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Article: Being Eddie Waring by Tony Hannan
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 27, 2008
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Admired ambassador for rugby league or prat in a hat? Few sports
commentators have polarised opinion as starkly as Eddie Waring did
during his 45 years of broadcasting for the BBC, and while Tony
Hannan airs the case against him fairly, he is firmly in the pro-
Waring camp, arguing that his mainly northern critics did not
appreciate his remit to popularise the game to the country as a
whole. Hannan's impressively researched biography paints a picture
of a complex man, who began as a go-ahead, innovative ...
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