Former players of the football club he has supported since he was a boy have honoured a member of the Sports Journalists’ Association…
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‘A true gentleman and first-class journalist’
'For the generations who grew up reading Hull's Saturday Green Mail, Mally Richardson was the man responsible for not just pulling it all together, bu…
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Nicholson’s 30 years at Derby survived a Savage-ing
The Derby Telegraph's chief football reporter has been working on the paper for 30 years, thanks in part to some important preparation work…
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100 not out: Giller’s life story is one to inspire
ANTON RIPPON reviews the autobiography of a Fleet Street sportswriting stalwart which includes more stars than the London Planetarium…
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Chad apologises to club over off-target match report
ANTON RIPPON reports on how a local paper had to give itself a yellow card over an embarrassingly inaccurate match report…
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Klopp is headline pun-maker’s unspun dream
NORMAN GILLER klip-klops with glee over the new Liverpool manager, and frets over his choices for the Sportsman of the Year…
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Dixon provided football copy that delights the ages
Trawling through the archives provides unexpected gems, as ANTON RIPPON has discovered the long-forgotten works of a football writer from a bygone age…
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Sport gets its collar felt, in a hundred different ways
'Ello, 'ello, 'ello, what's going on here then... ANTON RIPPON feels the cover of a new edition of a book about sport's many scrapes with the law…
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Dark side of sport reflected in 2015 vintage books
ANTON RIPPON runs the rule over the recently announced long-list for the 2015 Sports Book of the Year Award…
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Pit bull savages ratings as a pointless exercise
Player ratings are no longer the sole preserve of tabloids, and are an integral part of most newspapers' coverage. Certainly, the public wants them. B…
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