Voting is now open for the SJA2018 British Sports Awards sponsored by The National Lottery. As far as ANTON RIPPON is concerned, there is only one con…
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From the press box: 1966 and the day England lost the World Cup
Geraint Thomas’s Tour de France trophy has been stolen during a nationwide tour but that’s nothing when compared to the day England lost t…
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From the press box: When sport comes under fire
When war meets sport. And sport wins. ANTON RIPPON reports. IT’S a year this month since spectators at The Oval were urged to take cover for their o…
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From the press box: Working for nothing but the ‘warm glow’ of hearing your voice
SJA member ANTON RIPPON on the thorny issue of expecting journalists to work for free, especially in broadcast. IT was the spri…
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From the press box: England’s women footballers deserve more recognition
SJA member ANTON RIPPON on why England’s women footballers deserve the same recognition as the men, Nettie Honeyball, and where it all started. …
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Former SJA chairman O’Connor dies at 92
By ANTON RIPPON TERRY O’CONNOR, an early member of what became the Sports Journalists’ Association, and its chairman in 1961, has died at th…
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SJA member Rippon takes 2017 columnist of the year prize
SJA member Anton Rippon has been named Columnist of the Year in the 2017 Midlands Media Awards in gala evening organised by the Birmingham Press Club.…
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#SJA2017: pool poster boy Peaty has to be ultimate champion
The voting has opened for Sportsman, Sportswoman and Sports Team of the Year at the SJA British Sports Awards sponsored by the National Lottery. As fa…
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How fans made football game of the people
People change their houses, their cars, their jobs, sometimes even their spouses, but they never change their football team. ANTON RIPPON reviews Sava…
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BSkyB pioneer Vic Wakeling dies at 73
By Anton Rippon Vic Wakeling, the man behind the sporting broadcast revolution, has died at the age of 73. A former regional sportswriter, Wakeling be…
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