About Bruce Pope (0)
- 17 Jul 07, 11:55 AM
There are few better places than Wales to live and work if you love your sport - even if you happen to be an Englishman - so it's been a happy six years since they let me in the front door here in Cardiff.
I'm Devon-born and Dorset-raised but it wasn't till I ended up in Swansea at the end of my studies that I had a top-flight rugby team to support, just as the in the 90s.
Regional rugby and the amalgamation with Neath means the have inherited my loyalty.
I got my first taste of journalism during an exchange year in the USA, as a tennis reporter for the . After graduating and a year back-packing in Africa I started freelancing in London, working as a sports sub-editor for the likes of the and the .
It's always a hard task to put aside being an over-excited fan (and put down the beer glass) during big tournaments and take on the role of impartial ±«Óãtv journalist, plus a Welsh girlfriend and an Irish mother mean I've got my feet in a few camps.
Bruce Pope is a ±«Óãtv Sport journalist based in Wales.
