VOTE NOW: Voting is open for the rest of this month for SJA members to back their Sportsman, Team and Sportswoman of 2016. Hockey writer SARAH JUGGINS…
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Month: November 2016
Ron Beagley: a legend of his own lunchtimes
Beagley served on what was then the Sports Writers' Association's committee from the 1960s into the 1980s, when for a long period he was the official …
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What’s the point of the post-match interview?
Rugby writer Richard Wetherell has come up with a typically blunt, Northern take on pre- and post-match sports interviews and the obsession with quote…
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James ‘shocked and devastated’ to be axed
Steve James announced his departure via Twitter last Friday morning. "Utterly shocked and devastated to be told that, due to cuts, I will no longer ha…
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Nick Townsend is appointed as SJA secretary
The SJA is pleased to announce that our new secretary, with immediate effect, is Nick Townsend…
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Football memoir passes a chilling acid test
ERIC BROWN reviews the autobiography of one of English football’s black pioneers…
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Stalwart former treasurer Bill Colwill has died
Bill Colwill was a hockey man, through-and-through, renowned for an encyclopaedic knowledge of the game, and he was reporting on the sport for The Obs…
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Hong Kong-based member Roger Ryan has died
Roger Ryan, a former sports sub on the Daily Mail who remained a member of the SJA for more than 20 years while working in Hong Kong and Beijing, has …
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Count on Konta to be our Sportswoman of 2016
Voting is open for the rest of this month for SJA members to back their Sportsman, Team and Sportswoman of 2016. JANINE SELF, the SJA's vice-chair, sa…
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Emery’s team to launch hockey title next week
The stable behind The Non-League Paper, The Cricket Paper and The Rugby Paper are set to launch the country's first dedicated hockey title next week…
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