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FWA National Golf Day, Sept 29
This year's FWA National Golf Day, again generously sponsored by Vauxhall, returns to the beautiful Stoke Park in Buckinghamshire on Monday September 29.Reception and bacon butties from 9.30am, tee off times will be from around 11am, with late afternoon prize giving buffet meal.
The format will follow previous years with teams of four, stableford format with best two scores on each hole counting to the team prize. There is also an individual competition for FWA members.
Tags: FWA, fwa events, golf day
“Can you do 30 seconds, Mike?”
Henry Winter, Football Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, looks back on the career of BBC chief football correspondent Mike Ingham, who retired after the World Cup.Football hurtles back with indecent haste, but a friendly face - and familiar voice - will be absent from the Press room for the first time in 30 years.
Tags: bbc, england, Henry Winter, Mike Ingham, Premier League, world cup
Brazil 2014 – a reporter’s guide to safety and security
Essential Do’s and Don’t’s For Reporters Going to Brazil
(by Mike Collett, Reuters global football editor who has visited Brazil six times in three years)
There is no doubt Brazil is a beautiful country, but it is a country with a dark side. We all know it has wonderful beaches, samba music and a fantastic football tradition, but they will count for little if you are held up in broad daylight by some knife-wielding, wild-eyed scumbag lowlife demanding your wallet, mobile phone and laptop.
