How do you fairly review a book written by a prominent SJA member about Tottenham Hotspur? Give it to ANTON RIPPON, someone who supports Dave Mackay’s other club that played in white First a confession: I’ve been a Derby County fan for 60 years and there have been no greater moments than when Brian Clough’s […]
Anyone suggesting that the law’s encroachment into sport is a new development would be wrong, as ANTON RIPPON found when reviewing an excellent new book on the subject In 1898, a more than lively football match between two Leicestershire village teams ended in tragedy when John Briggs, a young forward playing for Aylestone, was kneed […]
Ahead of this year’s Oxford v Cambridge University Boat Race, ANTON RIPPON reviews the latest book on the traditionally British sporting event, Blood Over Water, written by brothers but members of rival crews David and James Livingston On an overcast, blustery April day in 2003, for the first time in one of the quintessentially British […]
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 […]
Author and publisher ANTON RIPPON reviews a recently self-published book on horse racing during the Second World War On August Bank Holiday weekend in 1939, Hughie Green starred at Derby’s Grand Theatre, the band of the Life Guards played to a large crowd in a local park, and at the town’s racecourse on Nottingham Road, […]
Book review by Anton Rippon It is the title of the autobiography that Frank McGhee never wrote. For years, the Daily Mirror’s Voice of Sport promised that when his life story was published, it would be called Forgive Us Our Press Passes. Alas, McGhee died in 2000, his book still unwritten. But if he is […]
ANTON RIPPON is impressed by the detail and production values of two new reference works on Tottenham and Scottish football history
ANTON RIPPON reviews the sports reporter adventures of former Telegraph football man Christopher Davies, and discovers an interesting way of getting a taxi on a rainy night in Glasgow Among those who have never been fortunate enough to do the job there is a common – and understandable – misconception that sports journalists enjoy the […]
ANTON RIPPON reviews Nigel Vardy’s mountaineering epic, Once Bitten In April 1999, Nigel Vardy was one of three British climbers caught in appalling weather on the notorious Mount McKinley. Standing 20,320ft above sea level in the Alaska Range, its difficult approach and unpredictable weather make it one of the biggest challenges in mountaineering.
Duncan Hamilton’s account of his years working on a local newspaper, covering the goings on at Nottingham Forest under manager Brian Clough, Provided You Don’t Kiss Me, was declared the winner of the 2007 William Hill Sports Book of the Year at a ceremony in central London this afternoon. It was a timely award, coming […]
