By JON BATHAM, SJA committee member Lilian Thuram’s ‘White Thinking’ is a challenging, complex, academic and at times distinctly uncomfortable r…
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Fleet Street veteran Miller pens book for children’s charity Starlight Foundation
DAVID MILLER, former chief sports correspondent of The Express and subsequently The Times, has chosen his 50 biggest sporting names for a book which w…
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Simply phenomenal: The story of multi-winning record-breaking trainer Mark Johnston
By PATRICK COLLINS (SJA President) On August 23, 2018, a 20-1 outsider named Poet’s Society won a modest handicap at York. And British horse racing …
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Fleet Street’s chief rotter Jackson reveals all in ‘Reflections of a Mirror man’
By SJA President PATRICK COLLINS Five days before the opening of the 1978 World Cup, I sat in the Press Centre in Buenos Aires, staring at an e…
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Calvin confirms his status as one of the UK’s best sports writers of modern times
Former SJA chairman and national newspaper sports editor DAVID WALKER reviews the latest book by multi-award-winning sports journalist Michael Calvin …
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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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Blood and Circuses ‘a fascinating yet nightmarish journey into the wild east’
PHILIP BARKER reviews Blood and Circuses, the story of what happened to football in the former Soviet Bloc after the cold war ended Robert O’Connor …
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Henderson laments what could be the end of county cricket
Rambling around former favourite cricket venues turned out to be a depressing journey for Michael Henderson who recounts his trip in a new book review…
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How France’s world beaters left their magnifique mark on football
A new book charting the progress of French international football from the dark days of 1966 to 2018 world cup glory is reviewed by ERIC BROWN. They a…
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Four decades on and Clive Allen still looking for answers to Arsenal transfer riddle
By ERIC BROWN It was, perhaps, football’s greatest mystery. Why did Arsenal make striker Clive Allen the first £1million teenager in English fo…
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