Ivan Gaskell is a sports reporter for the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

. He joined BBC Sport in 1997, after working on East Midlands Today

East Midlands Today

East Midlands Today is the BBC's regional television news programme for its East Midlands region, which covers Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, and the Grantham and Stamford areas of Lincolnshire....

 for 10 years. He worked on World Cup

FIFA World Cup

The FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global governing body...

 coverage in 2002 and 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/worldcup2002/hi/tv_radio_coverage/newsid_2005000/2005060.stmhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/worldcup/2006/04/, and is a regular reporter on Football Focus

Football Focus

Football Focus is a BBC television show, broadcast on BBC One on Saturday lunchtimes, covering football, presented from the 2009/2010 season by Dan Walker...

, Match of the Day

Match of the Day

Match of the Day is the BBC's main football television programme. Typically, it is shown on BBC One on Saturday evenings during the English football season, showing highlights of the day's matches in English football's top division, the Premier League...

 and Final Score

Final Score

Final Score is a BBC TV programme produced by BBC Sport. The programme is broadcast on late Saturday afternoons in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, usually on BBC ONE. BBC Northern Ireland opts away during the last ten minutes to cover local results, BBC Scotland runs a different programme...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/football_focus/2896775.stm. Along with these duties, Gaskell also occasionally presents sports bulletins on the BBC News Channel

Gaskell is an alumnus of Noel-Baker Community School

Noel-Baker Community School

Noel-Baker Community School and Language College is a mixed comprehensive secondary school in Alvaston, Derby, UK. As of 2005, it is currently oversubscribed, with approximately 2000 students on roll, making it the biggest secondary school in the city of Derby...