Tributes pour in after beloved journalist Patrick Barclay dies: ‘A wonderful football writer’ - Barclay established himself as one of the UK’s great football writers over a career that included stints with the Independent,

The Premier League is greatly saddened to hear of the passing of the football writer Patrick Barclay. Patrick was one of the doyens of football journalism in the UK, writing on the Premier League from its inception in 1992 for The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph and The Times.

Patrick Barclay, who was a written and broadcast journalist and a regular on Sky Sports' Sunday Supplement, has died at the age of 77, the Football Writers' Association has announced

The Football Writers' Association announced that Barclay had died at the age of 77. The journalist was also a familiar face on Sky Sports' football coverage

The Football Writers’ Association announced that sportswriter and Sky Sports Sunday Supplement mainstay Patrick Barclay has died at the age of 77

Tributes have poured in for Patrick Barclay, a “giant” of sports journalism and the hugely respected former football correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph, who has died at the age of 77.