- Writer covered 10 World Cups for the Guardian over 50 years
- ‘Giant of journalism’ whose byline was a watermark of quality
David Lacey, the Guardian football correspondent whose impeccable judgment and unerring ability to turn match reports into an art form made him a titan of the press box, has died at the age of 83.
A fixture in the pages of the Guardian across five decades, Lacey wrote his first match report for the paper in November 1964, covered 10 World Cups, retired as football correspondent after 30 years in 2002 and continued writing on football on these pages until 2013.
