Ian Tuckey

At The Sun since in May 2000 as a sport sub-editor and reporter. Began as a journalist covering crime, entertainment and then mainly sport for the Woking News & Mail - not least as a supporter of Woking FC.  Interviewed Bobby Charlton and Steve Davis - although not down to any journalistic skill on my part. Moved to The Evening Echo in South Essex - again writing about crime and then sport, yet never a story about crime AND sport... unless any lawyers reading my players ratings judged them criminally inaccurate. Interviewed (an extremely shy) George Best in a nightclub and (an extremely unnerving) former gangster in "Mad" Frankie Fraser, who was a "friend of the Kray twins and jailed for a total of 42 years. That encounter too was in a highly-respectable Essex establishment of the night.  Since joining The Sun have mainly covered football, but also other sports, notably tennis and table tennis, including offbeat features - with "pro pillow fighting" long on my radar but still not written about. Having played my version of football in the last century, I've "played" tennis and table tennis to local league level in more recent decades. Also a Level One table tennis coach and, since you asked, a qualified massage therapist, hypnotherapist and TEFL teacher.