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News and selected assignments - 2006
December 2006
Stuart Barnes and Zara Phillips
Picture courtesy Sports Journalists' Association
Picture courtesy of Kraken Opus
Stuart Barnes joins Sportswoman of the Year, Zara Phillips, at the 2006 SJA Sports Awards at The Brewery where he earlier presented the J.L.Manning trophy to racehorse trainer, Martin Pipe, for his outstanding contribution to sport.
Sam Wallace starts work with Peter Crouch on one of the leading football autobiographies planned for 2007.
Kraken's Manchester United Opus - written by DWM writers, Jim White, James Lawton, Jonathan Northcroft, Patrick Barclay and Hugh McIlvanney, is unveiled at Old Trafford (below right) by Sir Bobby Charlton and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, and subsequently meets with huge international acclaim.
November 2006
Elena Baltacha successfully returns from an enforced lay-off for Scotland against England in the annual Aberdeen Cup tennis tournament (right), winning both her singles and doubles matches.
Mihir Bose and Sue Mott host all-day Regional Summits on the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games at Knebworth House and the University of Essex respectively.
October 2006
Picture courtesy of Octagon
Tom Watt and David Conn join regular panellist Will Buckley when making their first appearances on
Fighting Talk.
Mihir Bose recalls the sporting headlines for Shine Television in their programme on the 80s for Channel 5.
Sue Mott features on high-profile panel at Lord's (right)
to discuss Women in Sport before an audience made up of major sporting sponsors and officials.
September 2006
Jim White (left) hosts the half-time debate during
Celtic's memorable win over Benfica.
Picture courtesy of STV
Jim White hosts TV coverage of Celtic's Champions' League campaign for STV.
Tom Watt provides a moving account of life on the North Bank for Kraken's Arsenal/Highbury Opus being written by Sue Mott, Alan Smith and David Miller with contributions from Patrick Barclay on Arsene Wenger and
George Graham. To be published in 2007.
August 2006
James Lawton is chosen to work with Sir Bobby Charlton on his eagerly awaited Headline autobiography (in two parts) in preference to a host of would-be ghost writers.
Mihir Bose and Patrick Barclay feature as part of Sky’s Sport Matters series.
June - July 2006
Sue Mott presents the domestic view from Wimbledon as part of ESPN's daily US TV coverage of the championships (for the second year running).
June 2006
Jim Lawton, Jim White and Patrick Barclay preview the new Premiership season for Sky
from the World Cup.
Jim White follows up his earlier programme on Jose Mourinho with an hour-long Sky TV documentary on England managers including Sven Goran Eriksson.
May 2006
The Final Salute from Highbury: presented by Tom Watt
in the company of Ian Wright and Henry Cooper.
Pictures courtesy of Arsenal Football Club.
Patrick Barclay, provides voice-over for Sky’s six-part series on the World Cup, with world-wide distribution, and also features in 'World Cup Heaven and Hell', ITV's special five-programme build-up to the tournament.
Giles Long (multi gold-medal winning paralympian) joins Sue Mott for an after-dinner interview to entertain Lloyds representatives in London.
Tom Watt hosts the Final Salute celebrations on behalf of Arsenal on an emotional last day at Highbury, having previewed the occasion in a feature for the Express in the morning. Later in the month he hosts a box for sponsors, Wickes, at the play-off finals in Cardiff.
April 2006
Tom Watt reviews Alf Ramsey's biography for the Mail on Sunday.
Martin Johnson signs as a columnist for newly launched Swing (golf) magazine (pictured right).
David Conn follows up his Guardian article on Derby County FC for East Midlands TV.
March 2006
Picture courtesy Sunday Express Magazine
Tom Watt becomes a regular weekly columnist for the newly-launched Sportsman newspaper and, before it is re-positioned - six months later as a racing paper - goes on to interview some of the biggest names in football.
David Conn hosts a major Institute of Directors conference in Manchester.
Lucinda Green writes of her return visit (right) to the Sunday Express Magazine, 25 years after enjoying a 'make over' in their launch issue.
February 2006
How David Welch opened the campaign in favour of
London bidding for the 2012 Olympics in the
Daily Telegraph in November, 2002.
James Lawton is named as sports columnist of the year in the 2005 Sports Journalism Awards.
Paul Kimmage is sports interviewer of the year with Sue Mott highly commended and Jonathan Northcroft and David Walsh both short-listed.
David Welch is awarded the Doug Gardner Trophy for his contribution to sports journalism and for his role in persuading the Government to support the London 2012 Olympic bid in 2002.
David Conn is short-listed for Sports News
Reporter of the year.
January 2006
David Welch joins Kraken Sports and Media as editorial consultant.
Jim White and David Conn offer their views in TV special on the FA scandal concerning Faria Alam.
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