Category archive: The Questionnaire

The winner of the Ian Wooldridge Award for the best young sports writer of the year, EMMA JOHN, revealed at the presentations last week that as a child, she kept cuttings of Woolers’ work on her bedroom wall instead of pop posters. Confronted by sportsjournalists.co.uk’s Questionnaire, John reveals all about gaffer tape, thongs and an [...]

Jim Munro has recently moved up in the world – by one floor at Wapping from his desk at the Sunday Times, where he was football editor for a decade, to become deputy sports editor at The Sun online. Here, he answers The Questionnaire, on reading McIlvanney and Glanville, Nigel Benn and deadlines, and making [...]

Peter Wilson is the SJA’s immediate past chairman, having stood down in April after three years in the chair which helped energise the Association. A regular on the Sunday Times sports desk for many years, Peter writes regularly on football and cricket, and enjoys opera and Arsenal. Here, he answers the SJA Questionnaire on his [...]

Rodney Hinds has been sports editor at The Voice, Britain’s leading black newspaper, since 2000, having started his career 25 years ago on on West Indian World. Here, he answers the SJA Questionnaire on Jodie Kidd and Sir Alex Ferguson, Thierry Henry, Linford Christie and Monty Panesar, and his own a career that has seen [...]

Monte Fresco MBE is one of the SJA’s most renowned members, following a 50-year career as a top sports photographer, including three decades at the Daily Mirror. Here, Monte answers the SJA Questionnaire.

Racing journalist Sean Trivass answers the Questionnaire on Dubai, Kieran Fallon and Martin Dwyer, and Everton’s European Cup triumph

Tim Southwell is the founder of GolfPunk magazine, which this week saw him honoured as editor of the year in the spcialist interest category at the British Society of Magazine Editors awards. Here, he writes about playing a round with Tiger Woods, wrapping up Elle Macpherson, and his admiration for Billy Bremner and Vincent Tshabalala

Stuart Robinson, vice-chairman of the Sports Journalists’ Association, answers the Questionnaire, on Botham and Elle Macpherson, “photographer’s shoulder”, and the help of the Frescos

Tom Clarke is the charman of the National Joint Pitch Council, the body which administers racecourse bookmakers and is presently deeply involved in negotiations over the future funding of horse racing.

He was appointed to the body after a high-powered career as one of Fleet Street’s most respected sports editors, an enthusiast and inspirer of his staff who held the top job at the Evening Standard, Daily Mail, Times and the Sporting Life. A member of the SJA for more than 30 years, he says that one of his proudest moments was when he received the prestigious Doug Gardner Award in 1992.

Here, he answers the Questionnaire on working with Charles Wintour, David English and Al Pacino, and his admiration for Desert Orchid and Muhammad Ali