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Hugh McIlvanney has died

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    Joe_ Public
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    Boxing is lucky it had so many literary heavyweights as chroniclers and McIlvanney was definitely one of the champions. Always remember his “Last Fight of Johnny Owens” piece but there are so many classics. Rip.


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    ebbsy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,750 ✭✭✭ebbsy


    Oh ****.

    He was bloody good.


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    megadodge
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    I've read a lot of his stuff over the years and he was my favourite boxing scribe.

    His writing was so good, I'd even read pieces he wrote in papers about soccer - and that takes some doing.

    RIP


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    SHOVELLER
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    One of the greats of boxing. RIP Hugh

    Just read the Johnny Owen piece and it is devastatingly beautiful and harrowing at the same time.

    The obit in the guardian is top class like the man himself:

    https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/jan/25/hugh-mcilvanney-obituary


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    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    What’s also worth remembering is that a lot of McIlvanney pieces, including his very best, were rattled off to deadline, often by phone to a copy taker in London, after fights had ended. Other scribes could only look on and weep at such uncommon brilliance under pressure. Loved him on racing too.


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