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Football reporting to be limited to upsets
england
THE media is to cease reporting
football results that, like Chelsea
beating Hull, are entirely expected
by everyone.
The media has decided to stop
wasting valuable pages and airtime
on matches which unfold exactly as
anyone would have predicted with
only minor numerical variation.
Mirror editor Tom Booker said: “As
journalists say, man bites dog is
news and Arsenal beat Newcastle
four-one at home isn’t. It’s the
equivalent of a front-page headline
alerting the readers to the prospect
of rain at the weekend, which we
don’t do because we’re not the Daily
Express.
“From now on games which finish
exactly as anyone would have
guessed, like City beating Palace
last weekend, will get a one line
Above: The new media rules will mean that
fans will no longer have to endure images like
this one, taken some time in the last decade
write-up on page 47, just under the
English Kabaddi Federation finals.
Games between mediocre teams
that are evenly matched, like United
against Liverpool, will get two
paragraphs next to the advert for
hair loss cream and white vans.
Only
matches
with
genuine
surprises, like Spurs losing six-nil to
Bradford Park Avenue, will get the
full headline-and-photo treatment.
And even then only the first time
it happens. Nil-nil games get no
write-up at all, because nothing
happened.”
QPR fan Wayne Hayes said: “Under
this system Chelsea, who can be
reasonably expected to win every
game this season because everyone
else is a bit rubbish, will become
champions without it being reported
in the press at all. That sounds top.
I’m well happy with that.”
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