I read the general context of it but I never subscribed to The Athletic for it. I also heard it on local radio. The article contained nothing I hadn't heard before and a lot of what I thought was was someone else's view on what they thought had happened. I can still make my own mind up thank you.
Near enough every half decent journo is churning articles out for The Athletic these days - I think it’s a decent outlet tbh, well worth the subscription as long as it’s on special offer.
Who was the young reporter who left to work for a national newspaper and was on Sunday Supplement sometimes? He died in his 40s. He was excellent. Can't remember his name. A lot on here won't have been going then but in the pantheon of uselessness James Shields was up at the top. I noticed the other year he had been voted the worst football.reporter ever in the local Sheffield paper.
No-one is arguing with that. Its only a newspaper going on line after all. The days of the printed daily local newspapers are numbered, the HDM isn't even printed in Hull anymore. I haven't bought the HDM for a couple of years now and someone brings me his copies a couple of days old ( I wish he wouldn't) and the only bit worth reading are the readers letters page. I turn straight to that, then to see if anyone I know has died and then they go straight in the bin. I worked at the HDM in the very early 70's when it was printed in Jameson Street, Hull. It was a big employer then in the middle of the city and quite influential. But even then those in the know knew it had seen its best days and circulation dropped with every price increase. It was three old pence in those day. I also worked on the Sports Mail for a bit too. A HDM in those days gave you a full night of reading and Sports Mail a full week end. Today ? Not worth picking up.
Danny Fullbrook ? Colin Young did him self no harm moving on. Also See Andrew Collomosse's ( used to write for HKR at the HDM) son is writing for the nationals.
Yes, that's him. I can only assume that those who say Phil Buck is the best since Brian Taylor have forgotten about him or weren't going at that time.
Just so you know, Richard, I wasn't knocking him for being a Sunlan fan. It was only that I couldn’t trust my memory. I just thought I remembered reading that somewhere.
I didn't think you did! For the record, Danny Fullbrook was an excellent reporter for City, who really tried to engage with the fans and put our point of view over. Him and Phil are the best two I've known as City, though Danny's time at the HDM was fairly fleeting, and Phil must have done 15 years or do. His recent nostalgia stuff during the lockdown reflected that, as it was excellent.
John Fieldhouse. He was great. He could pack away three fish and chips on his own....No problem. Saw him raid the top shelf at a chippie in Boston and leave jack $hit for anyone else. He was a fish'n chip monster, but a crap City journalist. Then he wrote a book, which wasn't bad, but full of errors like wrong scorelines..Oh well. There but for the Grace of God...Go I
"I haven't bought the HDM for a couple of years now and someone brings me his copies a couple of days old ( I wish he wouldn't) and the only bit worth reading are the readers letters page. I turn straight to that, then to see if anyone I know has died and then they go straight in the bin." There's nothing like gratitude, and that's nothing like it! That said I buy the paper, and always read the letters page, though it's dominated by Milner from Hedon, Crossland from Nafferton and the absolute nutter from Bridlington, Aled Jones.
It was an insult to City fans from the HDM the way they foisted useless reporters with no ability or interest in City on us City fans. Most RL reporters had a knowledge of and interest in the clubs and built them up acting more like they were engaged in PR than reporting.
