Graham Spiers, The Times’ Scottish football correspondent, has interviewed John Motson, the recently-retired BBC football commentator, as part …
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Month: August 2008
What’s Chinese for ‘Six blank receipts please?’
From Barry Newcombe, SJA Chairman Beijing, Monday: Giving instructions to taxi drivers can be a problem as, usually, the passengers do not speak Chine…
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Marching to the rhythm of the news beat
From Shekhar Bhatia in Beijing On Saturday, I filed for five Sunday newspapers and there were splashes, spreads and a few bylines. Undoubtedly, I am a…
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Liu’s injury creates Beijing media frenzy
From Barry Newcombe, SJA Chairman Beijing, Monday: All China was in a state of shock today when defending Olympic champion, 110m hurdler and national …
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Papers rise to challenge of Great Haul of China
From Barry Newcombe, SJA Chairman Beijing, Sunday: Super Saturday at the Beijing Olympics was fully reflected in today’s British newspapers, des…
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No change to football ID card rules
Some members have contacted the SJA expressing concern that Football DataCo, the organisation that administers the central accreditation system for Pr…
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Sun rises early to snap up Adlington parents
From Barry Newcombe, SJA Chairman Beijing, Saturday: For Great Britain, and the media team across all outlets, today began with the magnificent exampl…
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Olympian task of multi-platform sport
BEN CLISSITT, newly appointed head of sport across The Guardian, Observer and guardian.co.uk, recently outlined for Press Gazette a typical, pre-Olymp…
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Michael Phelps – the billion dollar brawn
From Barry Newcombe, SJA Chairman Beijing, Friday: The cash registers are already ringing for the sensation of these Olympics, perhaps all Olympics, t…
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History beckons on Beijing’s Super Saturday
Tomorrow – already dubbed “Super Saturday”, just as the middle day at the Sydney and then Athens Games became known – has the …
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