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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Category: View from the pressbox
Carlisle’s star is playing fair to keep onside
After five times winning the Regional Sportswriter of the Year award, Jon Colman tells ANTON RIPPON about life as a local paper's football reporter…
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Master Blasters who are paid to make things click
ANTON RIPPON on the latest twist in the shift from newsprint to online "platforms"…
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The headline that prompted the European Cup
PHILIP BARKER on a Fleet Street 60th anniversary led to the creation of the biggest annual prize in football…
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Tell Sepp Blatter where to stick his World Cup
What does the Qatar 2022 World Cup and football of Raich Carter's era have in common? Not a lot, suggests ANTON RIPPON…
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Non-League Day, where every game truly matters
ANTON RIPPON hadn't been to a match at Spalding for 57 years. Non-League Day was a perfect opportunity for an over-due return…
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No stick from the media over Hockey World Cup
As Glasgow readies itself for the media invasion for the Commonwealth Games, SARAH JUGGINS sympathises with those tasked with catering for the press c…
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Krul world as Dutch push the penalty ‘envelope’
ANTON RIPPON always thought penalties were simple: shoot beyond the goalkeeper's reach. And now a university researcher has conducted a survey which h…
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Peake reaches sporting heights by going for a Burton
Part of the Tour de France-inspired "yellow fever" that is sweeping Yorkshire is a production at the West Yorkshire Playhouse of Maxine Peake’s Bery…
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Copping a few kind words on the Yorkshire beat
As a freelance football reporter, ANTON RIPPON used to look forward to his visits to Barnsley. Until one day in the 1980s…
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