By Anton Rippon Vic Wakeling, the man behind the sporting broadcast revolution, has died at the age of 73. A former regional sportswriter, Wakeling be…
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Month: May 2017
Forty years on: How Packer changed cricket
Four decades ago marked the start of a cricketing revolution, the effects of which shook the game. PHILIP BARKER reports. Forty years ago this …
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Trans World Sport’s three decades of cutting-edge tv
Trans World Sport is 30 today. PHILIP BARKER pays tribute to the programme which gave him his first job in sports journalism. It has…
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Fifty extra-special shades of Brian Clough
Brian Clough’s career as player and manager is recalled in detail in a book reviewed by ERIC BROWN. October 22, 1960, didn’t have muc…
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Peter Lea, former Daily Mail sports editor, has died
Peter Lea, sports editor of the Daily Mail from 1987-1990, died on Friday at age 81. He had been ill since breaking a leg in a fall at home in Decembe…
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