NORMAN GILLER is feeling suitably hyped-up ahead of this week's "most vital match in the history of English rugby"…
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Month: September 2015
Dark side of sport reflected in 2015 vintage books
ANTON RIPPON runs the rule over the recently announced long-list for the 2015 Sports Book of the Year Award…
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Pit bull savages ratings as a pointless exercise
Player ratings are no longer the sole preserve of tabloids, and are an integral part of most newspapers' coverage. Certainly, the public wants them. B…
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French hero Rives transcends the true art of rugby
PETER BILLS, the biographer of Jean Pierre Rives, reviews a new book about the former international and his latest career, as a sculptor…
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Gazette celebrates Armfield’s 80th in style
The Blackpool Gazette celebrated former England and Blackpool captain Jimmy Armfield’s big day earlier this week with a cake and a front-page tribut…
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BBC Radio Derby’s Bryan Harris has died
ANTON RIPPON pays tribute to an award-winning producer of local radio…
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ITV’s first XV looks like it needs help from the TMO
PETER BILLS was glued to his TV set over the first weekend of the Rugby World Cup. He just wishes there were fewer "experts" crammed into the ITV comm…
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Mike King funeral arrangements for Oct 2
The funeral for Mike King, the former SJA Sports Photographer of the Year, will take place on Friday, October 2, in East Dulwich…
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Jockey Club backs young journalists’ drinks, Oct 20
The popular SJA's young sports journalists’ networking evenings return next month, once again with generous backing from The Jockey Club…
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The Beckham playbook that will kick off debate
Was he actually any good? ERIC BROWN looks at the evidence assembled in Steve Tongue's new book…
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