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Owen Slot

British sports journalist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ112842978 ↗
Source-derived summary

Owen Slot (born 1967) is a British author and journalist. He is chief sports writer of The Times and Sunday Times.

Slot was educated at Bradfield College before going up to Durham University. He joined The Times as a sports writer in 2002, becoming its chief rugby correspondent in 2014.

In addition to his other books, Slot was ghostwriter for Jonny, the autobiography of Jonny Wilkinson.

Bibliography

Slot, Owen (2004). The Finishing Line. Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 0340824638.

——— (2005).

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“Owen Slot” enters the record as british sports journalist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Owen, Slot and British can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967, 2002, 2014, 2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Owen, Slot and British.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q112842978. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1967, 2002, 2014 and 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “Owen Slot” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.