Bert Trautmann's death this week, at the age of 89, prompted ANTON RIPPON to remember the awkward launch of the former Manchester City goalkeeper's bi…
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Month: July 2013
O’Connor one of three staff to leave Times sport
Ashling O'Connor, the sports news correspondent of The Times, is one of at least three sports desk staff to be leaving the paper in the latest round o…
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Five sports staff face redundancy at Independent
The choice of the five from the sports staff, including some of the papers' best-known figures, was made by management without reference to the papers…
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Sharpe’s vision for football overlooked by the game
ANTON RIPPON on one of the first football broadcasters, a sports journalist who happened to be a former footballer…
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If you can’t stand the heat, get off the football pitch
If the heatwave continues for another couple of weeks, we could be seeing some strange scores on the opening day of the football season, writes ANTON …
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Murray’s champion performance is one for the generations
Sports writers working at Wimbledon in 2013, such as Neil Harman of The Times, are a fortunate lot, writes the SJA website's self-acclaimed old git, N…
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FA magazine kicks off women’s sports careers
A new magazine Kick Off Your Career is published this week, a joint venture by the Football Association and the Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation…
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Get well soon, Parky, from all of us at the SJA
The Sports Journalists' Association has sent a goodwill message to our President, Sir Michael Parkinson, after the news at the weekend that he is rece…
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Harold Pinter, Len Hutton, the Ashes and Nobel Prizes
ANTON RIPPON doesn't like to brag about it, but did he ever tell you about the time a royal corgi sniffed his trouser leg...…
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Press call: Glory Moments exhibit, July 8-9
VIP and 2012 Team GB athletes available for interview and photocall at City Hall in London on Tuesday, July 9 ahead of a public exhibit of a collectio…
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