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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Category: Books and reviews
Fleet Street veteran Miller pens book for children’s charity Starlight Foundation
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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Simply phenomenal: The story of multi-winning record-breaking trainer Mark Johnston
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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Pocket-sized but Football Annual packs a big punch
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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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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