The Times and Sunday Times swept to five titles at last night's @SportSJA awards, with the Sunday Times retaining the crown as Newspaper of the Year. The honours list also included five silver and two bronze awards
Congratulations to all our winners:
🥇Sunday Times (Newspaper of the Year);🥈The Times
🥇Jonathan Northcroft (Football Journalist)
🥇Mike Atherton (Cricket Journalist); 🥈Simon Wilde
🥇Martyn Ziegler (News Reporter); 🥈Matt Lawton
🥇Hamzah Khalique-Loonat (Data Journalist)
🥈David Walsh (Feature Writer long form)
🥈Tom Kershaw (Specialist Correspondent)
🥉Alex Lowe (Rugby Journalist)
🥉Owen Slot (Columnist)
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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?
✍️ @DavidWalshST
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It’s surreal to be a sports writer in @thetimes . I’m very grateful to Mike Atherton and Nick Randall for the opportunity!
This column is for anyone who has dreamt of summer in musty warehouses, Portakabins or indoor halls during an English winter.
Incredibly proud of our team at @TimesSport for their 19 nominations at the @SportSJA British Sports Journalism Awards. Always a joy to see their hard work recognised.
Shortlist here: https://t.co/rwlGNeYgcK
can't help but feel this is something he's needed for a while... always suspected the Norwich job weighed heavily given its emotional significance and maybe he felt he couldn't step away while with us, but am glad he feels able to do so now and am wishing him and his family well
Men’s First Team Head Coach Liam Manning has been granted compassionate leave for the remainder of the 2025/26 Sky Bet League One season.
Liam has the full support of everyone at Huddersfield Town, and we will remain in regular contact with him and those close to him.
#htafc
🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea are considering a blockbuster move to sign Khadija “Bunny” Shaw on a free transfer from Manchester City
Full story by @Kit_Shepard ⬇️
https://t.co/j6m8VLHSnJ
Ramadan boos made my heart sink — this country isn't as tolerant as we think
@HKhaliqueLoonat writes that hearing "emboldened" Leeds fans react to a planned stoppage was a sad reminder of what Muslim players face 🔽
https://t.co/VRCcO1SRWz
3 - Mohamed Touré is the first player to score a hat-trick on his first start in England's top four tiers since Jesse Lingard in September 2013. Strewth.
Once the ‘slowest striker in all of Europe’, the Championship’s most successful manager Daniel Farke is finally finding success in the Premier League with Leeds
✍️ @JNorthcroft 👇
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