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April 9, 2010

Former Sporting Life editor Graham Taylor has died aged 80

By Dominic wireposts

Graham Taylor, who spent 40 years at The Sporting Life finishing as editor for 13 months in 1985-86, has died aged 80.

Gentleman Ranters today carries an obituary written by Taylor’s former deputy on the now defunct daily horseracing paper Jeremy Chapman.

Chapman writes: “One of the people he helped was John McCririck in his days as an award-winning investigative journalist. ‘Big Mac’ often used to have trouble writing intros but Graham would always come up with a good one and get the piece started.”


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