Martin Samuel (born 25 July 1964) is an English sports columnist for News UK and has previously worked for the Daily Mail, The Times, News of the World, GQ, The Tortoise, Jewish Chronicle, Daily Express, The Sun and Sunday People.
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,[1] 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.
[2] He moved to the Daily Mail in 2008,[3] replacing the paper's sports columnist, Paul Hayward, who was returning to The Guardian.
In 2012, Samuel was named top in a UK Press Gazette poll of Britain's best sports journalists.
He also wrote a book with Malcolm Macdonald, "How To Score Goals", published in 1985.