Category Archives: Sam Wheeler
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 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: Cricket articles I wrote for the Yorkshire Post
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