Blast from the past
March 7th, 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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March 2nd, 2010
By Nick Harris
2 March 2010
England face Egypt tomorrow at Wembley in a fixture with only two previous meetings - a 4-0 friendly win for England in 1986 in Cairo and a 1-0 World Cup victory at Italia 90. But the Anglo-Egyptian football relationship goes further back than Howard Carter’s discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1923.
By that time, the English football league had already had its first two Egyptian imports, one of whom had been embroiled in a contract controversy, while the other had become a cover star of what was effectively the best sports magazine around.
Hassan (aka Hussein)...
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February 24th, 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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