Peter Jackson - former City writer at the Echo.

[the other bob wilson]

Thanks for this. It is a really interesting post (my Dad was Circulation Manager at The Echo at around the same time).

I vaguely remember Jackson and Woodward being football men and covering City with some enthusiasm along with Joe Lovejoy but he might have been much later.

My Dad had ZERO time for egg-only journos nor the embarrassing bias that a lot of the local press showed towards eggby.

Thanks again

I agree it was an interesting post and the bit about JBG Thomas especially so because of the fact that he was the reporter for the City’s Cup Winners Cup game in Larnaca in late September 1970 - Peter Jackson clearly didn’t go to the match, neither did the Western Mail’s City reporter, Clive Phillips, yet that paper saw fit to send the “doyen” of rugby reporters to Cyprus for a game in early autumn! Maybe I’m adding two and two and making five, but JBG’s report did refer to 80 degree temperatures!