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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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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British Sports Awards: The view from table 30
THE VIEW FROM TABLE 30 by ANTON RIPPON FORGET the BBC’s SPOTY thing. The SJA’s British Sports Awards sponsored by the National Lottery is the only…
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Earlier and earlier…new regional daily deadlines will affect midweek sport
By ANTON RIPPON To think I once had to wait until the Midday Edition of the Derby Evening Telegraph to find out how Derby County had gone on at Leyton…
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Sacked Sunday Express columnist Mafham accepts Reach pay out
By ANTON RIPPON Former Sunday Express sports journalist Colin Mafham has accepted a “substantial” settlement from publisher Reach pl…
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Derby Telegraph columnist Rippon axed after 20 years
LONG-serving SJA member and award-winning newspaper columnist Anton Rippon has been dropped by the paper for which he has written for the past 20 year…
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View from the press box: what is it about Leeds United?
By ANTON RIPPON Leeds spygate was all over the media at the weekend. The Leeds United-Derby County clash at Elland Road, televised b…
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VIEW FROM THE PRESSBOX: when football finally hit the tv jackpot
As Richard Scudamore prepares to ride off into the sunset after changing the financial face of football thanks to tv revenue, ANTON RIPPON looks back …
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