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Category archive: Football writers

30 Jan
2012

Goal.com: deputy editor

Having already surpassed the online audience of most of the leading newspapers’ sport sections in the UK – and with a global audience of more than 30 million – we are now seeking the right person to join our team and play a key role in helping take us the next step

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27 Jan
2012

Time to praise the man who set the goals standard

Goal master: Jimmy Greaves in his Tottenham days in the 1960s

NORMAN GILLER is home from hospital and planning another book with Jimmy Greaves, whose goal-scoring record is better even than Lionel Messi

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20 Jan
2012

Ticker’s on the mend. Now for a ticking off

Peter Osgood: as good as Pele?

NORMAN GILLER, safely out of hospital, his bedside manner severely tested, pays respects to his old mate and football writing colleague John Moynihan, who really did “have friends who had friends who knew Augustus John”

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18 Jan
2012

“Colossus who waged bitter battle against bigotry”

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Birthday wishes to an icon, Mark Hughes back in management, the two-footed tackle, Olympics football and the cheery Andy Murray…just some of this week’s sporting quotes compiled by JANINE SELF

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18 Jan
2012

Millwall book’s re-run emphasises Family values

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Watford-born-and-bred Michael Calvin spent a season as a fly on the Millwall. The resulting self-published book has now been picked up by a publisher and appeared with an updated edition

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13 Jan
2012

Taylor appointed chief football writer at Guardian

Daniel Taylor: guardian of a fine football heritage

Manchester-based Daniel Taylor has been appointed as The Guardian’s chief football writer, in further changes to the paper’s sports desk following the departure of chief sports writer Paul Hayward to the Telegraph

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10 Jan
2012

BBC Sport Interactive: football journalist

You will write and maintain multi-media online sports news pages and background content to the highest professional standard, drawing on own knowledge, expertise and contacts, in tandem with agency, other BBC, and user-generated material

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6 Jan
2012

Daily Record’s Jim Traynor joins exodus of staff

Jim Traynor: going off the Record

Jim Traynor, the Daily Record’s executive sports editor and long-standing columnist, is set to leave the paper amid a new wave of departures of senior staff at Trinity Mirror’s Scottish subsidiary

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5 Jan
2012

Euro 2012 accommodation: Kiev

The owner of a two-bedroom apartment in Kiev has contacted the SJA, since the property is available for rent during the Euro 2012 football championships this summer and may be convenient and suitable for journalists working in Ukraine

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30 Dec
2011

Golden days for Olympic reporter who scored with Britain

Action from the 1912 Olympic football final, when Great Britain won the gold medal

On the eve of 2012, PHILIP BARKER looks back to the Olympic year of 1912, and the football reporter who won a gold medal for Britain at the Stockholm Games

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