He's hapless in the way that as a journo he never seems to find any decent breaking leads or tales. Hapless, or useless, whichever way you wanna put it.
Me thinks he was trying to suggest the word hapless was inappropriate mate. Hapless means 'unfortunate' so I guess that's quite a compliment to Anderson. The local club journo that finds out stories after most of this forum.
Yeah, that is actually true, it was someone on here that asked him about Sissokho when he was 'breaking' the N'Diaye story and he replied and said: Finger on the pulse eh!?
Classic that. Surely, as a journo, if you have no genuine leads you would trawl forums and at least look for rumours with weight!
I'd trawl the foreign press myself, It's been a better source of genuine information imo, Like Com says, you'll do for me fella, You're not afraid to get your head round dodgy translations and bring us the information the British press can't be arsed to obtain.
Dunno mate, I tend to know the players, as i watch an incredible amount of games (was watching Ecuador league last night, I'm a sad twat...5 sent off in the game, was brutal..), but I'm not usually the guy actually finding the transfer stories, i can't take credit for that. If we're linked with a player, I'll probs know a bit about him, but I won't find the link, as such.