VIEW FROM THE PRESS BOX: The ebb and flow of football fortunes mean that Preston North End will always be a big club to those of a certain age while C…
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Month: April 2017
What Prince William said to Alison Kervin, OBE
Mail on Sunday sports editor Alison Kervin received her OBE for services to sports journalism from the Duke of Cambridge at Buckingham Palace last wee…
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Nancarrow the marathon man for Royal Marsden
In December Daily Star sports sub-editor Keith Nancarrow’s pledge won a place to run in the Virgin Money London Marathon in aid of the Royal Marsden…
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I was grateful for security men – PA reporter Crooks on Nastase fury
Press Association Sport tennis correspondent ELEANOR CROOKS was verbally abused and physically threatened last weekend as she attempted to do her job …
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Elliott and Self are SJA first joint-chairs
The Sports Journalists’ Association of Great Britain have agreed a ground-breaking amendment to their constitution to allow the position of chairman…
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Team spirit the key to a big year for SJA
The SJA’s 2017 annual meeting takes place at Ye Olde Cock Tavern, Fleet Street on Thursday, April 20th and chairman Andy Elliott, who has …
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Plum lives on in Lord’s new Warner Stand
By PHILIP BARKER County champions Middlesex meet Essex this week in the first match played at Lord’s this season. They will do so in front of a…
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Family of Alan Lee set up foundation in his name
When Alan Lee died at just 61 in December 2015 the world of sportswriting lost one of its most gifted individuals – a man who, in a near 30-year…
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Funeral details for former Express man John Bean
The funeral of former Daily Express Manchester United reporter John Bean will be held on Friday, April 28th at St Edwards Church, Leek (12.45pm); Carm…
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Simply the best: The inside story of Wigan
Think Liverpool of the 70s and 80s, the West Indies in the same two decades, Manchester United in the Fergie years – and then add Wigan in the 80s a…
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