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Brian Glanville was a football writer of unique stature and a figure of extraordinary industry

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Brian Glanville was a football writer of unique stature and a figure of extraordinary industry in papers and publishing for nearly seven decades .

For 33 years he was the football correspondent of the Sunday Times , with whom he continued to work until he was 88 .

He produced thousands of match reports and features and was a pioneer in giving greater coverage to the international game.

Aside from being a football journalist he was also a short-story writer, playwright, novelist, scriptwriter, literary adviser and raconteur.

Brian Lester Glanville , football writer and novelist, born 24 September 1931 ; died 16 May 2025 .

By the age of 30 he had had six novels published, often with Italian or Jewish backgrounds.

He also wrote the screen play for Goal!, the Bafta award-winning official film of the 1966 World Cup , and scripted European Centre-Forward .

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