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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.



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