By PHILIP BARKER Every sports desk worthy of the name has, by now, found room for the 50th anniversary edition of the Football Yearbook. Around 1,000 …
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Month: August 2019
It’s that time of the season again – the Nationwide Football Annual is out
Another year, another Nationwide Football Annual, reviewed by ERIC BROWN Now the football season can really start. That one missing item to go along w…
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The Great Romantic: Cardus book a must for aspiring sports journalists
By ERIC BROWN He was born illegitimate in a Manchester slum and never knew his father. His mother and aunt worked in a family laundry business by day …
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Welcome to the first edition of Shoot: Gifts, features, and a call for a footballers’ beauty contest
Shoot Magazine was launched 50 years ago. PHILIP BARKER unearths his first edition and takes a trip down memory lane The new football season had just …
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Avalanche of f-words take away from all that’s good in fans’ site, The Anfield Wrap
ERIC BROWN reviews a book which focuses on one of the most eventful years in the history of Liverpool FC from defeat in Kyiv to glory in Madrid. For t…
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Emery on Curry: ..flourishing among the big beasts of football with an ever-burgeoning contacts book
UPDATE, FUNERAL DETAILS: Friday August 30th, at 11.30, at St James Church, Weybridge KT13 8DF DAVID EMERY, former sports editor of The Express, on the…
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Norman Giller’s personal tribute to Steve Curry
Steve Curry, former chief football writer of the Daily Express, has died after a short illness. NORMAN GILLER pays this personal tribute……
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RIP: Joe Rigby ‘the perfect sports sub’
By IAN COLE JOE RIGBY, who has died suddenly, was one of those journalists without whom no sports department could function properly. Solid, dependabl…
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Book review: celebrating half a century of Shoot magazine
Nostalgia rules as ERIC BROWN reviews a new birthday book celebrating 50 years of one of football’s most iconic magazines. It’s August 16,…
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Cricket past, present and future on the agenda for Engel and Kynaston
Guardian cricket correspondent Matthew Engel and historian David Kynaston will be talking about cricket past, present and future next month. Engel is …
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