Monthly Archives: March 2014
Heineken Cup timeline – how Irish sides took over
Heineken.ie commissioned me to write a timeline of the Irish provinces’ exploits in the Heineken Cup. From small steps in the early days, to an era of dominance…
Archive: England 2, Croatia 3 – Wally with the Brolly
A bizarre set of circumstances meant I ended up reporting on one of the iconic England football matches. Hilarity ensued, thanks to Scott Carson’s howler for the ages and Steve McClaren’s Wally with the Brolly moment (which wasn’t really appreciated till the next morning):
Archive: England rugby – the glory years (er, for Ireland)
I covered England for eight years, either side of the 2003 World Cup success: from their peak to some pretty barren times.
Jonny gets the boot after Murrayfield 2008, possibly the most dismal match I ever watched (and I covered Leeds Tykes for 7 years):
Archive: Arts and travel (Morrissey, Morocco and John Shuttleworth)
Occasionally I have managed to escape my sports ghetto. I coerced the features department into letting me pen what amount to hagiographies of two of my heroes, Morrissey and John Shuttleworth. And I went on a press trip to Morocco.
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Archive: Dispatches from Rugby World Cup final 2007
Tightly controlled Yorkshire Post purse-strings prevented me from covering the whole tournament, but I managed to badger them into letting me go to the final, once England ground their way through the knockout stages.
I pretty much had to hitch-hike there – I think I wrote most of this stuff on a bench in Lille station, unable to get a direct Eurostar home. Still, it was quite an occasion. These two bits are part of a supplement I produced for the final.
Archive: Freelance pieces for top UK titles
During my time at the Yorkshire Post, I was regularly commissioned to write match reports for various national papers. I had to use noms de plume, though. Here’s a small selection:
Historic occasion – I was at Headingley on the day Mark Ramprakash became almost certainly the last man to reach a century of first-class centuries and wrote it up for the Sunday Times (pity it’s behind a pay-wall):
Archive: Wheeler-hosted webchats (Yorkshire Post)
Here’s me answering questions from readers online, ‘live’. Even the questions that came in before my hour-long slot were kept hidden from me – honest!
Archive: Cricket articles I wrote for the Yorkshire Post
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