A trawl through the archives of his local newspaper in Derby has convinced ANTON RIPPON that football clubs have long had a problem with journalists "…
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Category: View from the pressbox
A typewriter? Forgotten tools of the reporter’s trade
ANTON RIPPON remembers a bygone age of local newspapers, where most of the equipment were museum pieces even while they were still in use…
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We must never forget what happened to the 96
DAVID WALKER was a shocked eye-witness to the tragedy at Hillsborough 25 years ago. Here, on the day of the moving memorial service at Anfield, he rec…
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Golden era when goals measured managers’ skill
On me 'ead son! ANTON RIPPON reminisces for a simpler approach to football tactics and analysis…
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If it hadn’t been for Hitler, I’d have been at Wembley
ANTON RIPPON knows whose side he's on this FA Cup semi-final weekend…
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The day Knighton got Carlisle in the space race
Working on the sports desk for a regional title, as ANTON RIPPON well knows, can offer up some out-of-this-world material…
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Wise heads and wisecracks as Powell is honoured
ANTON RIPPON travelled down from Derby to attend last night's BT Sport-sponsored SJA British Sports Journalism Awards. Here's the view from Table No7…
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Peter Laker and alarming times on Mirror sports desk
The Daily Mail's PETER JACKSON remembers Peter Laker and a mutual colleague, Tom Lyons…
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Ignorance far from bliss in 20-year football blackout
Imagine not being able to get score updates and live blogged match reports. For ANTON RIPPON and his contemporaries, this was a less-than-fondly remem…
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Lovely crowd shots. Can we cut back to the action?
RANDALL NORTHAM fails to understand television directors' obsession with showing scenes of spectators at sports events, when all viewers want to see i…
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