Taking issue with the Liverpool Echo

[ToffeeDan]

Copy of email to Editor of the Echo

Mark,

I feel I must take issue with the report in yesterday's Liverpool Daily Post and Echo entitled: "Everton made it easy for us, says...Benitez"

Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk - Liverpool FC - Liverpool FC News - Everton made it easy for us, says Liverpool FC manager Rafael Benitez

I hate to sound pedantic but I must question the veracity of this statement. I can find no reference to Mr Benitez making reference to the word "easy". However you may wish to protest journalistic licence but, without wishing to question outright either the reporter or the headline writer's knowledge of the Use of English, I must either assume one of three scenarios are in play here:

Either: The person responsible fails to appreciate the subtle difference between "easy" and "easier"

Or: It's a deliberate dig at Everton by the aforementioned person responsible for the splash

Or: It is simply casual journalistic licence.

Although I understand Mr. Benitez needs no encouragement to belittle Everton the words you have quoted him as using - namely "easier" suggests, with a degree of candour that Liverpool's task was made easier by Everton's tactics - as opposed to the headline banner which implies something of both an insult (no evidence of this is clear from Mr. Benitez's words) on either his part or just the reporter taking great delight in the nuance of the word "easy" - which suggests the challenge that Everton offered to Liverpool in the match was neglible.

[Cena_is_an_Evertonian]

I don't understand why people don't like the echo, i enjoy buying/reading it

[Ezekiel]

theres no point. the echo is a paper by liverpool fc supporters for liverpool fc supporters.

any blue who still buys this daily edition of the kop wants their head testing.

[Sharpys top lip]

Originally Posted by Cena_is_an_Evertonian

I don't understand why people don't like the echo, i enjoy buying/reading it

FFS Mate, i really hope your kidding.

This paper is not fit for shit roll. It's red through an through. For the last 5 or so years the cheif Everton reporter was a red shite who had, had a season ticket over there for years..

He has now got "the job of my dreams" as the cheif writer for the shite.

I'd rather buy the sun!!!

[padefc]

Originally Posted by ToffeeDan

Copy of email to Editor of the Echo

Mark,

I feel I must take issue with the report in yesterday's Liverpool Daily Post and Echo entitled: "Everton made it easy for us, says...Benitez"

Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk - Liverpool FC - Liverpool FC News - Everton made it easy for us, says Liverpool FC manager Rafael Benitez

I hate to sound pedantic but I must question the veracity of this statement. I can find no reference to Mr Benitez making reference to the word "easy". However you may wish to protest journalistic licence but, without wishing to question outright either the reporter or the headline writer's knowledge of the Use of English, I must either assume one of three scenarios are in play here:

Either: The person responsible fails to appreciate the subtle difference between "easy" and "easier"

Or: It's a deliberate dig at Everton by the aforementioned person responsible for the splash

Or: It is simply casual journalistic licence.

Although I understand Mr. Benitez needs no encouragement to belittle Everton the words you have quoted him as using - namely "easier" suggests, with a degree of candour that Liverpool's task was made easier by Everton's tactics - as opposed to the headline banner which implies something of both an insult (no evidence of this is clear from Mr. Benitez's words) on either his part or just the reporter taking great delight in the nuance of the word "easy" - which suggests the challenge that Everton offered to Liverpool in the match was neglible.

nice try matey but i fear your"pissing in to the wind" so to speak

Originally Posted by Sharpys top lip

FFS Mate, i really hope your kidding.

This paper is not fit for shit roll. It's red through an through. For the last 5 or so years the cheif Everton reporter was a red shite who had, had a season ticket over there for years..

He has now got "the job of my dreams" as the cheif writer for the shite.

I'd rather buy the sun!!!

know where your coming from there

[deathbyropeandglass]

Lets be honest, they will just laugh at that and rightfully so. Even if they are fair and unbiased, even more if they are rs.
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[tomainzy]

Originally Posted by Cena_is_an_Evertonian

I don't understand why people don't like the echo, i enjoy buying/reading it

Really!do you think its anything to do with the fact its a RED paper.Exactly the same as Radio City are a RED station.How do I know?Lets just say 'I KNOW'.
Next time you read this RAG,Check the back page and see if you can spot the Everton write up.9/10 it'll be a tiny strip on the side or inside.Changed a bit though last April/May though.Cant understand why.

[kenada_blue]

It was easy for them though.......

[davek]

The Echo footy reporters are trash. Let's face it. Who's ever gone on to anything better after writing for that rag? McNulty is trundled out by the BBC for some Merseyside oriented piece that is just generalised bullshit for national consumption and which bears no relation to reality as we know it. Bascombe was picked up by News of the Screws. Basically, if you can write in a concise fashion and trawl the net/radio phone-ins efficiently to gauge fan mood, you're in.

[Gwladys Nights]

Originally Posted by tomainzy

Next time you read this RAG,Check the back page and see if you can spot the Everton write up.9/10 it'll be a tiny strip on the side or inside.Changed a bit though last April/May though.Cant understand why.

That's rubbish. We're often the main story, they seem to alternate between us and them from day to day, making an exception sometimes if a big story breaks on either side.

Maybe you sleep for 35 hours at a time and have just gotten into an unfortunate Echo-buying rhythm because of it, but otherwise I think you're just being paranoid.

[GrandOldTeam]

What was the name of that guy who was the Everton journalist for that rag for years, only to recently admit he was a Liverpool fan and now writes for them?, saying "When your boyhood club come calling, you don't say no?"