Thanks for the laughter – RIP Hugh McIlvanney

  PATRICK COLLINS, SJA president, pays a wonderful tribute to Hugh McIlvanney, who has died at the age of 84   One winter evening in the eighties, a group of sports writers boarded the London-bound train at Manchester Piccadilly station. We started to speak of the match we had covered that afternoon, and of United’s decisive … Continue reading Thanks for the laughter – RIP Hugh McIlvanney