GERRY COX recalls a time when the soon-to-be ex-President of world football was a lot more welcoming to the British press. He even offered biscuits wi…
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Fleet Street has been on FIFA trail for decades
The FIFA corruption story this week grabbed headlines when authorities stepped in to take action. As MATT SCOTT reports, the British media has been re…
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How can you report on a horror such as Heysel?
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Heysel Stadium disaster. PHILIP BARKER reflects how TV, radio and newspapers tried to report the events as the…
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Winter to fulfill ambition with move to The Times
It has been a bad few weeks for the Telegraph, but the loss of their football correspondent of the last 21 years - and his 1m Twitter followers - coul…
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Sunday Herald’s Grant gets the call to join The Times
After working at the Sunday Herald since launch in 1999, its football correspondent is moving to The Times's beefed-up Scotland operation…
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Farewell, Mighty Mackay, the great football warrior
NORMAN GILLER pays fond tribute to a sporting hero with a trawl into his archives for an interview from 40 years ago with a footballer who won the Eng…
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BBC Radio Kent are latest to get Priestfield ban
CHRIS DAVIES reports on the latest media ban meted out by Gillingham, a club which has already claimed what ought to be a most unwelcome entry in the …
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Accreditation: Summit on FIFA future, Jan 21
Media are invited to attend the Brussels Summit, which will include a media conference after the event as well as an opportunity for one-on-one interv…
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Midlands football merry-go-round among media
West Brom and Birmingham City's press offices have both pilfered respected local reporters while Aston Villa are looking for a replacement for their E…
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How football still kicked off as country went to war
ANTON RIPPON looks back a hundred years at the public and press reaction to the 1914-1915 football season, which continued against the backdrop of a w…
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