Laura Woods: ‘Be yourself sounds like a cliche – but you have to do that’

One of sport's most assured radio and television presenter on how finding confidence through hard work changed her career and her biggest broadcasting inspirations

Laura Woods: 'It started with writing match reports at Kingston University for the football and rugby teams'

Laura Woods is just back from Qatar but has somehow managed to fit in a visit to Manchester to interview Kevin De Bruyne, her Christmas shopping and a trip to collect her dog from the dog sitters (although, she says, it was more of a training camp because Lulu can be a little bit badly behaved at times).

It has been a whirlwind month for the 35-year-old presenter, who covered the World Cup on ITV with pundits such as Gary Neville and Roy Keane, an experience she says was a coming of age.