FrankDrebin
Don't call me Shirley
Oh, here we go. Back peddling.
This is cowboy journalism.
Yeah it seems strange that someone would be in the know about a player arriving for a medical and not knowing who it is.This guy knows feck all and should be on the blacklist for tweets. Like anyone would tell him if a player has been waved through for a medical.
Yeah, that's a sackable offense surely!
A reserve keeper Couldn’t be any duller if true.
some of you need to take a deep breath. if every journalist who publishes some heresay or rumour which turns out to have been false is thrown under the bus, there wont be many left. perhaps we should invite him to CAF HQ and them dismember him. I am actually joking, before some of you start a campaign for that to actually happen.
if anyone sticks any money on any transfer (or any other novelty bet) without having first hand or concrete info, they are a complete and utter mug and should be sectioned. as for journalists confirming info with sources, thats nonsense too unless teh story has major ramifications, when most articles mention unidentified 'sources', thats just heresay for rumours and whispers. go thourgh the transfer threads, i would guess 95% of the stuff mentioned (from 'sources') never happens, thats because its all based on hot air. does the job though.It is literally the first rule of journalism that you don't report something until you have confirmed the information with a source. I know twitter has changed the game somewhat and football isn't particularly important in the grand scheme of things but there a real world implications for this sort of lazy journalism. For example, some people might have gone and stuck £50 on Berge to Utd. I wouldn't do that because they shouldn't be trusted but others might.
We truly are Banter FC
if anyone sticks any money on any transfer (or any other novelty bet) without having first hand or concrete info, they are a complete and utter mug and should be sectioned. as for journalists confirming info with sources, thats nonsense too unless teh story has major ramifications, when most articles mention unidentified 'sources', thats just heresay for rumours and whispers. go thourgh the transfer threads, i would guess 95% of the stuff mentioned (from 'sources') never happens, thats because its all based on hot air. does the job though.