JWP article in The Guardian

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Le Tissier's Laces said:
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
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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.:mad:
 
fran-MLs little camera said:
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.:mad:
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Oh crikey, I was trying to lighten the mood! But yes, it's a poor, cobbled together piece. Shows he's getting noticed though.
 
Le Tissier's Laces said:
Oh crikey, I was trying to lighten the mood! But yes, it's a poor, cobbled together piece. Shows he's getting noticed though.
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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.
 
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!
 
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).
 
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