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Brodkin the lone Guardian of the Sports Desk
BY CHRISTOPHER DAVIESFor Jon Brodkin, December 25 was just another working day on the Guardian sports desk. With one significant difference – he was the only member of the staff on duty along with colleague Penny Woods who was looking after the web site.
Yesterday was the first Boxing Day the Guardian had published during deputy news editor (sport) Brodkin’s time with the newspaper so a Christmas work rota had never been necessary.
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Barclay to leave The Times in January
By CHRISTOPHER DAVIESPatrick Barclay is to leave the Times next month after two and a half years as the newspaper’s chief football commentator.
His departure is by mutual consent, a phrase that raises cynical eyebrows when related to a managerial exit but Barclay, one of the most experienced and respected football writers in what older hacks still call Fleet Street, insists it is true.
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Steve Tongue: My Week
Find out what The Independent on Sunday's Steve Tongue has been up to with the latest in our My Week series...
Friday November 4
To NUJ chapel meeting regarding the forthcoming merger of sports desks on the Independent, Independent on Sunday and Evening Standard. There have been times in the past 38 years when union subs have felt a luxury but the Indy chapel remains one of the best supported in what we used to call Fleet Street. Militant mood on hearing that there could be up to 20 redundancies overall, the feeling being that resources are already stretched ...
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Glenn Moore: My Week
Find out what The Independent's Glenn Moore has been up to with the latest in our My Week series...
Friday October 28
I'm normally in The Independent's Kensington office on Fridays, working on our Saturday sports supplement, but there's a change of schedule today. I'm up early to finish off a story about ‘The Four Year Plan’, a highly-revealing forthcoming film about QPR in the Briatore/Ecclestone era, then it's off to the fourth and final day taking the FA’s Youth Award, module 1, one of the new generation courses which focuses on ...
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Mike Collett: My Week
Find out what Reuters Soccer Editor Mike Collett has been up to with the latest in our My Week series...
Thursday Oct 20
The one thing certain about being a journalist is that no two weeks, no two days in fact, are ever the same. As the football editor of Reuters, the world’s largest international news agency, I tend to spend a fair amount of time travelling. This year alone I’ve been to Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Poland, Ukraine, Germany, France….and Aldgate in east London where the Reuters sports desk is based. It so happens that writing the diary ...
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FWA Q&A: Philippe Auclair
In this week's FWA Q&A, we chat with Philippe Auclair of France Football about the Flintstones, Richard E Grant and having Thierry Henry's coathanger at home...
Your first ever newspaper?
France Football, as it happens, if it’s football we’re talking about. Otherwise, Le Courrier Cauchois, a minuscule weekly from my native Normandy, for which I wrote ‘colour pieces’ about local history while still at school.
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Martin Lipton: My Week
By MARTIN LIPTONChief Football writer
Daily Mirror
Friday Oct 14: Still recovering - probably quicker than Fabio Capello - from the late-breaking news of Wayne Rooney's Euro 2012 ban and the press conference leftovers from Chelsea to devour as well. A few calls to UEFA - to confirm an appeal would be a shot to nothing, with no chance of the ban being increased - and the FA to pass on the news and seek a reaction. Otherwise, quite a quiet day.
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