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FOOTBALL WRITERS PREPARE TO HONOUR NIALL QUINN
LOCAL RIVALRIES will be put to one side as the region’s football community comes together to celebrate the very best of the 2010/2011 football season on Sunday night.Sponsored by Barclays, the 2011 North East Football Writers' Association awards dinner at Ramside Hall Hotel in Durham is a regular highlight in the region’s football calendar. It will be attended by a star-studded guest list, which includes players, managers, directors and officials from of all the north east football clubs.
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John Moynihan Funeral Service
Gerry Cox on the Match of the Day farewell to a football writer and friend.
THE CREAM of British sportswriting talent turned out in numbers to honour John Moynihan at the football writer's funeral service on Tuesday January 30.
Hugh McIlvanney, Brian Glanville, Pat Collins and Henry Winter were among the many at Mortlake Crematorium for the service, where John's former Sunday Telegraph colleague Colin Malam did a reading and evoked fond memories of John, who was 79 when he passed away two weeks ago.
Farewell to a Friend
Ian Laws was the sort of guy who gave reporters a good name.SUNDERLAND Echo journalist Ian Laws died on January 26 of a suspected heart attack at the tragically young age of 41. Friend and colleague Graeme Anderson recalls the man known to one and all as Lawsy.
IT’S still impossible to take in the fact that Ian Laws has gone, but the truth is we might have lost him in the spring of ’99 when, by his own account, an elephant almost sat on him.