The purchase of the London Evening Standard has prompted NORMAN GILLER’s memories of the days of that paper’s urbane correspondent, the fo…
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Month: January 2009
ECB: England Lions press conference
Bill Frindall
Bill Frindall, the cricket-loving scorer whose in-depth knowledge of the game’s minutiae and his own personality saw him become an integral part…
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200 jobs to go at Wapping?; People out of the picture
The People is to axe a sports reporter from its staff, among six job cuts announced which will see the Trinity Mirror-owned Sunday title operate witho…
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The Power turns on the charm for SJA
Report by Steven Downes. Pictures by Steve Rowe This week, it was an SJA lunch at the Old Bank of England. Next week, it’ll be the Rovers Retur…
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Accreditation: ICC women’s World Cup
Sun’s Payne moves to Guardian desk job
SJA member Gary Payne has been appointed as the deputy sports news editor at the Guardian and Observer group.…
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BOA chief: Stevens does not deserve 2-year drug ban
By Steven Downes Lord Moynihan, the chairman of the British Olympic Association who spent much of last summer in the High Court fighting a legal battl…
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Goalkeepers score with Hockey Writers’ awards
Great Britain’s goalkeepers in the Beijing Olympics were named as the Hockey Writers’ Club players of the year for 2008 at a ceremony in L…
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Spare us from the Flat-pack Olympics
2012 commentary by Steven Downes Just over 60 years ago, my grandfather took my then eight-year-old father on a bus ride through south London. It was …
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