Tag Archives: Rob Shepherd
Steve Curry remembered – by Rob Shepherd
Steve Curry could have been a Shakespearian actor.
He often recited soliloquies and speeches from Henry V to Macbeth - via Coronation Street - word perfect and with a pitch that would have satisfied Richard Burton, from erudite lips poised above a Kirk Douglas chin.
Tags: Bobby Robson, Bryan Robson, Daily Express, Italia 90, Rob Shepherd, Steve Curry
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.
Tags: Arsenal, david lacey, football writers, George Armstrong, James Ducker, Laura Williamson, Lee Clayton, matt law, Neil Custis, Nigel Clarke, philippe auclair, Rob Shepherd, Shaun Custis, Steve Anglesey
FWA Q&A: Rob Shepherd
ROB SHEPHERD on working at Harrods...being Quentin Tarantino for an hour...and a flower in his toilet panYour first ever newspaper?
After working as a messenger/copy boy for Hayters I joined the Weekly News/Sunday Post in their Fleet Street office; I returned to Hayters as a reporter, then joined my first national -Today - when it launched in 1986.
Tags: FWA Q&A, Rob Shepherd, Times Newspaper