Sam Wallace (journalist)
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Sam Wallace is a British sports journalist, the Chief Football Writer at the Daily and Sunday Telegraph since 2015. In 2021, he was the recipient of the Scoop of the Year and Football Journalist of the Year at the SJA Awards,{{Cite web|title=The Daily Telegraph is named Sports Newspaper of the Year - again|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2021/03/15/daily-telegraph-named-sports-newspaper-year/amp/|access-date=2021-08-27|website=www.telegraph.co.uk}} as well as the Hugh McIlvanney Sports Journalist of the Year and Sport News Story of the Year at The Press Awards.
{{Cite web|title=Gallery of Winners – Society of Editors|url=https://www.societyofeditors.org/events/national-press-awards-for-2020/gallery-of-winners/|access-date=2021-08-27|language=en-GB}}
Early life and education
From Stevenage, Hertfordshire{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/sam-wallace-in-a-roundabout-way-stevenage-show-the-true-strength-of-the-english-game-1948247.html|title=Sam Wallace: In a roundabout way, Stevenage show the true strength of|date=April 19, 2010|website=The Independent}} Wallace graduated from Robinson College, Cambridge with a degree in English literature.{{Cite web|url=https://readarsenal.com/2015/02/06/an-interview-with-the-independents-chief-football-correspondent-sam-wallace/|title=An Interview with the Independent's Chief Football Correspondent, Sam Wallace|date=February 6, 2015|website=Read Arsenal}} The son of an English teacher at The Barclay School, Stevenage, Wallace was a schoolboy peer of professional golfer Ian Poulter. Poulter wrote in his autobiography No Limits: My autobiography that the pair would play together on the right side of their school football team with Wallace at right back and Poulter at right midfield. Wallace would write match reports of their team's matches, some of which are still on display when Poulter revisited their school in 2013.{{cite tweet|
user=ianjamespoulter|first=Ian |last=Poulter |number = 359730237036187648 |date=2013-07-23 |title=Looked at your School work today from 20+ years ago }}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pB1hBQAAQBAJ&q=Page+21&pg=PT263|title=No Limits: My Autobiography|first=Ian|last=Poulter|date=October 23, 2014|publisher=Quercus|isbn=9781782066903|via=Google Books}} Wallace was a ball boy for the England v Brazil game in March 1990, at Wembley Stadium.{{Cite web|url=http://europeanfootballweekends.blogspot.com/2010/08/sam-wallace-independent.html|title=European Football Weekends: Sam Wallace - The Independent|first=Danny|last=Last|date=August 20, 2010}} England won the game 1–0 with the solitary goal from Gary Lineker.{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/england-v-brazil-how-gary-lineker-beat-the-samba-boys-8480811.html|title=England v Brazil: How Gary Lineker beat the Samba boys|date=February 4, 2013|website=The Independent}}
Career
Wallace earned a place on the Telegraph graduate training scheme in 1999 and apart from six months at the Evening Standard as a news reporter, Wallace stayed at the Daily Telegraph for more than five years. Within that time, he worked as the paper's north-west football reporter, based in Manchester from January 2002.{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/sam-wallace-i-survived-the-hairdryer-but-theres-a-lot-more-to-manchester-united-manager-sir-alex-8608226.html|title=Sam Wallace: I survived the hairdryer, but there's a lot more to|date=May 8, 2013|website=The Independent}} He agreed to join The Independent newspaper in December 2004. Wallace had worked up to become the Chief Football Correspondent for The Independent{{Cite web|url=http://footballwriters.co.uk/features/my-week-sam-wallace/|title=My Week: Sam Wallace | Football Writers' Association|date=23 April 2012 }} by the time he agreed to move back to the Daily Telegraph this time as Chief Football Writer, in the summer of 2015.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sportsjournalists.co.uk/other-bodies/football-writers/wallace-joins-the-telegraph-in-pre-season-transfer/|title=Wallace joins the Telegraph in pre-season transfer|website=Sports Journalists' Association|date=7 August 2015 }} His final articles for The Independent appearing in October 2015.{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/author/sam-wallace|title=Sam Wallace|website=The Independent}} Since returning to The Telegraph, Wallace has also appeared on their Total Football{{Cite web|url=https://www.newsworks.org.uk/news-and-opinion/telegraph-launches-total-football-podcast|title=Telegraph launches Total Football podcast by Lydia O'Neill|website=www.newsworks.org.uk}} and Audio Football Club podcasts.{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2019/05/09/telegraph-audio-football-club-podcastexplaining-spurs-liverpool/amp/|title=Telegraph Audio Football Club podcast: Explaining the Spurs and Liverpool miracles, with Sam Wallace|website=www.telegraph.co.uk}}
