Martin Samuel (born 25 July 1964) is an English
sports columnist
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for
News UK
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and has previously worked for the ''
Daily Mail
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,
The Times
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,
News of the World
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,
GQ, The Tortoise,
Jewish Chronicle
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The newspaper is published every Fri ...
,
Daily Express
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,
The Sun
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'' and ''
Sunday People
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At one point owned by Odhams Press, The ''People'' was acquired along with Odhams by the Mirror Group in 1961, along with the '' ...
''. Samuel was an occasional guest on the ''
Sunday Supplement'' television show.
Career
Samuel began his career at
Hayters' news agency in London and has written for several national newspapers in the UK before he settled initially at ''The Times'',
where he was named Sports Writer of the Year at the British Press Awards in 2007, and Sports Journalist of the Year at the British Sports Journalism Awards in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Samuel was also Sports Journalist of the Year at the 'What The Papers Say' awards in 2002, 2005 and 2006.
He moved to the ''Daily Mail'' in 2008, replacing the paper's sports columnist,
Paul Hayward, who was returning to ''The Guardian''.
During his time at the ''Daily Mail'', Samuel was again named Sports Journalist of the Year at the British Sports Journalism Awards in 2010 and 2013, Sports Writer of the Year at the British Press Awards in 2013, and Sports Commentator of the Year at the Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards in 2014. In 2012, Samuel was named top in a UK Press Gazette poll of Britain's best sports journalists.
[In 2012 Samuel was named top in a UK Press Gazette poll of Britain's best sports journalists.] In January 2015, he was named in Debrett's List of the 500 Most Influential People in Britain. In January 2023, Samuel joined
News UK
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writing for ''
The Times
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'' and ''
Sunday Times
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''.
Samuel ghostwrote
Harry Redknapp
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's autobiography, ''Always Managing'', published in 2013
and its follow-up, 'A Man Walks On To A Pitch', published a year later. He also wrote a book with Malcolm Macdonald, "How To Score Goals", published in 1985.
Awards
*Sports Writer of the Year, ''What the Papers Say'' awards (2002)
*Sports Writer of the Year, Football Supporters' Federation, 2003
*Sports Writer of the Year, ''What the Papers Say'' awards (2005)
*Sports Writer of the Year, ''What the Papers Say'' awards (2006)
*Sports Journalist of the Year, Sports Journalists' Association of Great Britain, 2010
*Sports Journalist of the Year, Sports Journalists' Association of Great Britain, 2013
*Sports Journalist of the Year, British Press Awards (2008)
References
External links
Martin Samuel - The Times
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Living people
English sportswriters
Jewish English writers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Daily Mail journalists
1964 births
Association football journalists