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Football Writers Association
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The decision to form the FWA was made by four journalists on board a ship in the middle of the English Channel on September 22 1947.
The four were returning from Brussels, where they had seen England beat Belgium 5-2 in a friendly international, and are listed as Messrs Coles, Roy Peskett, Archie Quick and Charlie Buchan. The latter was the most famous of the four, having been an England international before becoming a successful journalist and founding the legendary Charlie Buchan's Football Monthly.
Within a month they had formalised some of the rules and regulations for the fledgling association; membership would be by invitation only, to "working journalists who are accredited football correspondents for newspapers and agencies." Headquarters were to be in London, with the initial membership fee set at five guineas for the first year, and two guineas annually thereafter - with an FWA tie included!
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