Journalists – Page 2 – Football Memories

Richard Wilson

Posted in Journalists, Playing

A trial match for Glasgow and District terrifies Richard Wilson, who would rather be at home, watching the game with his dad…

Mark Wilson

Posted in Journalists, World Cup

For Mark Wilson, the pain of following Scotland has its roots in the summer of 1982, when he learned that sometimes your father really does know best…

Teddy Jamieson

Posted in Journalists, Playing

Teddy Jamieson recalls an unlikely hero in Northern Ireland. Teddy is the author of Whose Side Are You On: Sport, the Troubles and Me…

Dave Hannigan

Posted in Heroes, Journalists

A father give his son this sporting life…

Paul Hughes

Posted in Journalists, Playing

Paul Hughes’ dad was not slow to point out his son’s shortcomings as a footballer. But The Sun’s football writer has his old man to thank for turning him onto a career in journalism instead…

Bryan Cooney, Sunday Herald

Posted in Aberdeen, Journalists

Former Dons player Eddie Thomson was a hard man on the pitch and a true friend off it…

michael dawson introduces spurs' new signing, ollie graham

Barry Graham, sports journalist, Daily Mail

Posted in Journalists, Tottenham Hotspur

Barry Graham only made his seven-year-old son a Junior Spur to try and steer him toward his dad’s club. Now here he was, running out onto the pitch with Michael Dawson as the cameras rolled…

Georgina Turner

Posted in Journalists, Tottenham Hotspur

An OMG moment before they existed from @georgina_turner…

Jonathan Wilson

Posted in Journalists, Sunderland

The Guardian’s Jonathan Wilson’s personal account of the power of football memories…

Colin Orr, Greenock Tele and St Mirren FC website

Posted in Journalists, St Mirren

Colin Orr explains why years of mediocrity following St Mirren are a price he is willing to pay for one glorious season of Tom Hendrie’s total football…