By ERIC BROWN Jimmy Greaves looked rather sheepish and anxious as he stood just inside the open cabin door scanning rows of seated passengers with ple…
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In the year it first appeared the Marquess of Salisbury was Prime Minister, Queen Victoria ruled and Aston Villa beat West Bromwich Albion in an exclu…
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By JON BATHAM, SJA committee member Lilian Thuram’s ‘White Thinking’ is a challenging, complex, academic and at times distinctly uncomfortable r…
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DAVID MILLER, former chief sports correspondent of The Express and subsequently The Times, has chosen his 50 biggest sporting names for a book which w…
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By PATRICK COLLINS (SJA President) On August 23, 2018, a 20-1 outsider named Poet’s Society won a modest handicap at York. And British horse racing …
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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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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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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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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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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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