Bob Hayes, the former Sun deputy sports editor, died on Wednesday, aged 67, after a short battle against cancer. Friend and colleague DAVE KIDD, The S…
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Category: Obituaries
TV sports presenter and reporter Steve Lee dies suddenly at the age of 68
By ANTON RIPPON Former television sports presenter Steve Lee has died suddenly at the age of 68. For a generation of viewers in the Midlands, Lee was …
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Daily Express man Sydney Hulls dies at the age of 97
Sydney Hulls, sports correspondent of the Daily Express for 33 years, has died at the age of 97. DAVID MILLER, former chief sports correspondent of Th…
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RIP Mike Ellis, ‘superb operator’ who ghosted Shankly, Paisley, Souness and Dalglish
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 …
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