By Philip Barker It is not often that the media get the chance to have a go at a sport in top-class facilities on the eve of a world championship, still less when the rules of that sport have been changed in dramatic fashion only a few months before. About a dozen journalists yesterday took […]
PHILIP BARKER on the anniversary of the launch of a football publishing phenomenon that gave us League Ladders, “You’re The Ref” and “Shootman” With much fanfare and even an advertising campaign on television, Shoot hit the bookstands 40 years ago this summer, a weekly football magazine costing just 1 shilling, which they said was “for […]
sportsjournalist.co.uk broke all records for its site traffic in July 2009, even beating the Olympian heights reached during last year’s Beijing Games in August 2008, and not a rubberised go-faster swimsuit in sight.
By Philip Barker The sport was devised by the founder of the modern Olympics, but if Pierre de Coubertin was to return for next month’s modern pentathlon world championships being staged at Crystal Palace, he might have some difficulty recognising his creation. The event will be the first world championships in the sport to feature […]
VIEW FROM THE PRESS BOX: England go to Thursday’s second Test all-square in the Ashes series after a dramatic finale in Cardiff on Sunday. PHILIP BARKER looks back to previous Lord’s Tests against Australia and an unlikely hero The batting heroes of Sunday, Monty Panesar and James Anderson, have never claimed for themselves the prowess […]
Twenty years ago, international sport – and the map of Europe – was very different. PHILIP BARKER remembers being the only British journalist at the 1989 East German athletics championships Their sports machine was still in full cry. Pound for pound, the German Democratic Republic dominated world athletics. Yet many in the west questioned the […]
A new Treasurer and new-look SJA committee were the principle outcomes of the 2009 annual meeting, hosted courtesy of one of our sponsors, UK Sport, in central London yesterday. The meeting effectively wrapped up official business on probably the most momentous, and busy, year in the Association’s 60 years. Tributes were paid by SJA chairman […]
The SJA’s 2009 annual meeting takes place next Wednesday. Here is the report that the SJA chairman, BARRY NEWCOMBE, will be presenting to the meeting The 60th year of the Sports Journalists’ Association reflected our heritage and also our aspirations. On many fronts the SJA and its members showed that the Association is running well […]
The SJA website produced some Olympian performances in 2008, attracting almost 5 million hits and setting traffic records throughout the year. With final traffic figures now in, it is clear that sportsjournalists.co.uk enjoyed its busiest year yet during 2008. The site published more than 600 articles in the past 12 months, keeping our record number […]
As Tommy Godwin, the 1948 Olympic cyclist, prepares to attend the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards for the first time in his life tonight, he tells PHILIP BARKER about the role of one sports journalist at the last London Games 60 years ago Britain’s cyclists deservedly won the SJA’s Team of the Year […]
