The SJA’s 2014 Autumn Golf Day, when the Phil Sheldon Trophy will be contested, will be staged at Muswell Hill Golf Club in north London, on Monday …
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Month: April 2014
A typewriter? Forgotten tools of the reporter’s trade
ANTON RIPPON remembers a bygone age of local newspapers, where most of the equipment were museum pieces even while they were still in use…
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Holt interview kicks off a week’s focus on media
The Bleacher Report has been running an "Inside the Football Media" week, kicked off with the Daily Mirror's Oliver Holt talking about his life doing …
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It’s deja vu all over again for impatient Old Trafford
For NORMAN GILLER, the fate of David Moyes was sealed the moment he agreed to take over as Manchester United boss from Sir Alex Ferguson…
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Julian Wilson’s death marks the end of an era
NORMAN GILLER on the ending of a 100-year dynasty of sports journalists…
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Departure of David Moyes is sign of things to come
The sacking of David Moyes was announced this morning by Manchester United on Twitter, while the story was broken yesterday on newspaper websites. By …
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Rochdale’s long-suffering fans ‘win’ a league
ANTON RIPPON has been following, and reporting on, Derby County for many years. But statistics show things could be worse, much worse …
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Callow takes the honours at SJA Spring Golf Day
You would have been forgiven for thinking everyone had played poorly in this early-season test of the hackers among us hacks, as the various groups tr…
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Celebrating my half-century as a sports writer
SJA member BOB HARRIS began his career in 1964, and he's ready for more…
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We must never forget what happened to the 96
DAVID WALKER was a shocked eye-witness to the tragedy at Hillsborough 25 years ago. Here, on the day of the moving memorial service at Anfield, he rec…
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