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Judging by the increase in requests received at the SJA offices in recent weeks, organisers of sports events in France, including rugby, football and …
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A rose by any other name would have sharp thorns
NORMAN GILLER has sailed off into the sunset, but still found time to recall the occasion Louis van Gaal compared his work to that of Shakespeare. Sor…
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Copping a few kind words on the Yorkshire beat
As a freelance football reporter, ANTON RIPPON used to look forward to his visits to Barnsley. Until one day in the 1980s…
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Winning numbers will make your copy add up
It may be overlooked, but to be a sports writer you need to be as good with numbers as you are with words, writes ROB STEEN…
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More Rippon yarns of our wartime sports exploits
"A player whose stroke is affected by simultaneous explosion of bomb or shell, or by machine-gun fire, may play the ball from the same place. Penalty:…
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Standing at football won’t be taken sitting down
NORMAN GILLER remembers old colleague Leslie Thomas, praises the TV work of Hazel Irvine, and hears about a disappointing visit to Upton Park…
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Folley’s lifetime of stars, deadlines and scoops
One of those to have left Associated Newspapers is MALCOLM FOLLEY, after 22 years as the Mail on Sunday's chief sports reporter. Here he remembers his…
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Banning reporters for doing their job is not new
A trawl through the archives of his local newspaper in Derby has convinced ANTON RIPPON that football clubs have long had a problem with journalists "…
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We’ve seen future of football writing, and it tweets
What has been the impact of Twitter and social media on football journalism? DAVID WALKER and JANINE SELF answer a student's questions on the future o…
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