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Special award at North East FWA Dinner
A SPECIAL TROPHY FOR A SPECIAL FOOTBALLER
The friendship between former Sunderland striker, Jermain Defoe, and young cancer patient, Bradley Lowery, touched everyone who saw the pair together.
Bradley, from Blackhall Colliery, was diagnosed with neuroblastoma at only 18-months-old and last year his mum, Gemma, shared the devastating news that the cancer was terminal. He passed away in July aged just six.
The Day Two Teams Died
As we remember the Manchester United players and officials who perished in Munich 60 years ago, it is worth recalling the eight journalists who died in the air crash that day.Roy Cavanagh and Carl Abbott have written a remarkable book detailing the lives of those men, called "The Day Two Teams Died", which is available from Amazon. We caught up with Roy to discuss what was, for a lifelong Manchester United fan, a labour of love:
Munich – 60 years on
To mark the 60th anniversary of the Munich airliner crash that cost the lives of 23 passengers returning from Manchester United’s European Cup quarter-final in Belgrade, FWA chairman Patrick Barclay remembers the journalist victims. Eight of the nine football writers aboard died. Only Frank Taylor, of the News Chronicle, survived along with the photographer Peter Howard and Ted Ellyard, who had wired Howard’s pictures back to the Daily Mail.
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