Sports reporting at its worst

georgee
georgee Posts: 537
edited June 2009 in Commuting chat
maybe not directly commuting but I am sure you'll be amused by this muppet, why not leave a comment on his daft biggoted views...

http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/wos/ ... iclepage=1

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  • robmanic1
    robmanic1 Posts: 2,150
    Comment left
    Pictures are better than words because some words are big and hard to understand.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/34335188@N07/3336802663/
  • bluesacs
    bluesacs Posts: 95
    Don't leave any comments. It just justifies his actions in terms of readership. The grauniad does this all the time, setting up a straw man argument and people write in complaining etc and then the paper's marketers point out the readership to their advertisers etc.

    Write to his editor, suggesting he should be made transport correspondent rather than sports reporter.
  • robmanic1
    robmanic1 Posts: 2,150
    bluesacs wrote:
    Don't leave any comments. It just justifies his actions in terms of readership. The grauniad does this all the time, setting up a straw man argument and people write in complaining etc and then the paper's marketers point out the readership to their advertisers etc.

    Write to his editor, suggesting he should be made transport correspondent rather than sports reporter.

    He should be delivering papers, not writing in them. Is he trying to be Clarkson without the humour (or good looks)?
    Pictures are better than words because some words are big and hard to understand.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/34335188@N07/3336802663/
  • _Brun_
    _Brun_ Posts: 1,740
    Robmanic1 wrote:
    Comment left
    :lol:
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,395
    Please show some respect.

    This man is the Chief Sports Reporter... :lol::lol::lol:
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  • Tom Barton
    Tom Barton Posts: 516
    I believe what this country needs badly is a system of corporal punishment... Could solve alot of probles..

    I feel a good old black adder suggestion for this cretin:

    Dipping of the gonads in a vat of warm marmalade. Suitably rememorable for him and will hopefully remove him from the gene pool...

    Extreme I know, but we could do worse as far as governement policy making goes :-))
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    A bit silly - Peterborough needs all the help it can get. Whereas every other city I have been to in recent years has developed an extensive evening/night life based around vibrant pubs, restaurants and clubs, Peterborough in the evening is like a ghost town. Actually quite hard to find anywhere to eat. It's exactly like it was 20 years ago. THis bloke should have been telling everyone about it beforehand so that more people would watch it live and on ITV4.
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  • Gilbie
    Gilbie Posts: 99
    I cringed reading that, what a complete tool. Trying to be witty but ended up making an arse of himself.
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    On page 2 of that article
    Imbecile wrote:
    3) Jensen Button to lap Lewis Hamilton more than once in the same Grand Prix. Amazingly there are some petrol-heads out there who believe driver skill is relevant in Formula One.

    Clearly he doesn't like wheeled sports of any description. Now, you may not like F1 (and if you don't, you are probably right!) but you'd have to be about the stupidest sports reporter in the world ever to believe that driver skill doesn't matter. Cycling must be one of the few sports that is as physically demanding as F1 but I daresay this dipwad rates golf as more of a sport than either.
    Faster than a tent.......
  • Capo
    Capo Posts: 439
    Looking at the rest of his column, I was thinking he doesn't seem to like sport at all.

    Then I looked at his profile pic and I thought "Hello, that looks familiar...".

    His rantings get pointed out now and again on a mailing list I am on for a certain Premiership football side whose name starts with A and doesn't end with Villa, so I've seen his scribblings before and these latest efforts are very much par for the course.

    I imagine that he's bitter and twisted that he's on a provincial paper and not on one of the nationals - but, hey, at least he's chief "sports" writer. :lol:
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  • Capo
    Capo Posts: 439
    Wait... sky don't show and therefore don't promote cycling?

    http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/web/si ... y_Deal.asp

    Oh, that definitely needs to be flagged up in a comment on the site, nice to see chief sportswriter has his finger on the pulse.

    Won't be me doing the commenting though - sleep beckons.
    Can\'t drive, won\'t drive
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Capo wrote:
    Wait... sky don't show and therefore don't promote cycling?

    http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/web/si ... y_Deal.asp

    Oh, that definitely needs to be flagged up in a comment on the site, nice to see chief sportswriter has his finger on the pulse.

    Won't be me doing the commenting though - sleep beckons.

    It's OK, done it myself.
  • Capo
    Capo Posts: 439
    Heh! There are some great comments there now.

    Although I think the one questioning the size of his manhood was a bit below the belt, as it were :wink:
    Can\'t drive, won\'t drive
  • Chewy Cheeks
    Chewy Cheeks Posts: 234
    I read this piece last night -

    My overall impression was of a person who had no feel or love for sport, had never played or if he has felt no emotion.

    For a sports reporter, cant imagine him having great relationships with sportsmen/women.

    Perhaps he needs to do something else - seems more like a stereotypical crime reporter to me.
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    What I like is the reporter's small pic by his name, and - instead of a photo of, say, a bike, or Lance Armstrong, or even Manchester City, there's a photo of the same reporter, looking for all the world like an unhealthy, malicious c***!

    I might write a letter to his editor - though it wouldn't surprise me if he IS the editor, since who else would appoint this tw&tbag as chief sports reporter?
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    Here we go:
    me wrote:
    Dear Vicki,

    I just wanted to make sure the MD had read Alan Swann's article on cycling in the online Evening Telegraph on 9th June - here's a link to it:

    http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/wos/ ... 5347120.jp

    Please do make sure she reads it - it's ill-informed, abusive rubbish of the highest order and so ridiculously unbefitting of a sports reporter. Not only does he not have an inkling about facts, but his malicious disparagement of a sport the UK is actually good at is shocking.

    I would ask that your editor seriously re-consider Mr Swann's position. If the paper needs a poor man's Jeremy Clarkson then perhaps a lifestyle column where everyone can laugh at him (god knows they won't be laughing WITH him) would be more appropriate.

    I'm sure you'll find any number of bright, informed sports journos who'd love a job like this. Get rid of this nasty piece of work, please.

    Best wishes,
    Mark
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Spot on - I was thinking he was trying to be Clarkson... but not doing very well.
  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    Wait... sky don't show and therefore don't promote cycling?

    http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/web/si ... y_Deal.asp

    Tour down under was on sky sports too :roll:

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  • What a moron.
    Not since the Matthew Paris debacle have a read such a total string of tripe.

    I didn't log a comment on the site, because to do so would mean I would have to register, and give my email address. Which no doubt they would then sell (despite their so called privacy statement) to marketing companies so they can spam me with adverts.
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