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HobbitSpur

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I know I read that through my Tottenham Tinted Glasses, but very rarely do I read such I succinct article that hits the nail so perfectly.

Absolutely 100% on the money. Hopefully he will start to get the praise from those outside the club that most of us here have seen over the last couple of seasons.
 

Shirtfront

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I totally agree. He is truly gifted writer - insightful, elegant, and succinct. Rare to fine someone so intelligent and able writing in the Sport section of any paper.
 

Gazza2K2

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I'll be the first to admin I wasn't his biggest fan but he really has upped his game in the last few months and that's evident from the amount of assists and goals from open play.

BUT the fact remains, he still cannot take a corner and hasn't scored from a free kick from maybe 2 years now?? There must be someone who can beat the first man from a corner!!
 

guiltyparty

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Can't imagine him being pals with the likes of Ashton, Samuel, and Custis.

They all hate him. He's a young, intelligent writer who doesn't buy into all the accepted hierarchy and old boys club around sports journalists. You sometimes see him in the background behind the scenes on telly, he stands out a mile as he's about 20 years younger than most of them. But he purposefully trolls them off on twitter, it's great. They just don't have the brainpower to take him on so they just childishly insult him and it shows their true colours. You won't catch him on Sunday Supplement
 

guiltyparty

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Him, Oliver Holt and Henry Winter and Paul Hayward are in general a good read.

Yes agree. Tho Holt's a bit of a twat in real life. Very arrogant. Winter's the don and knows it, but does it with a Leslie Phillips flourish

Sam Wallace is ok at the telegraph altho he's quite in with the Sunday supplement set so can therefore be a bit of a nob through osmosis. He seems to be one youngster all the oldies like because he doffs his cap and plays ball.

I tend to like writers who don't have to dirty themselves with gossip. Barney Ronay and Louise Taylor at the Guardian. Miguel Delaney at the Indie. Daniel Storey and Johnny Nic on F365. Michael Cox at ESPN. Rory Smith is pretty good. I don't mind Alan Smith either. Marcotti obviously

Pretty much every single tabloid writer is awful. They're just batshit bad, all of them. With some it's just part of the job, its mandated from above - Martin Lipton is a very nice guy for example but has to peddle the bullshit.

With others - Custises, Ashton, Samuel, Shepard, Kidd, etc - they're just nasty pieces of work. And don't even get me started on that twat Castles.... I find it hilarious that these lot are basically as bad as a teenager making up horseshit on their blog but then act like there's some kind of craft in it
 
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guiltyparty

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On the subject, I think i've told this before on here, but I got to go to a sports conference at Wembley once, because Vauxhall were being announced as the new England sponsor. I went to cover it from a tech angle, but every other journo was football, as Capello was the main speaker.

Was fascinating, watching this very clear hierarchy take shape, even amongst a group of men who worked for entirely different companies. You can see why they all move around the papers, they're almost like a Mafia protection racket, occupying all the jobs and control the status quo. It's also clearly why they hate upstarts that aren't part of that group, like Jonathan Liew and Football 365, who pay them no respect.

It was about seven years ago, in the days of Brian Woolnough, who was the clear Don of the operation back then. Steve Curry was the dark-glassed muscle. Olly Holt the maverick ladies man. Jeff Powell the eccentric grandad. Henry Winter the moneyed brother in law from the City who isn't really part of the gang but who the others like to associate themselves with as if his class will rub off, who'd sweep in and write his report on an iPad, asking casually for the Wi-Fi password while surrounded by dinosaurs with ageing Soviet-era ethernet laptops.

Sam Wallace was around even then, much younger than everyone else and a kind of apprentice. He's gone on to big things.
 

Sweetsman

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On the subject, I think i've told this before on here, but I got to go to a sports conference at Wembley once, because Vauxhall were being announced as the new England sponsor. I went to cover it from a tech angle, but every other journo was football, as Capello was the main speaker.

Was fascinating, watching this very clear hierarchy take shape, even amongst a group of men who worked for entirely different companies. You can see why they all move around the papers, they're almost like a Mafia protection racket, occupying all the jobs and control the status quo. It's also clearly why they hate upstarts that aren't part of that group, like Jonathan Liew and Football 365, who pay them no respect.

It was about seven years ago, in the days of Brian Woolnough, who was the clear Don of the operation back then. Steve Curry was the dark-glassed muscle. Olly Holt the maverick ladies man. Jeff Powell the eccentric grandad. Henry Winter the moneyed brother in law from the City who isn't really part of the gang but who the others like to associate themselves with as if his class will rub off, who'd sweep in and write his report on an iPad, asking casually for the Wi-Fi password while surrounded by dinosaurs with ageing Soviet-era ethernet laptops.

Sam Wallace was around even then, much younger than everyone else and a kind of apprentice. He's gone on to big things.
Winter's a Gooner. He has this weird habit of pronouncing "footballer" as "futbulla": it's weird because he was educated at Westminster School!
 

guiltyparty

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Winter's a Gooner. He has this weird habit of pronouncing "footballer" as "futbulla": it's weird because he was educated at Westminster School!

Is he? Where you seen that? I'm fascinated by who the writers support

Everything I've seen on Winter says Chelsea. He's very in with John Terry. Altho he was asked by a Chelsea fan group in an interview once if he supported Liverpool as a kid, weirdly, and he said no.

John Cross from The Mirror, another terrible one, is definitely Arse. Ashton is Palace, Samuel West Ham, know that

Think Martin Lipton is Spurs
 

Sweetsman

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Is he? Where you seen that? I'm fascinated by who the writers support

Everything I've seen on Winter says Chelsea. He's very in with John Terry. Altho he was asked by a Chelsea fan group in an interview once if he supported Liverpool as a kid, weirdly, and he said no.

John Cross from The Mirror, another terrible one, is definitely Arse. Ashton is Palace, Samuel West Ham, know that

Think Martin Lipton is Spurs
I know people who know him and confirmed it via one of the Telegraph writers, who stated that it didn't affect his writing. The weirdest thing he did was write that hagiography about Sherwood being the young manager of his generation. I got into a spat with him in 606 about that subject matter (along with David Pleat and Clive Allen).
I'm surprised that Ashton is a Palace supporter, given he is Samuel's glove puppet.
 
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