My friend and colleague Roy Collins, who has died aged 73, was one of the most gifted, and probably the most underrated, of the happy band of Fleet Street sports journalists who travelled the world in the last decades of the 20th century.
Roy was chief sports writer of the start-up mid-market tabloid Today throughout its near-decade of existence (1986 to 1995). Today was a pioneer of new production methods but struggled for profile in a crowded market, so too few people appreciated his sharp eye, fluent and witty style and wide sporting knowledge.
