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Remembering when Arsenal become football’s first TV stars
By ANTON RIPPON So, Arsenal – and the rest – won’t be competing in a European Super League after all. But the Gunners do seem to have the knack …
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TV sports presenter and reporter Steve Lee dies suddenly at the age of 68
By ANTON RIPPON Former television sports presenter Steve Lee has died suddenly at the age of 68. For a generation of viewers in the Midlands, Lee was …
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How sport tried to play on in WW 2 as the air raid sirens sounded
By ERIC BROWN With British sport trying to cope during the current Covid-19 pandemic, award-winning author Anton Rippon has gone back 80 years to high…
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Mike Ingham MBE looks back at amazing career with a special mention for SJA Doug Gardner award
Mike Ingham, for many years the voice of football on BBC radio, has written his autobiography, reviewed by ANTON RIPPON. On 29 May 1985, Mike Ingham w…
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How Steve Bloomer survived a WW1 prison camp – the real escape to victory
By ANTON RIPPON Steve Bloomer was football’s first super star. He scored a record number of goals for England, endorsed football kit i…
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View from the pressbox: When the interviewer becomes the interviewee in changing times
By ANTON RIPPON It is getting on for a year since the newly-appointed editor gave me the news: after 20 years, my freelance contract with the Derby Te…
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Success of Women’s World Cup means more football journalists looking ahead to 2023 edition
By ANTON RIPPON The 2019 press pack who followed England women to the FIFA World Cup provided a watershed moment, both in terms of national print cove…
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Birmingham 2022 thumbs up with promise of ‘fantastic’ Commonwealth Games
By Anton Rippon SJA members looking to cover the 2022 Commonwealth Games will be pleased to know that the Commonwealth Games Federation Coordination C…
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Hamilton wins £30,000 William Hill prize for record third time
By Anton Rippon Judges were ‘bowled over’ by Duncan Hamilton’s biography of Neville Cardus that has won for the freelance sportswriter a record-…
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