JOHN ROBERTS: ‘As well as Busby’s Babes, some of the nation’s finest sports journalists died in Munich, 54 years ago on Monday’

February 3rd, 2012

* 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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Inside the court of Henry James Redknapp

January 30th, 2012

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 30 January 2012 The trial of Harry Redknapp and Milan Mandaric continues into a second week today at Southwark Crown Court. Proceedings are being covered by the full range of national media, and if you want regular 'live' updates too, then among others who have been tweeting from the court building, but not Court No6 itself, where tweeting is banned, are (click to get their Twitter feed): James Pearce of the BBC, Tariq Panja of Bloomberg, Sam Wallace of The Independent, Gordon Farquhar of the BBC, Matt Lawton of the Daily Mail and Paul Kelso...

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The Sports Lawyer: ‘It is entirely possible Dwain Chambers could compete at London 2012′

January 27th, 2012

THE SPORTS LAWYER is actually a posse of Britain’s brightest lawyers, from the Sport & Media team at the UK law firm, Thomas Eggar, who will be contributing features, analysis and insight on a regular basis on the key sports law issues of the day. In TSL’s latest column, Andrew Nixon discusses the controversial BOA by-law hearing. x x   By Andrew Nixon 28 January 2012 The controversial British Olympic Association by-law that imposes lifetime Olympic bans on athletes who have been suspended for six months or more will come before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on 12 March 2012. The hearing has been listed following the determination by...

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