Not retiring as such stepping down as Cheif Footy writer for the HUN but he will still be a "contributor" and the Top 50 will remain
From the HUN:
Mike Sheahan steps down as chief football writer for the Herald Sun
From: Herald Sun November 29, 2011 9:24AM
MIKE Sheahan is stepping down as chief football writer for the Herald Sun after 18 years.
Sheahan, 64, said yesterday he cherished his time at Australia’s biggest daily newspaper.
“I have been exceedingly lucky to have spent more than 40 years on Melbourne metropolitan papers covering the game I love,” he said yesterday.
The multi-award-winning journalist will maintain a close relationship with the Herald Sun as a contributor to the sports pages next year.
Readers can still look forward to Sheahan’s popular Top 50 AFL player lists next season.
HWT editor-in-chief Phil Gardner said Sheahan was the complete journalist.
“Mike is one of Australia’s greatest sport journalists,” he said.
“He is a rare combination of a great news breaker who can write clearly-understood analysis that is essential reading for everybody in football.”
Sheahan took over from Alf Brown as chief football writer of the Herald in 1979.
He left to work at the AFL in 1985 and was at the Sunday Age from 1989-93 before returning to the Herald Sun.
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