Four Points For Award-Winning Sports Writer Martin Samuel

Sports journalist Martin Samuel has been fined and given penalty points for breaking the 20mph Tower Bridge speed limit in his Land Rover.

The 58 year-old Essex-based award-winning reporter appeared at Bromley Magistrates Court, where he admitted the offence.

He began his career with freelance sports agency Hayters and has referred to “cold, wet Tuesday nights at Selhurst Park,” early in his career before breaking into Fleet Street with The Times; News of the World; Daily Express; The Sun; Sunday People and Daily Mail, where he is currently a columnist.

Samuel, who lives in the five-bedroom, £3m Maple House, Oaklands, Warren Hill, Loughton was fined £1,000, with £100 costs and was ordered to pay a £90 victim surcharge.

He admitted a charge of speeding in the northbound carriageway of Tower Bridge on November 28, last year in his black 2.0 litre Land Rover.

The court also endorsed his driving license with four penalty points.

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 secured a hat-trick of Sports Journalist of the Year gongs at the 'What The Papers Say' awards in 2002; 2005 and 2006.

While at the Daily Mail he secored more industry awards in 2010 and 2013 and in 2015 he was named in Debrett's List of the 500 Most Influential People in Britain.