Can I carry your bags?

By Martin Johnson

Subjects: Sportswriters, Sports, great britain, Anecdotes, Travel, Journalists

Description: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: SPORT. In nearly 25 years as a sports journalist for the Independent, Daily Telegraph, and The Sunday Times, Martin Johnson has covered sporting events all over the world, including cricket and tennis in Australia, golf in America, Formula One in Kuala Lumpur, boxing in Cairo, petanque in Gran Canaria, beach volleyball in Brazil, Olympics in Sydney, football in China, and rugby in South Africa. Sounds like a nice job? You must be joking. Get the true story from sports journalism's equivalent of Victor Meldrew.