Welcome to the Jungle!

I did start blogging about a year ago, until some funny soul decided to use the info on my blog against me.

Aware of the risks of posting intimate details about my life, I am back (bigger - certainly, better - maybe).

Sports journalism is entering such an uncertain phase. My love of sport has afraid got the better of me. I believe I'm a good writer and sporting enthuasist, that working as a sports journalist is the ideal job for me. But it certainly has its limitations.

And since graduating from the University of Central Lancashire with a degree in sports journalism in May, I'm one of the lucky ones.

I've been fortunate enough to have casual shifts on the Daily Star sports desk and also work for the Daily Star Sunday and Sunday Express at games on a Saturday.

Working primarily a Thursday-Sunday working week means pretty much zero social life and a very slow early part to the week when not much is happening.

Whilst the pay of a freelance is pretty good, my future is far from certain. Shifts can be cut or even cancelled all together. That's why it is so important to stay ahead of the game and look for as many opportunities as possible.

I certainly cannot see into the future but it appears as if the number of sports journalism students are increasing, yet the number of sports journalism jobs are decreasing. Work that one out.

Gavin Strachan, the Notts County midfielder, has started his blog on the BBC. Strachan is studying to be a sports journalist at Stafford University. Strachan will be fine - he's a footballer - and the likes of Sky Sports love footballers of all sorts of abilities. But I can't help but feel his course mates will suffer due to the ex-footballer surge. What opportunities exist for non-ex-pro-footballers-turned-journalists? Sadly not many.

I believe just five out of 40 people, who completed the same Sports Journalism course as me in May, have secured full time or near full time work in the industry.

Extremely sad that many good people are missing out on jobs. And further belief that the industry is so competitive.

Students of sports journalism really have to be something special judging by my statistic. They have to have done far more than just a course and really know everything inside out.

I don't fancy the chances of "Will" who posted on Strachan's blog: "im interested in football journalism, so how would i go about getting involved?". If you don't know by now, I'm afraid there is not much hope for you.