But why would he miss out all the ones that say its not close unless he thinks it is? At the very worst he's been incredibly clumsy with this article.
He doesn't have to reference them all individually. All he'd have to say is that "some reports say its not as advanced". Would be an easy tag on to any of those sentences.
exactly, they've chosen to report on the ones that say it is close and the mirror this morning saying "is understood to be close" would make zero sense to add too, unless he is being clumsy
Life was simpler when we found out who we signed in the morning papers, this is a minefield keeps us busy I guess
well if we go back to what happened yesterday, Sacha and Mike McGrath have heard the same news that it is close, ben jacobs and others heard we are in talks but not close
Not saying that this ISN’T close; but that reads like a compendium article to me. Additionally Copley is generally online page filler - apart from his stuff on youth teams. If this was genuine direct info I’d expect it to come from Phil Smith.
Pretty irresponsible to pick and choose which of the reports on a subject to report on and not even reference the other ones. Gutter journalism and my already low respect for him has dropped.