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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: Shaun Custis

Shaun Custis (Chief Football Writer, The Sun) on being a theatre critic and a double-glazing salesman...being told by Fergie to work in Glasgow...and dog day afternoon in South Korea

Your first ever job in journalism?
I did a week’s work experience on The Hexham Courant where my first byline read Theatre: By Shaun Custis which will have some of my colleagues spitting out their sparkling water in disbelief. On my last day one of the reporters left a note for his mate warning him not to touch my typewriter because he had wired it up to 10,000 volts.

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