This tribute was written by four-time SJA award-winner Stephen Jones for the Sunday Times and is reproduced here with their permission Nick Mason,&nbs…
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By ANTON RIPPON It is getting on for a year since the newly-appointed editor gave me the news: after 20 years, my freelance contract with the Derby Te…
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By ANTON RIPPON The 2019 press pack who followed England women to the FIFA World Cup provided a watershed moment, both in terms of national print cove…
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A new book which traces Jack Walker’s galvanising effect on modest second division outfit Blackburn Rovers in the early 1990s is reviewed by ERI…
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Award-winning sports editor Mark Edwards leaves the Oxford Mail today after almost 21 years. Only last month an Edwards-led special project won the su…
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By Eric Brown Colin Grainger shared dressing rooms with Stanley Matthews and the Beatles, scored on his England debut against Brazil and counted film …
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By Anton Rippon SJA members looking to cover the 2022 Commonwealth Games will be pleased to know that the Commonwealth Games Federation Coordination C…
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By Anton Rippon Juliet Slot, the wife of SJA multiple award winner Owen Slot, is one of three new faces on the British Olympic Association Board. Juli…
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By Anton Rippon Judges were ‘bowled over’ by Duncan Hamilton’s biography of Neville Cardus that has won for the freelance sportswriter a record-…
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The SJA was delighted to make use of the efficient services of News Associates students at the British Sports Awards 2019, sponsored by the National L…
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