By FRANK MALLEY John Bean, who has died at the age of 81, was from the old school of sports reporting. ‘Beano’, as he was invariably known, was a …
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Category: Obituaries
John Bean, soft-shoe shuffler who made Fergie laugh
The SJA’s immediate past chairman, DAVID WALKER, pays tribute to John Bean, the retired Manchester-based football writer who died on Friday. &nb…
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Tributes pour in for Guardian man Lucas
Tributes have been paid to “warm-spirited” Guardian rugby and cricket writer Dan Lucas who has died suddenly aged 31. Lucas was live blogg…
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Birmingham Post & Mail man Mike Ward has died
Mike Ward, who covered tennis and football for the Birmingham Post and Mail for many years, has died just days before his 66th birthday after developi…
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Former Sunday Times man Derrick Collier has died
Derrick Collier, a former production editor and deputy sports editor at The Sunday Times, died in Banbury on Tuesday (February 14). He was 93. Born on…
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Mail man Webster’s legacy to legend ‘Wor Jackie’
Bryan Webster, the former Daily Mail assistant editor and northern sports editor, died on Sunday, aged 84. Bryan’s death came only days after hi…
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Times shocked by death of racing writer Alan Lee
The SJA's Sportswriter of the Year in 2001, the year in which he also won our Specialist Correspondent prize, Lee had been The Times's racing correspo…
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Lovelock biographer Norman Harris has died
JOHN GOODBODY pays tribute to a former colleague whose journalism helped begin a sporting phenomenon in Britain…
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Farewell to SJA’s longest standing member
GRAHAM SNOWDON pays tribute to an old friend and colleague, Peter Bryan…
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SJA founder member Peter Bryan has died
As a youngster working in Fleet Street immediately after the Second World War, Bryan was one of 21 founder members who attended the first meeting of w…
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