Journalist, radio mush, PR luvvie, cynic, grumbler. Family, footie, comedy, life. Pompey boy now living in Somerset. Opinions my own, not those of my employer.

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Golf, sport and travel writer. Columnist, broadcaster and tyres changed while you wait.

What was your first job as a journalist?

Submitting sports reports for a local free-sheet when I was just 16. Two years later I was writing an entire World Cup supplement.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

PSmith

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

By email. Times have changed and everything now needs to stand up commercially too ...