By Eric Brown Colin Grainger shared dressing rooms with Stanley Matthews and the Beatles, scored on his England debut against Brazil and counted film stars among his friends. He rose from being a £1-a-week garage mechanic to become one of the finest footballers in England and a highly rated crooner who appeared on stage and […]
By ERIC BROWN It was, perhaps, football’s greatest mystery. Why did Arsenal make striker Clive Allen the first £1million teenager in English football only to sell him on 62 days later without playing a single competitive game for the club ? Arsenal paid Queens Park Rangers £1.25million for free-scoring Allen on 12 June 1980. The […]
JOHN ANDERSON pays tribute to Graham Taylor, the son of a sports journalist who went on to manage Watford, Villa and England, and to do a bit of broadcasting himself
A busy week of quotes from sport and the media, collected here by JANINE SELF
NORMAN GILLER waxes all lyrical as he looks forward to a return to a normal, civilised behavious this weekend – at the football
For 40 years, SJA member CLIVE EVERTON has seen off all challenges from authority to maintain magazine Snooker Scene as an independent guardian of his sport. Here he recalls some of its history
This week’s quotes from sport and the media includes Strictly Come Rugby, Manchester City’s parties and financials, Phil Neville and Tony McCoy on sporting fame, the latest Muhammad Ali anniversary, Sachin Tendulkar on the Ashes and Noel Gallagher on newspapers
Football commentator Clive Tyldesley has visited students on an NCTJ fast-track course to promote a new website aimed at young journalists
Seven of the awards bear the name of honorees in recognition of their services to sports media – John Bromley, Doug Gardner, Ed Lacey, Ian Wooldridge, Phil Sheldon, Mike Dickson, and Matthew Ashton. Learn more about them here. SJA Sports Journalist of the Year (John Bromley Trophy) 2025 Adam Crafton 2024 David Ornstein 2023 Adam […]
BBC news coverage has prompted complaints from sports governing bodies The BBC is at loggerheads with the England and Wales Cricket Board over the coverage of the recent Kevin Pietersen-Peter Moores sackings, according to a report in yesterday’s Daily Mail. Separately, World Snooker has complained over a BBC2 Newsnight report on the sport, broadcast in […]
