The voting has opened for Sportsman, Sportswoman and Sports Team of the Year at the SJA British Sports Awards sponsored by the National Lottery. As fa…
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Alive and kicking: The Premier League at 25
Year zero, the dawning of a new era, call it what you will, it is a quarter of a century since the Premier League burst into life, revolutionising foo…
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Journalism giants hit for six by wonder women
On a ground-breaking day for women’s cricket PHILIP BARKER was at Lord’s to witness at first hand just how far the sport has come and, per…
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Keeping tennis real after all these years
Amid the media frenzy attending Chelsea’s title, Tottenham’s rainbow- fuelled farewell, the race for the Champions League and the play off…
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A glory glory goodbye to White Hart Lane
Farewell White Hart Lane. PHILIP BARKER was eight the first time he stood on the terraces at Tottenham’s iconic stadium and he says tha…
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Forty years on: How Packer changed cricket
Four decades ago marked the start of a cricketing revolution, the effects of which shook the game. PHILIP BARKER reports. Forty years ago this …
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Trans World Sport’s three decades of cutting-edge tv
Trans World Sport is 30 today. PHILIP BARKER pays tribute to the programme which gave him his first job in sports journalism. It has…
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Plum lives on in Lord’s new Warner Stand
By PHILIP BARKER County champions Middlesex meet Essex this week in the first match played at Lord’s this season. They will do so in front of a…
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Oldroyd leads way as BBC scoop four broadcast awards
PHILIP BARKER, co-chairman of the broadcast judges, reports on the winners and highly commended at the 2016 SJA British Sports Journalism Awards at th…
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‘They think it’s all over’ was just a start for TV football
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the start of the 1966 World Cup in England. PHILIP BARKER's account of the broadcasting of the tournament show…
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