You and I clearly have different metrics as to what constitutes smart.
I was responding to a word you deployed, and gave specific examples of why I believe that to be incorrect. Irrespective of the evolving landscape of sports journalism, the fundamentals of his job remain to deploy the English language in order to communicate, and if he is advancing a particular argument, to do so in a coherent, well-considered, consistent and reasoned fashion, and so those skills remain relevant in modern (broadsheet) journalism, and form the bedrock of his profession - and the barometer against which his smartness needs to be evaluated - and he abjectly fails on all counts, save for his communication skills which I would describe as barely adequate, but still substandard for a professional journalist.
By measuring his smartness against his ability to garner clicks from Liverpool and United fans you are conspiring in the same race to the bottom which cunts like Delaney relish in and encourage to flourish.
So feel free to measure his smartness in those terms, and I’ll measure it in mine, but by your metric, Howson, Goldbridge and that Anfield Agenda bloke are all smart too, and by mine they are not - and you will continue to ascribe an unwarranted level of intelligence to someone who criticises City in an irrational, inconsistent, tendentious and specious fashion.