The Sports Journalists’ Association of Great Britain have agreed a ground-breaking amendment to their constitution to allow the position of chairman…
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Tag: Randall Northam
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A 20-year Olympic absence and no Rio regrets
VIEW FROM THE PRESSBOX: The Games may be coming, but RANDALL NORTHAM has no great hankering to be working at 2016's 'Greatest Show On Earth'…
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Absorbing tale of United player rated ‘better than Giggs’
RANDALL NORTHAM on a book by Oliver Kay which tells the forgotten story of one of football's lost talents…
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York’s tall tales of short jockeys and long odds
VIEW FROM THE VIP BOX: The SJA's annual Race Day at York is beginning to be the stuff of legend. Like the myth of the day when RANDALL NORTHAM, pictur…
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A Messi finish but not in La Liga of their own
VIEW FROM THE PRESSBOX: Not for the first time, RANDALL NORTHAM thinks he's seen it all before. Only when it comes to the Lionel Messi penalty pass to…
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The day Sir Alf took me and Jules Rimet for a ride
VIEW FROM THE PRESS BOX: You don't want to believe everything you read in the papers, or what national heroes tell you. RANDALL NORTHAM recalls the da…
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Here’s proof of what is needed to get published
VIEW FROM THE PRESSBOX: Think you've got a sports journalists' life story to write? Publisher RANDALL NORTHAM is sceptical, but offers some advice on …
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Joe Lancaster: agency man who drove a bargain
Joe Lancaster was a champion distance runner, a football trainer and entrepreneurial journalist who dabbled in a bit of import-export at the Moscow Ol…
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Sportswriter who added romance to his moonlighting
VIEW FROM THE PRESSBOX: In an era of zero hours contracts and under-employment, RANDALL NORTHAM recalls sports journalists who have "multi-skilled" in…
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8.7sec Bolt in the rain but a night to remember
RANDALL NORTHAM, or "The Curmudgeon of Facebook" as he has become known, had a smile put on his face by a wet evening spent at Hampden Park…
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