Football journalism

I daf about motors + f1 and find some of Williams' sports writing easily skip-able + maybe sometimes a bit in the style of a very effortlessly competent local rag correspondent, in the job 4 life days. But I like his music writing just fine, haven't read owt for a bit, but his blog is on hiatus atm.

Williams going on about how we should cut Micheal Owen some slack because of what a tough career he's had and how touching his self-interested and purely ego driven comments about his injury record were recently, is making me realise he is very very bad sometimes, and much worse than I thought.

just noticed Pete W's post upthread that calsl Glanville and McIlvanney over-rated, I'm 7 years too late for the FPing

Jamie Jackson's verdicts on who Man Utd should sell/keep incl. this

Fred Can the Brazilian boss a game like a Kevin De Bruyne? If not then he is a squad player at best. Verdict Maybe stay.

so any midfielder not as good as KdB should be sold?? Would leave Utd with no midfielders, or LFC for that matter.

Jonathon Wilson meanwhile

Two years ago the German photographer Christian Vieler brought out a book comprising studio shots of dogs as they tried to catch a chewy treat he tossed for them. Look at those pictures and look at Henderson under a high ball. The expression is the same. The same focus, the same desire, the same sheer wonderment to be alive in a universe in which such delights can drop from the sky.

I enjoyed this, while not wholeheartedly agreeing with all of it.

Ken Early: Football’s new age neutralises philosophies of the past

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/english-soccer/ken-early-football-s-new-age-neutralises-philosophies-of-the-past-1.3874358?mode=amp

good stuff. thx for that onimo.

Yeah that was good, thanks. Hearty lol at this:

Klopp, plainly, is no Mourinho. Last week he did a “Jürgen Klopp answers the web’s most-searched questions about him” video for Soccer AM. Asked “What is your favourite film?” his answer was immediate and decisive: “Forrest Gump! ” Somewhere out there, José felt his lip curl without knowing why.

look

if youse aren't on the second captains podcast by now its on youse

on it now deems

It is the best, humour and insight and great interviewing. I listen to them even when it's a sport I have zero interest in.

Ken is just great fun to listen to, yes even his baffling mancrush on David Luiz

especially his irrational enthusiasms or dislikes, his scathing takes on silva are great

i love ken early

Am I missing something or did the podcast stop six months ago? Last one on Spotify was 15th September.

Never mind found the website. I forgot people had websites for stuff.

keep forgetting that richie, who is brilliant while never in any way appearing ill at ease with his ladness or striving for a pose (contrast with ken who is the very model of a fella looking for the mot juste and the big statement) has his MA in pyschotherapy since he retired

such high quality regulars, such a great blend and so at ease inter alia

i sometimes think about whether it would be plausible that there could ever be scottish football/sports journalism that could even touch second captains and there's just no fucking way

but i mean why not!

Scoop: “It has set off a bomb. Fuck it’s tremendous” – The Athletic guts the football teams from the Guardian, the Daily Mail and the Times.

We can reveal latest to exit are BBC’s David Ornstein and Guardian’s chief football writer Daniel Taylor.https://t.co/pcuTr9uN9H

— Mark Di Stefano 🤙🏻 (@MarkDiStef) July 17, 2019

One person briefed on the Athletic's plans told BuzzFeed News the US site is hoping to get 100,000 paid subscribers to fund its ambitious expansion into English football coverage.

Two sources said one subscription price point put forward would see subscribers pay “about £4 a month … or some sort of package where a reader pays £50 a year”. One source described it as “Netflix-like” pricing.

“They’re banking on a passionate football supporter willing to fork out £4 a month for some scoops about their team, and quality feature and match day writing,” the source said.

they haven't tapped up nult 🤔

Harsh on the Nult. xp

I don't think I've ever read an article on the Athletic.

well, it is subscription only

Ah yes, I see. Wondering how many people will want to subscribe to read "soccer" articles tbf

I think you mean "how many people will have want to have been going to have read BBC an Nult"

"BBC man" fuck this fucking phone

the liverpudlian scribe will have watched with some consternation as his peers in the british football press were poached by the upstart american outfit. he will have felt that his career will have been going to the proverbial dogs

Yeah that's how you will have wanted to do it

he will have wondered to himself the significance if any of wait where is everyone

jonathon wilson comparing pep to darth vader via some torturous analogy today.https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2019/oct/07/pep-guardiola-manchester-city-darth-vader-death-star-dark-side

it's like there's no point beating Man City because somehow it's all down to them and fuck all to do with your own performance

love wilson obviously but that is a fucking torturous analogy

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2020/jul/11/why-tottenham-are-stagnating-under-jose-mourinho-who-has-yet-to-evolve?CMP

Jonathan Wilson really on peak metaphorical form this morning:

Back then, Mourinho’s outrages were mitigated by his charm. But now it is as though Richard III had suffered no Bosworth. This is him after almost two decades on the throne, worn down by tax planning, worrying about alum prices, dealing with uppity nobles, the French and Lancastrian pretenders and suffering the growing realisation that some of his past excesses – drowning his brother in a vat of malmsey, murdering his nephews in the Tower, ending Anders Frisk’s career – probably shouldn’t have been excused on the basis of a knowing glance and a quip that made a good headline.

God love 'im

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/aug/02/frank-lampard-resolve-chelsea-defensive-issues-arsenal-fa-cup-final

jonathon wilson raises the bar on himself

In July 1971, Apollo 15 approached the moon. After the lunar module detached bearing the mission’s other two astronauts, Al Worden was left alone in the command module. When he went behind the moon, breaking transmission with Houston, he entertained himself by playing the Beatles, Elton John and John Denver and the soundtrack to 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Orbiting 2,235 miles from his companions on the moon’s surface and quarter of a million miles from Earth, Worden was for three days the most isolated human to have existed since Adam. Or at least he was until the 67th minute of the FA Cup final on Saturday.

lol at daniel harris's premier league likeability 11 including hamza choudhury, possibly the dirtiest player in the league.

BBC liveblog incapable of referring to 'Nicolas Pepe' without inserting '£72m' first

I've never encountered Melissa Reddy before but she makes me feel like my brain is broken

Enter the gushing over not the player who produced the decisive goal at a pivotal moment, nor the one who significantly prevented one with his first spot-kick save since 2016.

Lingard’s delicious drive on 89 minutes secured the precious points, a huge W, but as we keep being told they are title contenders, can we evaluate their credentials as such?

But the Hammers were without the talismanic Michail Antonio, such a puncture to their blueprint, and yet still, they threatened United until literally the last kick of the match.

Thats fucking horrible stuff

gah

give me nult

Wood’s perhaps surprisingly eclectic taste in music variously encompasses the Kings of Leon, Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra and Howe must trust his formidable aerial presence will bring similar breadth and diversity to a struggling, frequently one-dimensional, Newcastle XI.

nothing wrong with 1d.

Is that from The Nult?

louise taylor the guardian's goto newcastle correspondent i think

https://deadspin.com/marcelo-booted-from-lyon-locker-room-for-excessive-fart-1848906148

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhLfNdWBYhU

alfie potts harmer is by far my favourite football journalist

fuck a video, what's he say?

erudite challenging of stereotypes, detail-filled encomium to AFCON and why it's a good tournament that gets hideously misrepresented by a lot of media, etc

everything gets hideously misrepresented by the media tbh im kind of over cardigan journalists looking for pats on the head for this angle

"non-European football is good actually" feels like just another version of your bog standard pundit patronisation tbh