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A TRUE PROFESSIONAL WITH A PASSION FOR HIS CRAFT (who never changed his accent)

By CHRISTOPHER DAVIES

Sir Alex Ferguson was one of many who paid tribute to Malcolm Brodie MBE, a life member of the Football Writers’ Association, whose funeral was held at Cregagh Presbyterian Church in Belfast yesterday.

The former sports editor of the Belfast Telegraph covered a record 14 World Cup finals and did not miss a Northern Ireland match - home or away - from 1946 to 2009.

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In Memoriam: Kevin Moseley

Kevin Moseley - a brilliantly gifted reporter with contacts of the highest order

By ALEX MONTGOMERY

Kevin Moseley was a brilliantly gifted sports reporter whose news column in the Seventies, Eighties and into the Nineties, was a must read for every sports desk on Fleet Street. When the early edition of the Daily Mirror dropped – in later years it was the Daily Express -- more often than not there would be a scramble for the phones to check out and follow up another of his exclusives.

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In Memoriam: Malcolm Brodie MBE

MALCOLM BRODIE MBE – a man beyond a legend

By CHRISTOPHER DAVIES

Malcolm Brodie, a life member of the Football Writers’ Association, was unique in sports journalism – he had covered 14 World Cups and it would have been 15 had he not been on his honeymoon. He was awarded the Jules Rimet Trophy by FIFA as the journalist who covered more World Cup finals than any other.

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