FUNERAL DETAILS UPDATE: Mike Ellis’s funeral will take place at Macclesfield Crematorium Monday February 17 (10.0am). Mike Ellis, The Sun̵…
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RIP Charles Randall, ‘diligent and polite’ Daily Telegraph sports writer
FUNERAL DETAILS UPDATE: Monday, February 24 Christ Church Radlett (Watling Street, WD7 7JJ) and afterwards at Porter’s Park Golf Club, Radlett (…
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RIP Terry Cooper who set the rugby agenda and who asked the tough questions
PETER JACKSON, rugby writer for the Daily Mail for 35 years and President-elect of the Rugby Union Writers’ Club, pays tribute to former PA rugby co…
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Powerhouse Sunday Times and Guardian journalist Nick Mason…a sporting knowledge that bordered on the uncanny
This tribute was written by four-time SJA award-winner Stephen Jones for the Sunday Times and is reproduced here with their permission Nick Mason,&nbs…
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Ken Jones goodbye becomes happy 80th for George Cohen
By Norman Giller Ken Jones – the late, great Welsh sports bard Ken Jones – will not mind me telling this story about his funeral. I promise it wil…
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Athletics writer Neil Allen, who watched Bannister break mile record, dies at 86
By NEIL WILSON NEIL Allen, one of the finest of British athletics and boxing writers in the 1950s and 60s has died, aged 86. Allen was witness to many…
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Ken Jones RIP: From red-hot football reporter to authoritative and balanced all-round sports columnist
Ken Jones, former chief sports writer of the Independent has died at the age of 87. Close friend Norman Giller pays tribute. It was just a few weeks a…
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Emery on Curry: ..flourishing among the big beasts of football with an ever-burgeoning contacts book
UPDATE, FUNERAL DETAILS: Friday August 30th, at 11.30, at St James Church, Weybridge KT13 8DF DAVID EMERY, former sports editor of The Express, on the…
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Norman Giller’s personal tribute to Steve Curry
Steve Curry, former chief football writer of the Daily Express, has died after a short illness. NORMAN GILLER pays this personal tribute……
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RIP: Joe Rigby ‘the perfect sports sub’
By IAN COLE JOE RIGBY, who has died suddenly, was one of those journalists without whom no sports department could function properly. Solid, dependabl…
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