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THE sports writer. Brilliant on football and boxing. I know a couple of Observer sports journos - apparently the Sunday Times poached him with an offer of huge money, although he succumbed only after his editor and great friend Donald Trelford retired.
“We should have known that Muhammad Ali would not settle for any ordinary resurrection. His had to have an additional flourish. So, having rolled away the rock, he hit George Foreman on the head with it.”