JWP article in The Guardian

Just to cheer us up a bit - there was an article/opinion piece regarding JWP being the new Beckham/Scholes etc today in The Guardian. Not seen it posted elsewhere, so - http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/nov/22/england-roy-hodgson-world-cup

 

What a hodge podge of an article. The writer meandered all over the place...acceptable in conversation but he would be slated in any writing group. You could read the whole article without having a clear idea of what he thought or where he was going. Some sentences didn't even make sense in the paragraphs they were tagged on to. Sorry to go on, but this article is a crime against writing. I know because I am a published writer.

Think he was criticising JWP and Beckham, but took a lot of words to say little.

 

Oh crikey, I was trying to lighten the mood! But yes, it's a poor, cobbled together piece. Shows he's getting noticed though.

 

Written by Jacob Steinberg....surely not a relation of our own Joe...

 

Well don't worry, it did. Actually, I thought it was well written, light, but with some well delivered messages. If someone was after a straight forward critique of JWP, this wasn't it. But if someone was after a thoughtfully and wittily produced piece, this went quite a long way in that direction. Worth reading.

Definitely not typical newspaper journalism, and all the better for it.

 

Wasn't getting at you. Unlike TSS I thought it was plain bad writing...rambling.

 

I think the point the piece was making, badly written though it was, was that JWP would have been compared to Paul Scholes, were it not for the fact that he can take a set-piece kick like David Beckham. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but that sounds like a hell of an accolade to me!

 

Uncle Jacob is a fully paid up Saints fan. This article's just a bit of a joke of course, the important stuff is here: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/nov/21/southampton-premier-league-arsenal-pochettino.

JWP can't be the new Scholes though, that's clearly Reed.

 

Yep. Can't wait for him to properly arrive.

 

Now that was better written. I'm sure my approval that will come as a relief to Mr Steinburg

 

I thought JWP showed what an all round excellent footballer he is yesterday by slotting into the defence at RB and did really well, not looking out of place too!
What a cracking lad he is!

 

JWP was actually quoted on MOTD last night. I had to smile...he gets everywhere.

 

Jacob Steinberg is a West Han fan in fact. Seems to be covering us a lot this season though, generally very positively (like everyone else, but hey).