JANINE SELF, right, has been reporting on football for 23 years. That, though, is not good enough for licensing authority Football DataCo Two decades …
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The Savage story of a novice sports ghostwriter
JANINE SELF, for 12 years a Midlands football reporter for The Sun, had her run-ins with Robbie Savage, but was the Wales midfielder’s first-cho…
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Bob Millward: Memorial Service
“The hard core of this team is not even a melon’s pip”
IAN COLE rounds up the World Cup and the rest of the week’s sport in quotes. Image from the World Cup final courtesy of MATTHEW ASHTON “I’ve…
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Sportcal launches free World Cup bid site
The 2010 World Cup may have finished; now draw breath and start researching the bidding to host the 2018 and 2022 tournaments.…
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Bob Millward, AP’s London sports writer, has died
Bob Millward, Associated Press’s London-based sports writer, died today in Johannesburg. He was 58.…
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Ingle shows us all how to pick World Cup winners
Even Facebook could not help NORMAN GILLER correctly predict the World Cup finallists. He would have been better off with Paul the Octopus. But, for d…
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World Cup security alert: cheese roll banned
Officiousness is the bane of many a sports hack’s life, but surely few of us have encountered anything quite as petty* as the World Cup security…
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World Cup TV viewers: do adjust your set
NORMAN GILLER was yesterday watching England’s “glorious” World Cup triumph over a nation that has has more brown bears than profess…
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Broadcasters’ Capello coverage is quick to criticise
PHILIP BARKER reviews the weekend TV, radio and newspaper coverage of England’s World Cup performances Radio5Live’s Mark Pougatch put it aptly…
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