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Scott Murray

British journalist and author

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Scott Murray was a journalist.

Scott Murray is a British freelance journalist specialising in sport and working predominantly for The Guardian.

Books Murray is the author of two sports-related books. He is the co-author, with Simon Farnaby, of The Phantom of the Open, the biography of Maurice Flitcroft, the so-called world's worst golfer. The book was published by Penguin in 2011 and turned into a film of the same name starring Sir Mark Rylance as Flitcroft. His second book, The Title: The Story of the First Division was published by Bloomsbury Sport in 2017.

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· Wikipedia: Scott Murray

· Wikidata: Q128693342

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