David Walsh

Chief sports writer at The Sunday Times. From 23 July 2020, author of The Russian Affair.

[David Walsh @DavidWalshST]

@AshleyGill77 Hi Ashley, thank you for sending this photo my way. Brings back a host of memories, all of them happy. The two years at the Observer are up there with the best of them. David.

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Today in Dublin, Ireland and Scotland will play for the Siobhan Cattigan Trophy. This occasion, this recognition of what Siobhan contributed to Scottish rugby means a great deal to her family, writes @DavidWalshST

Column 🔽 https://t.co/pdu3WPpR45

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One thing LIV Golf got right? It didn’t treat caddies like ‘rats’

Read @DavidWalshST's column below ⬇️

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Carl Hayman on life with dementia: Success now is doing one job in a day

Once rugby’s greatest tight-head prop, the former All Black shares his experience living with the symptoms of brain injury for more than a decade

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Ipswich’s Premier League promotion is a triumph of old-fashioned values

Sir Bobby Robson has long gone but in Kieran McKenna the Suffolk club have a visionary manager whose loyalty and self-restraint are a throwback to bygone era

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Two best friends, two suicides. How did rugby let this happen?

Shane Christie’s former partner Holly Parkes relives harrowing decline that led to his death, which eerily echoed that of team-mate Billy Guyton two years earlier

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@DavidWalshST
Powerful podcast with Holly Parkes🥲
#shanechristie

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"Imagine if you’d been at the game and someone had told you three of the players would be dead within nine years. All from the same team. Impossible, you would have said"

Two best friends, two suicides. How did rugby let this happen?

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@ewenmurray77 Much appreciated Ewen.

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🚴 Paris-Roubaix is a risk for Tadej Pogacar and we love him for taking it on

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"A friend remarked on the sadness of a sporting icon dragged so low. It isn’t just sad. It's bad"

@DavidWalshST says fans are always eager to forgive Tiger Woods, but another car crash reveals an alarming spiral for a man who remains a hero to many ⬇️
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QUESTION OF SPORT
Why do coaches think fly halves should always be the kicker?
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🚓 'Nan got nicked on a regular basis'
⚽ The phone call that led to Spurs departure
🏇 Chance of winning the Gold Cup

🗣️ Harry Redknapp speaks to @DavidWalshST about life and Cheltenham ⬇️

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.@DavidWalshST experiences the passion of the greatest night in Hull KR’s history as young and old weep tears of joy after their team are crowned world champions ⬇️

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Eoin McCarthy’s car went off a bridge during an Irish rally in 2022. The parents of the 22-year-old still have questions about what happened on the day and in the years since.

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'George Ford is the general in Borthwick’s army. Eleven years have passed since he first played for England and though there were times when it seemed he’d nailed it, he never truly had. Not like he has now.'

⬇️ @DavidWalshST on England's fly half

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Wales is a proud rugby nation lost in hurt and confusion. What now?

As Ospreys fans protest amid fears that club will close, former Wales players Alun Wyn Jones and Anthony Buchanan worry for game’s future in principality

By @DavidWalshST ⬇️

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Our heroes’ welfare should matter as much as the pleasure we get from them

Families of Gordon McQueen and Chris Nicholl deserve empathy, not to be told they are ‘whinging’ for raising awareness of the risks of heading the ball

Column by @DavidWalshST ⬇️

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The All Blacks should admit they’re as weak as rest of us. That’s real humility

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.@DavidWalshST talks to Alex Mitchell on how a move to the ‘right’ side of Mersey set his career in motion and never looking back after a surprise late call-up for 2023 World Cup ⬇️

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