Malcolm Brodie, the renowned football writer who covered Northern Ireland at three World Cups, has died at the age of 86. Photograph: William Cherry/presseye.com
Veteran Belfast-based awarding winning sports journalist Malcolm Brodie, who covered every World Cup since 1954, has died at the age of 86.
The Scots-born football writer received a string of plaudits from Fifa as well as an MBE for his services to the game for six decades.
Brodie was the author of an acclaimed book on the now defunct Belfast Celtic and was a respected football commentator on the international scene.
Jim Gracey, the Belfast Telegraph Group's sports editor, where Brodie worked from after the second world war, said: "He was a wonderful man and a wonderful journalist who must have taught generations of sports reporters, myself included.
"He had a contacts book like no other. Everybody in soccer ? from Pele to Sir Alex Ferguson ? knew him. The man was beyond a legend."
Brodie was also a regular sports broadcaster and became a household name during Northern Ireland's travels to the World Cup, first in 1958 and later in Spain in 1982 and Mexico four years later.
On duty in Mexico, Brodie was reported to have filed his opening sentence of the Northern Ireland v Brazil game, which the South Americans won 4-0, by repeating the words "Magnifico, Magnifico, Magnifco" in praise of the Brazilians performance against his adopted country.
The typist taking down his copy from a crackling phone line in Mexico was reported to have shouted back to Brodie: "It's OK Malcolm, I head the word 'Magnifico' the first time you said it."
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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jan/30/malcolm-brodie-sports-journalist-dies-86
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