The Sportsman (newspaper)

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The Sportsman was the title of two separate British newspapers which are now defunct. The first Sportsman paper ran from 1865 to 1924. A separate and totally unrelated Sportsman title appeared for seven months in 2006.

1 1865 to 1924 version
2 2006 version
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] 1865 to 1924 version

The first British newspaper entitled The Sportsman began publishing from 1865, some six years after the Sporting Life. It ran until 1924.

It was at the offices of The Sportsman on 20 July 1871 that the Football Association committee meeting was held which adopted a proposal to establish a knockout competition for the FA's member clubs – the FA Cup.

[edit] 2006 version

Launched on March 22, 2006, The Sportsman was the UK's first new national daily newspaper for 20 years, and claimed to be a one-stop shop for the modern punter, offering news, views and tips on sport, racing and anything else bookmakers give odds on. The paper had been the brainchild of editor-in-chief Charlie Methven. Sales reached 22,333 in May 2006 some way short of its target break-even figure of 40,000.

Just seven months after launch, an announcement was made that after suffering a failure in a refinancing bid, it had been decided to stop printing The Sportsman. The last edition appeared on October 5, 2006. The publisher had been in administration since July.