J._L._Manning

James Lionel Manning (10 January 1914 – 18 January 1974) was a British sports columnist for the Daily Mail. Born in Bristol, then in the County of Gloucestershire, in 1914, Manning was the eldest son of sports writer Lionel Victor Manning, and the elder half-brother of Brian Stuart Manning (1927–2004) a leading British Marxist historian.
He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1974 New Year Honours.