermont in Twickenham in 2015 this as well as two European Challenge Cup finals makes a total of a record six European finals, making him the most capped referee in European competition. In June 2016 he became the most experienced international referee after taking charge of a Fiji v Tonga Rugby World Cup qualifying game.
He is also known as a TV personality, as one of the presenters of the S4C chats shows Jonathan and Bwrw'r Bar. Owens also hosts his own quiz programme Munud i Fynd.
Nigel is a fluent Welsh speaker and has worked as a school technician, a youth worker and worked on a farm for over a year as a farmhand. His autobiography, Hanner Amser (Half Time), was published in Welsh in 2008, then in English in 2009. He was a patron of the LGBT Centre of Excellence Wales, until its disbandment in late 2012. In 2013 Owens became a patron of Bullies Out charity in Wales.[5] He served at various times as secretary, chairman and president of the Wales Federation of Young Farmers Clubs. Nigel is a fan of Wrexham Football Club.