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Taking Pride in my work: Football writing and being LGBT+
By Jon Holmes
I’d been a football writer for more than 13 years before I felt confident enough to write about someone in the game who I knew was, like me, a gay man.
Tags: Jon Holmes, LGBT+
Student Football Writers of the Year awards – Ella Graunia Cook and Jacob Tanswell win
Congratulations to the winners of our inaugural Student Football Writers of the Year awards. Ella Graunia Cook has won the Vikki Orvice award and Jacob Tanswell has won the Hugh McIlvanney award – both were considered worthy winners by our judging panel, who were deluged with 536 entries to these first awards of their kind.
Tags: Adam Barker, Brendan Pitcher, Cerys Holliday, Elana Shapiro, Ella Graunia Cook, Hugh McIlvanney Award, Jacob Tanswell, jim white, Student Football Writers awards, Vikki Orvice Award
Peter Watson RIP
PETER WATSON, A FLEET STREET LEGEND DEPARTS
By Norman Giller
A huge old Fleet Street oak has fallen with the passing of Peter Watson, a powerhouse sports editor of the London Evening News and then the Sunday Express in the halcyon days of newspapers.
Tags: Norman Giller, Peter Watson, sunday express