noodlehair
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The problem with being a football journo who's prominent on twitter is that you're always going to end up being a knob.
You say one thing and it pisses off one group of people (regardless of whether it's true or not), you say the opposite and it pisses off another group of people. You say nothing and you are pointless, and people wont be shy in letting you know that either...so you are just fighting fires all the time. It must be difficult in the end not to say things JUST to piss certain people off.
I do remember him coming out with some right nonsense about players and their training regimes though. I'm sure this happened more than once. The sort of stuff that even if you worked for the club involved as one of the training staff, still couldn't possibly be based on more than an opinion. Yet he'd present it as if it were fact. Not really a good way to point score in terms of the credibility chart.
Also the idea that any journo is completely reliable is just silly. At best, they get told things by another source. You have a journo telling you "Morata 100% to United" for example, while at the exact same time Morata and United don't even actually know what's going to happen or even what they want to happen.
Transfer muppetry is a mugs game, and I always find it a bit pathetic when you see journos and the like getting shit for being wrong about this or that, or making stuff up. No one is forcing anyone to read anything they write, much less believe it as fact when it's blatantly obvious that it can't be.
You say one thing and it pisses off one group of people (regardless of whether it's true or not), you say the opposite and it pisses off another group of people. You say nothing and you are pointless, and people wont be shy in letting you know that either...so you are just fighting fires all the time. It must be difficult in the end not to say things JUST to piss certain people off.
I do remember him coming out with some right nonsense about players and their training regimes though. I'm sure this happened more than once. The sort of stuff that even if you worked for the club involved as one of the training staff, still couldn't possibly be based on more than an opinion. Yet he'd present it as if it were fact. Not really a good way to point score in terms of the credibility chart.
Also the idea that any journo is completely reliable is just silly. At best, they get told things by another source. You have a journo telling you "Morata 100% to United" for example, while at the exact same time Morata and United don't even actually know what's going to happen or even what they want to happen.
Transfer muppetry is a mugs game, and I always find it a bit pathetic when you see journos and the like getting shit for being wrong about this or that, or making stuff up. No one is forcing anyone to read anything they write, much less believe it as fact when it's blatantly obvious that it can't be.