Blast from the past
December 5th, 2011
By Nick Harris
SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year
5 December 2011
Bill Nankeville is perched on the edge of his chair, explaining the 'austerity' tag routinely attached to the 1948 London Olympics, in which he ran for Britain in the 1,500 metres.
'We ate stodge, ran on grass that became mud, didn't do it for money - and went home on the bus when our races were done,' says the 86-year-old, once among the nation's best-known athletes and still contagiously enthusiastic.
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The lighting of the flame at the 1948 London Olympics
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Nankeville, who also ran in the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, was national mile...
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November 1st, 2010
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JOHN ROBERTS wrote for the Daily Express, The Guardian, the Daily Mail and The Independent, where he was the tennis correspondent for 20 years. He collaborated with Bill Shankly on the Liverpool manager’s autobiography, ghosted Kevin Keegan’s first book, and has written books on George Best, Manchester United’s Busby Babes (The Team That Wouldn’t Die) and Everton (The Official Centenary History).
As Matthew Engel once wrote in the British Journalism Review: “I suspect posh-paper sports writing changed forever the day John Roberts left the Daily Express to join The Guardian in the late 1970s, was handed a piece of routine agency copy and picked up a telephone to start...
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October 13th, 2010
JOHN ROBERTS wrote for the Daily Express, The Guardian, the Daily Mail and The Independent, where he was the tennis correspondent for 20 years. He collaborated with Bill Shankly on the Liverpool manager’s autobiography, ghosted Kevin Keegan’s first book, and has written books on George Best, Manchester United’s Busby Babes (The Team That Wouldn’t Die) and Everton (The Official Centenary History).
As Matthew Engel once wrote in the British Journalism Review: “I suspect posh-paper sports writing changed forever the day John Roberts left the Daily Express to join The Guardian in the late 1970s, was handed a piece of routine agency copy and picked up a telephone to start...
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