Patrick Barclay, Esq

Career: journalist; trainee Evening Telegraph Dundee 1963-64; sub-ed: Evening Express Aberdeen 1965, Scottish Daily Mail 1966, The Sun 1966-67; football reporter and columnist The Guardian 1976-86 (sub-ed 1967-76); football corr: Today 1986, The Independent 1986-90, The Observer 1990-96; football columnist The Sunday Telegraph 1996-2009, chief football corr The Times 2009-11, Evening Standard 2012-; Sports Journalist of the Year British Sports Journalism Awards 1993