Why do you think it is his job to report facts?
Quite.. in the context of modern football journalism, the word 'facts' placed next to the word 'journalist' makes for an oxymoron.
Regarding yesterday's PL extraordinary meeting, speaking with with my longstanding, match-going Geordie chum Brian who now lives in York, he was somewhat amazed at the reactions from other clubs and especially the media to the events of the past few weeks since the Toon takeover.
Having listened patiently to his litany of complaints about (ahem! where have we heard these things before..?!) media lies/half-truths and 'Big 4 self-entitlement' and so on and so on, I said 'Welcome to our world, R Kid!'
Fortunately, I ended the phone call having cheered him up somewhat by quoting what I've said on here a couple of times down the years..
'Imagine you're an atom that was created in the split second to the Nth degree at the moment of the Big Bang.. you've travelled through space-time for anything between 12-14 billion years, helping to create galaxies here and nebulae there and also planets along the way.. and you might have helped create a dinosaur or two, even Shakespeare or Mozart.. and then, one day you realise you're one of the 7 octillion atoms required to make a grown up human but you've ended up being in a footy 'journalist' like Delaney or Roan or so many other wastes of space peddling their lies and half-truths for click-bait.. I mean, how f**king disappointed would you be?'
