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CONFESSIONS OF THE FOOTBALL WRITERS

www.footballwriters.co.uk is one year old next week. We take a look back at some of the revelations in the popular Q&A section.


By CHRISTOPHER DAVIES


THE IDEA was to learn more about the football writers who spend their lives searching for stories that players, clubs and administrators would rather not be made public.

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FWA Q&A: James Ducker

JAMES DUCKER, Northern Football Correspondent of The Times, on Bruce Lee in the mixed zone...doing a chicken dance for Geri Halliwell...and drinking a £500 bottle of Disney wine

Your first ever job in journalism?
I did a week's work experience on the Manchester Evening News sports desk about four months after starting at university in Sheffield. Someone must have been feeling charitable that week because they asked me back and gradually I started to do more and more to the point where I was working regularly in a freelance capacity on sport by the time I reached my third and ...

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