Wallace was nominated in the specialist correspondent category at the 2009 British Sports Journalism Awards.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/former-sports-stars-feature-in-sja-award-nominations/|title=Former sports stars feature in SJA award nominations|first=Owen|last=Amos|date=February 25, 2009|website=Press Gazette}} Wallace was nominated for Writer of the year at the 2014 Football Supporters Federation Awards.{{Cite web|url=https://thefsa.org.uk/news/fsf-awards-2014-writer-of-the-year/|title=FSF Awards 2014: Writer of the Year|date=November 21, 2014|website=Football Supporters' Association}} In 2015 he was nominated as Football Writer of the year at the Sports Journalist Awards and in 2016 he was highly commended in the football writer category.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sportsjournalists.co.uk/sja-journalism-awards/2016-british-sports-journalism-awards/|title=2016 BRITISH SPORTS JOURNALISM AWARDS – Sports Journalists' Association}} In 2018{{Cite web|url=https://www.sportsjournalists.co.uk/sja-journalism-awards/2018-british-sports-journalism-awards/|title=2018 British Sports Journalism Awards – Sports Journalists' Association}} and 2019 Wallace was nominated as Football Journalist.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sportsjournalists.co.uk/awards-news/sja-british-sports-journalism-awards-2019-writing-shortlists/|title=SJA British Sports Journalism Awards 2019: writing shortlists – Sports Journalists' Association|date=30 January 2020 }} He received a highly commended recognition in both years.{{Cite web|url=https://www.aipsmedia.com/index.html?page=artdetail&art=25261&Great-Britain-Sports-Journalism-awards-Paul-Hayward-Mark-Thompson-The-Telegraph-Getty-Images-BBC|title=AIPS Media|website=www.aipsmedia.com}} Wallace was nominated again in 2020 and earned the Bronze award.{{Cite web|url=http://keirradnedge.com/2020/02/24/uk-sja-awards/|title=History for Hyde as first woman hailed UK Sports Journalist of the Year | KeirRadnedge.com}} Wallace was shortlisted in the Best Writer category in the 2021 Football Supporters' Association awards.{{cite web | url=https://thefsa.org.uk/news/fsa-awards-2021-shortlists-announced/ | title=FSA Awards 2021 shortlists announced | date=2 November 2021 }}
A regular pundit on Sky Sports programme Sunday Supplement, in May 2020 a private conversation by the pundits over remote record during the COVID-19 pandemic was accidentally broadcast and included a comment by Wallace about why the singer Morrissey had been “basically cancelled”, for which presenter Geoff Shreeves had to apologise.{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/sky-sports-apology-morrissey-comment-sam-wallace-sunday-supplement-a4442741.html|title=Sky Sports apologise after libellous comment about Morrissey is aired|date=May 17, 2020|website=Evening Standard}} Wallace has also appeared as a football pundit on the BBC Sport television{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/26814009|title=MOTD3: Who wins end-of-term awards?|work=BBC Sport |date=March 30, 2014}} and radio,{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03t6hp7|title=BBC Radio 5 live - Football Daily, Liverpool reach Europa League final|website=BBC}} as well as for the official podcast of London-based Premier League football club Crystal Palace F.C.{{Cite web|url=https://eagles.cpfc.co.uk/palace-podcast/|title=Palace Podcast|website=eagles.cpfc.co.uk}}
On 2 March 2021 it was announced that at the Society of Editors’ “The Press Awards” that Wallace was nominated twice, once for The Hugh McIlvanney Award for Sports Journalist of the year, and also for the Sports News Story of the year for his scoop in the Telegraph about ‘Project Big Picture’, designed by some to help the Premier League–Football League gulf.{{Cite web|title=Shortlist – Society of Editors|url=https://www.societyofeditors.org/events/national-press-awards-for-2020/shortlists/|access-date=2021-08-27|language=en-GB}}
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