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Simon Lowe, better known as Sid Lowe, (born, June 21, 1976, in Archway, London) is a Madrid-based British columnist who has been covering Spanish football for The Guardian newspaper and Guardian Unlimited website since 2001. He also regularly appears (via phone or Skype) on the Guardian Podcast Football Weekly where he gives updates on the latest news in La Liga, the top division of Spanish football. He writes regularly for World Soccer magazine and FourFourTwo and gives updates on the Asia-based FourFourTwo (TV series). Sid is also TalkSPORT's reporter in Spain who brings regular reports to the Hawksbee and Jacobs show as well the Drive Time show with Darren Gough and Adrian Durham. He also works as a football commentator and panellist for Spanish, Asian and US television, and also appears on the TV channel of Real Madrid C.F.. Sid can also be heard regularly on the US based soccer show "Beyond the Pitch" www.beyondthepitch.net. Sid gives regular La Liga updates a few times a month In February 2008 Lowe completed a PhD, titled “The Juventud de Acción Popular in Spain, 1932-1937” at the University of Sheffield. The thesis deals with the origins of the Spanish Civil War. .

In August 2008 Lowe wrote a news piece for The Guardian that caused considerable controversy in Spain, in which he reported on a photo that showed the Spain national basketball team posing in a way that could potentially be seen as offensive to the Chinese and other Asian people. The Chinese embassy in Spain declared that they "didn't consider the gesture as racist".