By ANTON RIPPON It is getting on for a year since the newly-appointed editor gave me the news: after 20 years, my freelance contract with the Derby Te…
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Independent on Sunday sports columnist, former sports editor of The Observer, and twice SJA diarist of the year, Alan Hubbard celebrates his 65th year…
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By SARAH JUGGINS There was a recent post on twitter where an exasperated journalist was berating students for contacting her asking to carry out inter…
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Mary Raine was a pioneering football journalist who made history by becoming the first woman to be heard on Sports Report. PHILIP BARKER tells her ext…
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Half a century ago The Big Match was just completing its first season. PHILIP BARKER recalls how John Bromley and Jimmy Hill revolutionised televised …
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Norman Giller, honorary Life Member of the SJA and once our regular ‘golden oldie’ blogger, makes a welcome return to our website to mark the open…
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PHILIP BARKER watched his first big football match on February 22 half a century ago. How time flies. Fifty years on, it has come as rather a s…
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As Richard Scudamore prepares to ride off into the sunset after changing the financial face of football thanks to tv revenue, ANTON RIPPON looks back …
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