Does anybody here read the Liverpool section of The Telegraph's website?
Now I know that, on the whole, we've been wretched this season, and the amount of money we've spent means that we're obviously going to attract criticism. However, The Telegraph have a very specific formula for how they deal with Liverpool on their website; after Liverpool matches there will be:
- A match report, where the reporter will recount what happened in the match, as well as putting it into the context of Liverpool's overall season (fair enough).
- An article of further analysis geared towards Liverpool's problems, and how the last result may affect things (fair enough).
- A further article from Chris Bascombe, which will be more or less representative of Bascombe jumping up and down screaming "KENNY DALGLISH HAS SPENT 100M AND LIVERPOOL ARE CÃCK" over and over again, week after week.
Again, I get that we're going to be criticised, but Bascombe is like a cartoon dog straining at the leash, with his eyes rolling round in different directions, tongue hanging out, slobbering everywhere - just dying to het his weekly pop in at us. It all seems a bit unnecessary, when a half-decent writer like Henry Winter will often have already written an aforementioned analysis of where Liverpool are at.
Take yesterday's developments - amidst The Telegraph's coverage of Comolli's sacking were no fewer than TWO articles from Bascombe about how Dalglish's job is under threat with Comolli's dismissal.
Again, criticism is inevitable, but regular articles from Bascombe spouting exactly the same thing week after week is excessive and grates. Strangely, a bit of digging around reveals that he's a Liverpool fan.
Chris Bascombe
posted on 13/4/12
Fair point, not much to do with spare time in work other than reading the sports sites that the work browser let's me on, mind.
posted on 13/4/12
I don't usually read the Telegraph, but he used to be the Echo's Chief Liverpool reporter, has he changed since then?
posted on 13/4/12
I hadn't heard much about him, apparently he went from The Echo to The News Of The World (), causing a bit of a crap-storm, now he's at The Telegraph.
posted on 13/4/12
Hmm, maybe there's some bitterness from his move to the News of the World? I usually read the Guardian's website, which is pretty good, although they do like to go OTT whenever a club seems to be struggling in some way...
posted on 13/4/12
The telegraph do this with every club who've fallen down form their perch.
They've done it with Arsenal many times over the last decade, they did it with Man U during the Chelsea - Mourinho era, they did it with Newcastle during relegation, Liverpool are just the team who've currently fallen and are the target, I expect City to get the treatment next.
Just ignore it.
posted on 13/4/12
I've just read the article on "Comollis sacking" and whilst article after article is a bit ott, I agree with most of what he said!
posted on 13/4/12
I'm not really arguing with much that he says, it's just that any time anything bad happens he has to get his article in, making the same points as the week before, even if the ground has already been covered by another Telegraph journalist that day.
I'm not generally sensitive to media stuff (we're getting a pasting everywhere, rightly so) and yet Bascombe seems excessive in the extreme.
posted on 13/4/12
Dr Seven Grater
Have you read the "Football Experts" in the Daily Fail as they take some beating with the vitriol re LFC ?????????
posted on 13/4/12
No, I tend to avoid the Mail, although I've had the misfortune of seeing some of Martin Samuel's articles over the years.
posted on 14/4/12
LOL!