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Sports Ed­i­tor

As Guardian Me­dia cel­e­brates 108 years to­day, I find my­self re­flect­ing on my own jour­ney—27 years, to be ex­act—since I first walked through those tow­er­ing wood and glass doors on the ground floor, wide-eyed and ea­ger, to be­gin my stint as a free­lance sports writer un­der the guid­ance of the leg­endary Valenti­no “Tino” Singh, then Sports Ed­i­tor, now re­tired.

For three years, I worked as a free­lancer, typ­ing away late in­to the night and ar­riv­ing at the of­fice be­fore 9 am each day to get my copy of the news­pa­pers to cut out my sto­ries each morn­ing like it was a per­son­al scrap­book of sur­vival.