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William John Camkin, MA (23 June 1922 – 19 June 1998) was a journalist, football, business and sports administrator. Camkin was born in Kings Norton, Worcestershire, the son of Bill Camkin and Helena Ethel Holder. His father was managing director of Birmingham City F.C., and also owned a number of billiard and snooker halls in Birmingham. He had introduced a snooker championship which became ‘The Embassy Cup’ between 1936 and 1956. Educated at Warwick School and St Edmund Hall Oxford, where he captained the college football first XI,〔Article in ''TV Times'', by Victor Edwards, 'The Voice behind the Vision' Match of the Week', 13 December 1963 ()〕 In 1942, he served with the University Air Squadron, and later the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve as a navigator with Bomber Command.〔Flight Officer (War Subs.): SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 23 NOVEMBER, 1945 http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/37362/supplements/5704/page.pdf〕 ==Career as journalist and sports commentator== Demobbed in 1946, he resumed his journalistic career (he had worked on a local paper before going up to Oxford) as a sports writer on the ''Birmingham Gazette''. He commentated for BBC Radio for seven years, covering the 1954, 1958, and 1962 World Cups. He wrote a book about the 1958 tournament. ITV had won the rights to cover the 1966 FIFA World Cup in competition with the BBC; and John Camkin was part of the team including Hugh Johns, Gerry Loftus, and Barry Davies. 〔(WSC 'When Saturday Comes', article, 'Net Workers' October 2002 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Camkin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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