I'm a career journalist who spent 30 years as a staff writer, executive sub-editor and columnist with a number of British tabloids including the Daily Express, Daily Star and Daily Mirror. Most of that time was spent in the sports department and, indeed, I am still contracted to The People as a sports sub and page editor. During my career in Fleet Street and later in Manchester, I covered top-class soccer for many years before becoming an official Rugby Union correspondent of The Sun, for whom I reported on dozens of (then) Five Nations Championship games throughout Europe. A woman in a man's world? Now that's another story!