Category archive: The Questionnaire

Former SJA vice chairman, broadcaster and author Paul Wade, answers this week’s Questionnaire on his career, from uncorking John Arlott’s wine to doing the football results on Dutch radio to meeting the likes of Teofilo Stevenson, and passes on sound advice from John Snagge

James Toney is managing editor at Sportsbeat. Here, he answers the SJA Questionnaire, and manages to mention Gordon Cowans, Michael Johnson, Nick Faldo and Lance Armstrong in a single sentence

Iain Carter, BBC Radio’s golf correspondent, at St Andrews this week, completes the SJA Questionnaire and tells of his admiration for Brian Lara and David Gower, Paul Hayward and Oliver Holt, and Chevy Chase. Carter has been in the BBC golf job for four years, having previously been BBC Radio’s tennis correspondent for five years [...]

“Veteran committee member” is too glib a tag to give to John Jackson, the long-time news reporter for the Daily Mirror whose cross-over work in sport saw a new style of news coverage developed, seeing him at 22 Olympic Games, more Wimbledons than Martina Navratilova, directing the traffic for Nelson Mandela and playing ping-pong with Pele (seriously)

Odette Butson combines freelance athletics writing with work in the police. “I actively compete in and follow athletics, but I also write features and interviews for Backtrack magazine (the offical magazine of the British Athletics Supporters’ Club), including reports on the Olympics and the Paralympic World Cup” she says

The 2005 SJA Sports Diarist of the Year overcomes his dislike for space-filler pieces like this to answer The Questionnaire, where he pours scorn on “media directors” and reveals an intriguing sideline in providing B&B accommodation to up-and-coming athletes called Coe. And he looks back on the “surreal” Rumble in the Jungle

One of the SJA committee’s “new intake” in April, Jon Ryan says being sports editor of the Sunday Telegraph is one of the best jobs in journalism, talks of his Idi Amin assignment, his admiration for tennis legend Rod Laver and dreams of seeing Arsenal reaching another European Cup final

Natasha Woods is the chief sports correspondent of the Sunday Herald. Here, she outlines her career for the SJA Questionnaire

Trevor Bond, former Chairman and Secretary of the SJA, answers the Questionnaire, revealing his admiration for Ali and Moore, Tiger Woods and… Dario Gradi