Wapping tabloids, The Sun and the News of the World, are axing at least four senior staff from their sports desks: Rob Shepherd, from the Sunday title…
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Know The Score books calls in administrator
By Anton Rippon Know The Score Books, the Warwickshire-based independent sports publisher that was founded in 2005, has gone into administration, leav…
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Scandal of football’s internet chat rooms
What’s the difference between established sports journalism, and much of what appears on the internet? In the case of the latest FootballersR…
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Messi-anic fervour of striker to match Greavsie
NORMAN GILLER says Lionel Messi’s performance in the Champions League was worthy of the greatest goalscorer he has ever seen If I was paid a pou…
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ESPN wins Premier League mobile rights
ESPN today announced that it had won the exclusive UK mobile rights for the highlights of all Premier League matches for the next three seasons, in wh…
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(Some) Modern football books are still rubbish
STEVEN DOWNES finds that football humour is rarely a laughing matter…
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Making rhyme or reason out of Lainson Wood
Prompted by the laureate’s response to David Beckham’s Achilles, the SJA’s very own “Bard of Bournemouth”, NORMAN GILLER…
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World Cup Big Brother house seeks fans
Budweiser, one of the sponsors of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, has launched a worldwide search for football fans willing to spend up to a …
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Brown study of Hartlepool’s dark days
It might be tough at the top, but it’s always been tougher at the bottom. ANTON RIPPON raids his archive to find an interview from more than a q…
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Managers and media need discretion of old Billy Nick
NORMAN GILLER is out of hospital, if not yet back to 100 per cent fitness, but hopeful of a full recovery. A bit like Aaron Ramsey, whose horror injur…
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