"The Athletic" launches in the UK | About to be bought by NYT for $550m (p 32)

[Deepest Blue]

Can they do a BOGOF deal and include Stone?

 

[Vienna_70]

Can they do a BOGOF deal and include Stone?

We’ll throw in the slug too.

 

[JASR]

Can they do a BOGOF deal and include Stone?

Or Roan.

 

[NorCalBlue]

I'm more of an aggressive walking kind of man, myself.

I was going to give this a like until I realized I misread "walking".

 

[NorCalBlue]

Wonder if they'll be objective or just be a united platform to spew the usual American backed bile against us.

Still, at least it's ok for Dippers and media alike to take the money.

Despite the American ownership of United and Liverpool, my experience of the football media over here is that it seems a lot more balanced than in England.

 

[razman]

That's quiet a list !

 

[markbmcfc]

Wonder how many of these journos jumping ship have written stories or references to players changing clubs for financial reasons....

 

[BigOscar]

I'm a member already for their baseball coverage and it is fantastic. Just proper writers, writing proper articles, very little click bait bullshit. Lots of in depth stories on players backgrounds and the like, then good team by team coverage from good beat reporters.

Whether football actually has enough good writers to pull this off, I guess we'll see. Even the better ones tend to be pretty awful at times, whereas baseball has always been a sport reported on by probably the best of all the sports writers

 

[twosips]

I'm a member already for their baseball coverage and it is fantastic. Just proper writers, writing proper articles, very little click bait bullshit. Lots of in depth stories on players backgrounds and the like, then good team by team coverage from good beat reporters.

Whether football actually has enough good writers to pull this off, I guess we'll see. Even the better ones tend to be pretty awful at times, whereas baseball has always been a sport reported on by probably the best of all the sports writers

Hopefully free of the most likely bullshit metrics based approach they currently work under they'll get to write some good pieces. Must be a nightmare writing a piece knowing it has to have a certain amount of readers staying on page for a certain amount of time etc.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

I'm a member already for their baseball coverage and it is fantastic. Just proper writers, writing proper articles, very little click bait bullshit. Lots of in depth stories on players backgrounds and the like, then good team by team coverage from good beat reporters.

Whether football actually has enough good writers to pull this off, I guess we'll see. Even the better ones tend to be pretty awful at times, whereas baseball has always been a sport reported on by probably the best of all the sports writers

You still have excellent sports writers and reporters in the USA. Most of the sports journalists in the UK are totally shite. They just twist and re-hash quotes from press conferences and other people's social media accounts. There are a few good ones but most of them are incapable of finding or developing exclusive or unique content. There is virtually no intelligent football coverage in this country. We have no dedicated sports papers and only one radio station which is truly dreadful. The Athletic would have done better if it recruited some new talent instead of a bunch of has-beens.