“He is the best leader this country has ever had”
A busy week of quotes from sport and the media, collected here by JANINE SELF
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
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 […]
Freelances in other sports are understood to be in the same boat, each contributing, in terms of loss of earnings, a widow’s mite to facilitate the BBC’s payment of such absurdly inflated contracts as the £16.9 million over three years agreed with Jonathan Ross
The Snooker Writers’ Association has launched a campaign against PA Sport’s controversial decision to drop its regular freelance stringers and instead depend on the sport’s world governing body’s website as a source for its stories. Instead of its usual freelance contributors, PA Sport has said it will supply its reports by using staff reporters and […]
The SJA sends its best wishes for a speedy recovery to Clive Everton, the foremost authority on snooker, who is recovering from a broken hip.
A week in sport and journalism, through the words of the players and those who cover them. This week including Audley Harrison, Rio Ferdinand, Hugh McIlvanney, Paul Hunter and Gordon Brown, and racing pigeons and mobile phones