Mass exodus of UK football journalists to American website 'The Atheletic'

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Mikey_Fitzgerald said:
Let's just say that parents who had kids with the conditions mentioned received very little sympathy from some of the teachers, with them taking a "parents aren't going to tell me how to run my class" attitude, despite the parents having legitimate things they needed to get across with the teacher that would actually help their children

And indeed, I vividly remember an exchange where one teacher was barking in a parents face that their child was just badly behaved and a "lost cause", when really he just had autism and, with a bit of help, he ended up doing much better the following year with a more sympathetic teacher who was actually willing to listen to the parents and try to help the lad out. So the term "behavioural deficiencies" took me back somewhat and reminded me of that unsympathetic tit. All of us who knew the kid understood that he wasn't actually a bad lad, so how that blinkered fool couldn't see it is beyond me. And amazingly, he didn't even get reprimanded for that either, and I'm only in my 30's so it's not like it was the "bad old days" either. He was not surprisingly a pro caner, and he more than once seemed wistful about it

Sorry, but you reminded me of him with the things you were saying
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There are some teachers like that, I'll admit. Not many though fortunately and not me. For behavioural deficiency (with the case I had in mind) read psychotic, malignant, disruptive, bullying, tit with no excuses to be that way other than being overindulged by priviliged parents who thought the sun shone from her orifices.
 
chrismpw said:
There are some teachers like that, I'll admit. Not many though fortunately and not me. For behavioural deficiency (with the case I had in mind) read psychotic, malignant, disruptive, bullying, tit with no excuses to be that way other than being overindulged by priviliged parents who thought the sun shone from her orifices.
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Those kids and parents indeed exist, and are horrible

Not sure caning them is the answer of course and I'd ferociously campaign against it if they ever tried to bring it back, but to each their own
 
chrismpw said:
The very best writers make reading a pleasure. Decent research, eloquence of phrase and imaginitive use of vocabulary is a rare art.

I'll be honest and say that they're few and far between in my experience. Most I've read cannot string and sentence together. Maybe it's editorial pressures, maybe it's too much time sitting in coffee bars, maybe they're handed the job by their dad's mate after a second rate public school education.

I understand it grates though. I'm sure I don't know the half if it. When it was a teacher with 30 years under my belt, I'd have to smile nicely at parents of 11 years telling me how I should teach a class to accommodate their little scrote's behavioural deficiencies.
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It’s no one’s fault but yours that you don’t read widely enough to experience the wealth of high quality sports writing.
 
chrismpw said:
Oh no! Who else can watch a football match free and write a few words about it?

What will we do?

Oh no! And who else with an imagination can think up utter wham during transfer windows to sell copy?

What will we do? The sky is falling. :coffee:
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Exactly the problem. As those who are capable of performing good investigative journalism and producing a good read from sometimes dry material continue to flounder in a clickbait economy we just get more half arsed reporting.
Simply dismissing football/sports journalism as writing up match reports and creating transfer wham plays right into the hands of the likes of Blatter and Infantino and any other number of powerful figures who prefer not to have their multi billion cashcow scrutinised.
 
dead_soft said:
It’s no one’s fault but yours that you don’t read widely enough to experience the wealth of high quality sports writing.
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You make a great number of assumptions about people, and then argue with what you assume to be true. It seems your imagination is cavernous.

You should try your hand at being a reporter.
 
ClausThomsen said:
Exactly the problem. As those who are capable of performing good investigative journalism and producing a good read from sometimes dry material continue to flounder in a clickbait economy we just get more half arsed reporting.
Simply dismissing football/sports journalism as writing up match reports and creating transfer wham plays right into the hands of the likes of Blatter and Infantino and any other number of powerful figures who prefer not to have their multi billion cashcow scrutinised.
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I'd take my hat off to any reporter who refused to be paid off and shut up about a millionaire's wrongdoings. Have you got a list of these reputable people's names? After all, they got away with it for decades.
 
chrismpw said:
I'd take my hat off to any reporter who refused to be paid off and shut up about a millionaire's wrongdoings. Have you got a list of these reputable people's names? After all, they got away with it for decades.
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Researching and writing it is not the same as a publication's legal team deciding its bulletproof enough to publish.

If you can point me in the direction of large cash sums for not writing about FIFA's corruption, I'd be grateful. I feel like such a fool to have not written about for free all this time.
 
The patch for Notts Forest is getting offered out at £36k.

Unbelievably well paid.

That being said, a lot of the smaller patches are only looking at 6-8 month contracts, to see how the subs go. They'll also be doing other work, obviously, not just on their patches.

The big writers - JPB, Daniel Taylor, and big patches (Sam Lee, James Pearce) will be on big money.
 
chrismpw said:
I'd take my hat off to any reporter who refused to be paid off and shut up about a millionaire's wrongdoings. Have you got a list of these reputable people's names? After all, they got away with it for decades.
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Not off the top of my head but I know papers such as Der Spiegel have locked horns with FIFA (quick google) Rafael Buschmann seems a good sort and has co-authored books on the corruption in football. Phillipe Auclair often speaks/writes about FIFA in less than glowing terms as well.
 
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