By ERIC BROWN With British sport trying to cope during the current Covid-19 pandemic, award-winning author Anton Rippon has gone back 80 years to high…
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Category: Books and reviews
Blood and Circuses ‘a fascinating yet nightmarish journey into the wild east’
PHILIP BARKER reviews Blood and Circuses, the story of what happened to football in the former Soviet Bloc after the cold war ended Robert O’Connor …
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Breath of sadness…Ian Ridley’s moving tribute to his late wife Vikki Orvice
By SJA President PATRICK COLLINS Vikki Orvice was an outstanding sports journalist. She was feisty, resourceful and utterly professional. She had a pa…
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Henderson laments what could be the end of county cricket
Rambling around former favourite cricket venues turned out to be a depressing journey for Michael Henderson who recounts his trip in a new book review…
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Former PA chief sports writer Malley switches to fiction – royalties to charity
Former PA chief sports writer and Express columnist Frank Malley has hit the bookshelves with his first novel – and he admits it is aimed at a diffe…
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For sale: complete 50-year-old set of Rothmans Football Yearbook
By PHILIP BARKER It is almost 50 years since the first ‘Rothmans Football Yearbook’ hit the bookshops. Michael Archer, long time editor of ITV’s…
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How France’s world beaters left their magnifique mark on football
A new book charting the progress of French international football from the dark days of 1966 to 2018 world cup glory is reviewed by ERIC BROWN. They a…
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Ingham autobiography out in paperback – ‘for anyone who loves radio sport the way it should be done’
Mike Ingham’s acclaimed autobiography will be universally available at the end of March when it is released in paperback. Ingham, for many years…
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Missing pages deny Book his place in Manchester City’s illustrated history
Manchester City’s official illustrated history has been published to celebrate the club’s 125th anniversary but they seem to have missed out someo…
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Mike Ingham MBE looks back at amazing career with a special mention for SJA Doug Gardner award
Mike Ingham, for many years the voice of football on BBC radio, has written his autobiography, reviewed by ANTON RIPPON. On 29 May 1985, Mike Ingham w…
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