Martin Johnson

Martin Johnson may refer to:

See also

Martin Johnson (rugby union)

Martin Osborne Johnson CBE (born 9 March 1970) is an English former rugby union player who represented and captained England and Leicester. He is best known for captaining England to victory in the 2003 Rugby World Cup. He is regarded as one of the greatest locks ever to have played. He toured three times with the British and Irish Lions, becoming the only man to have captained them on two separate tours. He also led his club Leicester Tigers to consecutive Heineken Cup victories and won the league six times.

He became the new England team manager on 1 July 2008, replacing the previous manager Brian Ashton. Despite no coaching experience, he was appointed team manager of the national England rugby union side in April 2008, but left the post in November 2011 following England's disappointing performance and lack of discipline at the 2011 Rugby World Cup.

Early life

Johnson was born in Shirley, Solihull and lived on Solihull Road where he attended Blossomfield infant school in the West Midlands, the second of three brothers – his younger brother Will is a former back row forward. At the age of seven, his family moved to Market Harborough, Leicestershire, where Martin attended Ridgeway Primary School, Welland Park School and Robert Smyth School.

List of Hollyoaks characters (2011)

The following is a list of characters who first appeared or are due to appear in the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks during 2011, they are listed in order of their first appearance. In January 2011, it was announced that Gareth Philips would be taking over the role of series producer from Paul Marquess, who had been with the show for one year.

Ruby Button

Ruby Button, played by Anna Shaffer, is the younger sister of Duncan Button (Dean Aspen). She made her first on-screen appearance on 3 January 2011. In December 2010, the Liverpool Echo announced that eighteen-year-old Shaffer would be joining the cast as Ruby. They said the character "will cause mayhem at the expense of her brother". Ruby has been described as "sneaky". Shaffer also announced her character during the Hollyoaks Christmas Music Show in 2010. Jaci Stephen writing for the Daily Mail said that Ruby obtaining drugs was the serial's latest in their drug obsession and said it was boring. In a poll run by Inside Soap to see which Hollyoaks character out of Ruby, Leanne Holiday (Jessica Forrest), Rae Wilson (Alice Barlow) and Theresa McQueen (Jorgie Porter) readers most wanted Silas Blissett to kill off next. Ruby came in second place with 21% of the vote.