Obituaries Archives - Page 6 of 12 - Sports Journalists' Association

December 31, 2019April 30, 2023

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…

October 25, 2019November 16, 2019

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…

September 27, 2019April 30, 2023

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…

September 27, 2019April 30, 2023

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 …

August 14, 2019May 1, 2023

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…

August 14, 2019May 10, 2023

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……

August 14, 2019April 30, 2023

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…

July 30, 2019July 30, 2019

Telegraph’s Mr Snooker, John ‘Henry’ Dee, dies after short illness

John Dee, former snooker correspondent for The Daily Telegraph, has died after a short illness at the age of 82. Dee was part of the circuit as the sp…

July 10, 2019August 28, 2019

Memorial service for Andrew Longmore

A memorial service to commemorate the life of Andrew Longmore, the former Independent on Sunday and Sunday Times sportswriter, is to be held at …

June 27, 2019April 30, 2023

Hearts pay tribute following death of club photographer Ron MacNeill

SJA member Ron MacNeill, club photographer at Hearts, has died. The Scottish club revealed his passing on their website. Paying tribute, Hearts said: …