- May 28, 2013
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Do you expect him to directly quote Levy and Pochettino? So many on here treat reputable, well-established journalists the same as they'd treat some writer from the Bet365 football blog.
From my very extensive experience with "reputable, well-established journalists" over the years, I don't draw much of a distinction between a blog and an unattributed source quote. Some of those quotes are clearly nothing more than opinion anyway, and quoting opinion to substantiate opinion in the way it's done here is poor journalistic practice.
Despite that, it's not a bad piece overall, it's quite interesting and I agree with a lot of it, but it is an opinion piece.