By ANTON RIPPON Frank Johnson, whose most precious technical aid was the pen-knife he used to sharpen his pencil, has died at the age of 78. Johnson w…
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How award-winning photographer Les Parkin took the European Cup home
By ANTON RIPPON AN award-winning photographer whose work regularly adorned the sports pages of the nation’s newspapers during Brian Clough’s glory…
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Former Express sports editor David Emery on making Jim Lawton his chief sports writer
As we slowly begin to come to terms with the sudden and untimely death of Jim Lawton, his former sports editor at the Daily Express, DAVID…
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Comms ‘Mr Big’ Mike Lee dies of heart attack at 61
Mike Lee, one of the most high-profile communications specialists in world sport, has died at 61. His family and VERO Communications, of which he was …
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World of basketball in shock over sudden death of Kevin Cadle
The Basketball Journalists’ Association is shocked and saddened by the untimely passing of our colleague and friend Kevin Cadle. He passed away …
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Mail man James, who forecast England 1966 win, dies at 87
Brian James, an outstanding sports and feature writer from the early 1960s through to the turn of the century, has died of heart failure at the age of…
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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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Peter Lea, former Daily Mail sports editor, has died
Peter Lea, sports editor of the Daily Mail from 1987-1990, died on Friday at age 81. He had been ill since breaking a leg in a fall at home in Decembe…
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Ex-Manchester United man Bean dies at 81
By FRANK MALLEY John Bean, who has died at the age of 81, was from the old school of sports reporting. ‘Beano’, as he was invariably known, was a …
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John Bean, soft-shoe shuffler who made Fergie laugh
The SJA’s immediate past chairman, DAVID WALKER, pays tribute to John Bean, the retired Manchester-based football writer who died on Friday. &nb…
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