By ERIC BROWN In the year it first appeared the Marquess of Salisbury was Prime Minister, Queen Victoria ruled and Aston Villa beat West Bromwich Albi…
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Category: Books and reviews
The magic of Marcelo: how Bielsa restored Leeds fortunes
A new book explaining how Leeds’ boom years turned sour and how Marcelo Bielsa later restored the club’s switchback fortunes is reviewed by ERIC B…
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Fleet Street’s chief rotter Jackson reveals all in ‘Reflections of a Mirror man’
By SJA President PATRICK COLLINS Five days before the opening of the 1978 World Cup, I sat in the Press Centre in Buenos Aires, staring at an e…
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Calvin confirms his status as one of the UK’s best sports writers of modern times
Former SJA chairman and national newspaper sports editor DAVID WALKER reviews the latest book by multi-award-winning sports journalist Michael Calvin …
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How grandson of a slave became Britain’s first black peer – the amazing story of cricketer Learie Constantine
Book review by ERIC BROWN Learie Constantine was a big man with a laugh to match. His guffaw reverberated around a room while his shoulders and chest …
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Before The Athletic, there was another journalism trailblazer … the ‘Athletic News’
By PHILIP BARKER Long before The Athletic, there was the ‘Athletic News’, essential reading for sports fans on either side of the first wo…
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No superlatives spared for Bobby Robson but ‘media mob’ take a battering
By PATRICK COLLINS, SJA President England lost a football match, and the usual suspects formed an orderly queue. Roy Keane – he of the tender heart …
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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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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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Veteran cricket journalist reveals Brian Close treasure trove of letters
By ROB STEWART Veteran cricket journalist David Warner has rolled back the years with an extraordinary book about English sporting icon Brian Close.&n…
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