Obits – Sports Journalists’ Association

March 16, 2021

He came to my house, can in hand, and we would have a long, liquid dinner and I’d get him another pay rise – Burgess on Johnson

CHARLIE BURGESS, founding sports editor of The Independent and the man who gave Martin Johnson his break in national newspapers, tells the story behin…

March 15, 2021May 4, 2021

RIP Martin Johnson, master of the withering prose…little dulled his pen

Martin Johnson, former cricket correspondent of The Independent, sports feature writer of the Daily Telegraph and multi-faceted writer for The Sunday …

March 1, 2021

RIP Bob Driscoll: a journalist who would spot a story when no-one else could

Bob Driscoll, former Sun, Star and Daily Mail football reporter, died on February 26 at the age of 80. His friend, The Sun’s former chief footba…

December 31, 2020February 17, 2021

‘Dad felt an almost spiritual kinship with the Fleet Street haunts he left behind’ – RIP Adrian Brown

OLIVER BROWN, chief sports writer of The Telegraph, pays a personal tribute to his father, Adrian, who died on Boxing Day at the age of 83 …

November 14, 2020November 14, 2020

RIP: SJA member Bill Meredith from 13-year-old copy boy to Telegraph assistant sports editor

The Football Writers’ Association have kindly allowed us to publish their tribute to SJA member Bill Meredith, who has sadly died at 92. By John…

October 26, 2020November 26, 2020

To be in the presence of Kevin McCarra was to be in the presence of the nicest, kindest human being you could wish to meet

Kevin McCarra, who has died aged 62 of Alzheimer’s disease, was football correspondent for the Guardian from 2002 to 2012. His colleague and friend …

October 15, 2020

Category: Obits

He came to my house, can in hand, and we would have a long, liquid dinner and I’d get him another pay rise – Burgess on Johnson

RIP Martin Johnson, master of the withering prose…little dulled his pen

RIP Bob Driscoll: a journalist who would spot a story when no-one else could

‘Dad felt an almost spiritual kinship with the Fleet Street haunts he left behind’ – RIP Adrian Brown

RIP: SJA member Bill Meredith from 13-year-old copy boy to Telegraph assistant sports editor

To be in the presence of Kevin McCarra was to be in the presence of the nicest, kindest human being you could wish to meet

Former Spurs official photographer Mick Eason dies at 77

RIP John Wilford – the man who brought Clough and Revie together in TV special

Former Mail head of sport and ‘Football Rascal’ Cooney loses cancer fight

A sledgehammer wit which made him a legend – RIP former Sun deputy sports editor Bob Hayes