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Work trips as a sports journalist surely beat most UK corporate away days – but they\u2019re not all glitz and glamour! Sidelines spoke to two professionals whose work covering international events has taken them around the world.<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is a work trip to you? Perhaps the four walls of a meeting room followed by the four walls of a budget hotel, maybe a chance to nip out to look at any local sights before slipping back into the office. For most people it\u2019s not hunting down mosquito repellent for Roy Keane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI just remember Volgograd was full of mosquitoes,\u201d admits Sophie Penney, who worked on ITV Sport\u2019s production team during the 2018 men\u2019s football World Cup in Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI had to go to all these Russian pharmacies to try and figure out what the locals used against mosquitoes so that the pundits could actually do their job, and not be commentating and trying to brush away clouds and clouds of them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Penney was part of the team that covered the tournament from Russia and spent weeks living among pundits like Keane, Ian Wright, Ryan Giggs, and Gary Neville (she reflects they could be difficult to keep up with on neighbouring hotel treadmills). As she speaks Russian, part of her job was helping talents navigate the vast country, its stadiums – and the local wildlife. Travelling to cover a sporting event as a journalist, she says, is very different from attending as a fan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI think it’s probably more stressful and a bit less glamorous. You get the glamour of the free food and things like that, but you get the not-glamour of the amount of floors I’ve sat on outside stadiums finishing up work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you’re out and about literally anything can happen and you\u2019ve just got to adapt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The day that sums that up best is one at the Paris Olympics with Reuters, when her plans – and everyone\u2019s – were thrown into chaos by fires on major train lines on the day of the opening ceremony. Her team rushed to the station for a hectic day of coverage, capturing stories like a family travelling through with their young child sleeping on the station floor. It became a hectic night too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs we were wrapping up there, I got rung by my boss and she said, \u2018We’ve got an interview with the president of the Paris Olympics. At 1 a.m. In French. Can you go?\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBear in mind, I\u2019d started work at 7.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s how Penney\u2019s day ended at the opening ceremony, in the same area as Emmanuel Macron and Thomas Bach, waiting until the small hours to interview Tony Estanguet, head of the organising committee for the Games. Chaotic, but she tells Sidelines it was one of her proudest days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat kind of sums it up when you’re out and about because literally anything can happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt really isn\u2019t as glamorous as everyone thinks,\u201d says Polly Starkie, who took on the ultimate \u2018away day\u2019 when she flew to Australia to cover the women\u2019s Ashes at the beginning of 2025. The journalist describes the surreality of flying over the Sydney Opera House as she arrived, but in the same breath tells Sidelines <\/em>that that moment came after a delayed flight, unexpected layover in Germany, and 36 hours in a hastily rebooked middle seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Oscar winner behind sport\u2019s biggest documentaries\u00a0<\/a><\/h2>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLuckily I love logistics and I love planning because this trip would be impossible without it. As a freelancer, I was basically the only journalist on the trip who had to organise everything completely themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Starkie took what she describes as a \u201chuge gamble\u201d in heading out as a freelancer, but ended up reporting for The Telegraph, The Independent, and The Cricketer. Prestigious titles are no protection from travel chaos and eyewateringly late nights, though – she recalls a dodgy Sydney Airbnb she had to cancel last minute (\u201cfor my safety and sanity\u201d), and working at the Sydney Cricket Ground until 1am after Australia officially confirmed their series win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So travelling journalists aren\u2019t always put up in five-star hotels, but putting up with the chaos allows them to witness history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starkie reported on the first women\u2019s test since 1949 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, a stadium she says makes Wembley look \u2018tiny\u2019, but a trip highlight came earlier that day. An Afghanistan Women\u2019s XI played an exhibition match at the nearby Junction Oval, their first competitive game since leaving Afghanistan following the Taliban\u2019s return to power – though they couldn\u2019t play as an official national side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat was such a special moment. A couple of days before the game, we got to meet the players and chat to them and just hear about a tiny fraction of their story. They’ve been through so much trauma and hardship. I think it really put the Ashes into perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor me that was a bigger moment even than seeing the first ball at the MCG.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travel as a sports journalist might not be glamorous, but it certainly brings its benefits. Just remember on your next away day that long after you\u2019re back at the hotel, other weary travellers are still hard at work telling the story to everyone else!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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