Comments on: Football Journalism http://www.acquiweb.com/blog/index.php/2007/12/13/football-journalism/ Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:55:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: JackP http://www.acquiweb.com/blog/index.php/2007/12/13/football-journalism/comment-page-1/#comment-172 JackP Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:53:24 +0000 http://www.acquiweb.com/blog/index.php/2007/12/13/football-journalism/#comment-172 Didn't watch that game in particular, but it generally depends on the journo. I think it was nice for them to make a fuss of Giggs for his 100th league goal (fantastic player over what, about 15 years?) - but making him man of the match for that alone is daft. But then again, frequently MoM awards are chosen by the corporate sponsors, who often know bugger-all about football, and just pick the player who they've heard of. My gripe is with my local paper who seem unable to give Newcastle players scores comparable with Boro and Sunderland - on a given weekend sunderland lost, newcastle & boro won: boro players averaged 7.4, sunderland 6.9, newcastle 6.1... I could understand it a bit more if they were more honest "we expect better quality from newcastle than the other two, so mark them harder" but in practice it means the north east's player of the year award will go to some mackem left-back who wouldn't be fit to lace the boots of the equivalent toon player, simply because the toon are seen to have underperfromed whereas if sunderland finish 17th it's a party. Yes, expectations are different, yes, our players are underperforming. But they're still performing better than that dross served up at the SoS (stadium of shite)... anyway, it's your own fault. you provoked the rant...! Didn’t watch that game in particular, but it generally depends on the journo. I think it was nice for them to make a fuss of Giggs for his 100th league goal (fantastic player over what, about 15 years?) – but making him man of the match for that alone is daft.

But then again, frequently MoM awards are chosen by the corporate sponsors, who often know bugger-all about football, and just pick the player who they’ve heard of.

My gripe is with my local paper who seem unable to give Newcastle players scores comparable with Boro and Sunderland – on a given weekend sunderland lost, newcastle & boro won: boro players averaged 7.4, sunderland 6.9, newcastle 6.1…

I could understand it a bit more if they were more honest “we expect better quality from newcastle than the other two, so mark them harder” but in practice it means the north east’s player of the year award will go to some mackem left-back who wouldn’t be fit to lace the boots of the equivalent toon player, simply because the toon are seen to have underperfromed whereas if sunderland finish 17th it’s a party.

Yes, expectations are different, yes, our players are underperforming. But they’re still performing better than that dross served up at the SoS (stadium of shite)…

anyway, it’s your own fault. you provoked the rant…!

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