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Covering Pooler was a reporter’s nightmare

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BRENDAN GALLAGHER

Apparently the last Saturday night sports paper closed down in Portsmouth last week – the Portsmouth Sports Mail – after 119 years at the sharp end which promptly brought up all sorts of frantic memories filing rugby reports for the South Wales Argus and the Sport Echo in the mid- 1980s. Not all of them good.
Writing for a Saturday evening sports special – apink un, green un or whatever they were known as locally – was both terrifying and electrifying and for my generation anyway a...

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