Billy Pinnell
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Billy Pinnell (aka "The Traveller") (died 1977) was the sports editor of the Bristol Evening Post from the first day of publication in April 1932 until his retirement 34 years later on 31 December 1956.
Career
During his
football matches. As over 600 of them were away from home, he lived up to his pen name
of "The Traveller."
He started with the Evening Post.
Billy Pinnell's record of service to local
soccer began in 1909 when he first became a member of the Gloucestershire Football Association Council
.
In 1959 he was awarded his most prized possession, the Football Association Medal for his 50 years' work for the GFA, of which he was a life vice-president.
As a sportsman himself, Billy played football and
cyclist
. He later served on many sporting committees.