The Sports Argus was a Saturday sports paper

Saturday sports paper

The Saturday sports paper is a generic name for a series of local newspapers published in the UK on a Saturday evening containing information about sports matches played on that day. Throughout most of the twentieth century they were very popular, representing one of the few up to date sources of...

 printed on distinctive pink paper and published in Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

, England

England

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 between 1897 and 2006.

The first edition was published on 6 February 1897 and was for many years the largest-selling sports newspaper in Britain with between 32 and 40 pages. Its final edition as a standalone newspaper was published on 13 May 2006. Although its circulation in 2005 averaged 10,000, it was losing nearly £100,000 a year, in part due to the move away from football matches being played at 3pm on Saturdays.

The title survives as the name of the 16 page pull out sport sections in the Saturday and Monday editions of the Birmingham Mail

Birmingham Mail

The Birmingham Mail is a tabloid newspaper based in Birmingham, UK but distributed around Birmingham, The Black Country, Solihull, Warwickshire and parts of Worcestershire and Staffordshire. The newspaper, which was re-branded from the Birmingham Evening Mail in October 2005, is one of the biggest...

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