No making tea for this new boy! Chris's first task is to ghostwrite the Fabrice Muamba story
As first assignments go, it wasn't a bad one. Sports journalist Chris Brereton, newly recruited by publishers Trinity Mirror Sports Media and still readjusting to life back in the UK after a year in Thailand, was asked if he fancied ghosting an autobiography. He had never written a book before but when he learned that the subject was footballer Fabrice Muamba, there was only going to be one answer. The schedule set out was almost impossible -- it was already August and the book was due in the shops in early November -- yet the Muamba story, of the young Bolton Wanderers player who collapsed on the field during a match at Tottenham Hotspur and was effectively brought back from the dead, was too good to turn down. "From a journalist's point of view it has been the story of 2012," Brereton said. "I had been working on the Bangkok Post but the impact of Fabrice's story was just as big over there. "The English Premier League is massive in Thaila