NORMAN GILLER believes that when the Mail on Sunday’s Patrick Collins retires, we will be witnessing the career end of one of the finest of all spor…
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Month: November 2014
Trinity Mirror sounds last Post for Berks papers
Free titles the Reading Post, Surrey Herald and Surrey Times will close on December 17; the Wokingham and Bracknell Times, Harrow Observer and Woking …
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SJA stalwart John Samuel is admitted to hospital
John Samuel, the sports editor of The Guardian from 1968 to 1986, is seriously ill in hospital after a heart attack and a stroke…
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Indy’s head of sport, Mike Dunn, in shock exit
According to sources in the newspapers' office this afternoon, at least two other sports desk staff are leaving the titles as well as Dunn…
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Racing Post’s 2015 Annual is a galloping good read
Not since he was about to receive his Roy of the Rovers Annual has ANTON RIPPON had such anticipation for the publication of once-a-year volume…
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‘Best of his generation’ Patrick Collins to retire
"The Mail on Sunday has indulged and supported my scribblings throughout the past 32 years, and I am leaving with the warmest of memories"…
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Column by SJA member prompts Derby memorial
“The club read my piece and within a couple of hours of it appearing, plans were in place. The whole thing caught the imagination"…
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Sun snaps up Lipton, as Ley leaves Telegraph
NORMAN GILLER gets into his starting blocks for a row over Crystal Palace and Boris Johnson, and hears the starter's gun fired for staff changes on th…
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Proud of work that ensured we remember them
Sports journalist TREVOR FRECKNALL has become part-sleuth, part-historian in retirement, his writing efforts helping to fund memorials to some forgott…
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#SJA2014: Why I am voting for – Jo Pavey
SARAH JUGGINS goes for heart over head when it comes to choosing her Sportswoman of the Year…
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