A Saturday morning staple for a generation of British sports fans, 'Trans World Sport' has been produced continuously since 1987 - until this week; th…
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Tag: Philip Barker
AIPS launches ‘Vote for the Champions of 2025’
AIPS has opened its end-of-the-year poll to choose the very best of 2025; AIPS members from all over the world can vote for the Best Athletes and Team…
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Gerry Harrison 1936-2025: Leading football commentator in 1970s and 1980s remembered
Throughout the Seventies and early Eighties, Gerry Harrison was the voice of football for ITV Anglia viewers. Philip Barker looks back on Harrison's b…
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Ashes summer 50 years ago featured vandalism and ‘freaker’ but made star out of Steele
The England cricket team of today has been taking on India in a feisty five-Test series, but half a century ago, Australia were visiting for a four-Te…
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That marvellous moment! London 2012’s thrilling bid victory remembered, 20 years on
In the first week of July 2005, Britain was on tenterhooks, as decision day loomed for the cities bidding to host the 2012 Olympics; two decades on, t…
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SJA AGM: Best wishes and goodbyes to Barker and Green, as Palacio joins committee
The 2025 Annual General Meeting of the Sports Journalists' Association was held on Thursday 12 June; Philip Barker and James Green step down from comm…
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Football’s darkest month, 40 years ago: Remembering Birmingham, Bradford and Brussels
In May 1985, three disasters at football stadiums - St Andrew's, Valley Parade, and Heysel - resulted in the deaths of nearly 100 fans, sending shockw…
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The curious case of the Olympic presidential election
The 10th president of the International Olympic Committee will be named this week at a Session in Greece; seven candidates are in the running, includi…
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England’s new dawn under Revie is history homework for new boss Tuchel, 50 years on
As Thomas Tuchel prepares to name his first England squad on Friday, Philip Barker looks back at Don Revie's first game in charge in March 1975, a 2-0…
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Journalists frustrated by behind-closed-doors hustings for IOC presidency
Cramped conditions in media room at futuristic Olympic House limit number of journalists at hustings to just 30; those present in Lausanne could get a…
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