The rumours of Howard Wheatcroft’s retirement have been greatly exaggerated. After 17 years as sports editor of the Daily Star, Wheatcroft admit…
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Month: September 2020
SJA Members: Cast your vote for Britain’s greatest sportsman and woman over the past 71 years
We’ve set you a virtually impossible task but being knowledgeable, opinionated and honest are all part of a sports journalist’s DNA. Every…
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SJA greatest Sportsman and Sportswoman: A look back at the last 71 years
PHILIP BARKER looks back at some of those who won our awards, and a few surprising omissions to give voters some food for thought on who is the SJA…
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London Marathon photographer Shearman ‘very disappointed’ to miss first race since 1981
By ANTON RIPPON IN more ways than one, Sunday’s 40th running of the London Marathon will be different from the previous 39. Only four photograph…
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Football Annual goes marching on, right on time
By ERIC BROWN Just 25 days elapsed between the last major event of a uniquely damaged season and the thud on my doormat announcing arrival of football…
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SJA British Sports Awards 2020 to go virtual
For the first time in SJA history we’re going virtual with our awards. Each December the members of the SJA traditionally stage the British Spor…
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Former Mail head of sport and ‘Football Rascal’ Cooney loses cancer fight
Bryan Cooney, former Daily Mail head of sport, has died after a battle with prostate cancer. The Scot, who had also been chief sports writer for the D…
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PA Media head of sport Ashley Broadley new SJA chairman
Ashley Broadley, PA Media head of sport (left), is the new chair of the Sports Journalists’ Association. He takes over from co-chairs Andy Ellio…
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Where fact meets fiction; love of Leeds sparks The Damned City
By TOM CLARKE Leeds have recruited a manager full of self-belief and new ideas, some of them controversial, with one clear mission: make us an importa…
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Nominations open for Football Black List 2020 awards
The Football Black List 2020 is open for business! First published in 2008, the list highlights black industry professionals who are positive influenc…
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