Former SJA committee member Tom Clarke shares an obituary of Peter Moss, who has died at the age of 95; Jeff Powell, Colin Hart and Peter Jackson also…
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‘Man of the People’ Alan Smith has died aged 90
Former SJA committee member Tom Clarke is grateful for information provided following the sad news of the death of Alan Smith, who worked for the Dail…
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Where fact meets fiction; love of Leeds sparks The Damned City
By TOM CLARKE Leeds have recruited a manager full of self-belief and new ideas, some of them controversial, with one clear mission: make us an importa…
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How Ian Wooldridge upset Prince Philip and the Kremlin 40 years ago
The Moscow Olympic Games opened on July 19, 1980. Four decades on, PHILIP BARKER tells the story of the part that Ian Wooldridge played as politics th…
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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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Letting Simon Barnes go is a ‘stunning mistake’
TOM CLARKE, the former sports editor at the Daily Mail and The Times and editor of the Sporting Life, responds to the latest cost-cutting news from th…
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‘The judges judged’: acclaiming a night of acclaim
TOM CLARKE, the chairman of the SJA's sports writing judges, enjoyed Monday evening's fruition of a year's efforts, but sees room for improvement…
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Tom Clarke: Why I cannot back Gazette decision
The highly respected TOM CLARKE withdrew from judging a sports journalism award - after he found the organisers bending their own rules…
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Express delivery on an overdue subs’ desk reunion
A blast from the past from NORMAN GILLER this week, after he attends a reunion of former colleagues from his days at the Daily Express when it had mor…
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Puzzling 25 years and never a cross word
This week, NORMAN GILLER is keen to show he is not entirely clueless 91 across: Williams, relatively speaking (7) Haven’t a clue what I’m …
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