Should they give up the day job and take up authorship? Of late I have read more made up stories from sports journalists than I have found on the fiction shelves in my local library. The only thing they haven't said Saints are selling is the stadium.
There are two sorts of sports writers: the ones who agree with me and are naturally brilliant and the others.
Rumours and speculation are to be expected. But at a time of considerable change at the top end of our club, & the announcement of multi-million pound transfer debt, don't you think we are a little more fair game?
Couldn't agree more. I hope we are all keeping an eye on DTLW, to make sure he doesn't stray into outright fiction in the future.
Fair game for what? Speculation is one thing but what some of them are saying is, as Godders suggests, pure fantasy. If they offered it as their opinion you wouldn't mind but instead they make out that the deals are done. Then you have the issue that most of them aren't journalists anyway. They copy what someone else has written, without any effort to check on the substance of what they are regurgitating.
We are all a bit guilty of that, but then we are not paid to do detailed research. Our job is to panic.
