The Stir part 42

[Paulus]

Yet more journalistic brilliance from our esteemed organ.

https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/foo...d-s-style-reminds-me-of-gareth-bale-1-9024809

 

[Pierre's PC]

Could someone do a bullet point presentation of the article.

I'm not turning my adblocker off nor am I signing up.

Fanx x

 

[wizadry]

So Lundstram is like Gareth Bale?

 

[Paulus]

It must be his pace.....

 

[Tom Bott]

Though to be fair he was quoting Chris Basham.

“The reason I mention Bale is just how smooth he (Brooks) is as a player and how comfortable he is with either his right or left foot,”

 

[Paulus]

Someone's just had a bollocking, it took them 15 minutes to change the photo though.

 

[wizadry]

Someone's just had a bollocking, it took them 15 minutes to change the photo though.

Your OP is going to look rather shit now, a bit like my Lundstram comment.

Never mind, someone will definitely believe us.

 

[raul]

Somehow I doubt there's enough Popcorn in the world to settle back for this one....

 

[LoughboroBlade]

I’ve likened the directness of his play to Bale’s – I don’t think that’s a particularly revolutionary view either. But then I’m not constantly waiting for The Star’s latest article to jump on it no matter what, so perhaps I’m in the minority...

 

[Paulus]

Just for posterity and to prove that neither myself or wizadry have lost our marbles......just yet

 

[Guesty]

Never mind Brooks, Chilwell looks different to how I remember...

 

[Paulus]

Interestingly Ben Chilwell seems to have undergone some sort of change during the game

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Just for posterity and to prove that neither myself or wizadry have lost our marbles......just yet

Ahhhh, all is clear. Nearly as good as the old Peter Ndlovu mislabelled pictures in the Green ‘Un.

 

[ucandomagic]

Brooks really does make defenders go pale!

 

[Kenilworth]

Different shade of gray

 

[ShockingBadBuy]

Just for posterity and to prove that neither myself or wizadry have lost our marbles......just yet

Interestingly Ben Chilwell seems to have undergone some sort of change during the game

FFS ! So soon after Melting Potgate, too. Honestly, what a shambles.

 

[Pierre's PC]

Watching this thread with interest now.

Let's see how it goes

 

[Blade58]

Inept

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Inept

Agree, totally.

And the thing is, it keeps happening, time and time again. I still remember the King Charles Spaniel with a caption below that referred to Kieron Freeman! I mean, this isn't just a case of mistaken identity, it's total incompetence, but it is obvious there are inadequate editorial checks.

 

[Harrisblade]

FFS ! So soon after Melting Potgate, too. Honestly, what a shambles.

How are we getting on with the grass verges?
Time for an update perhaps?

 

[Dkc]

Be fair to James Shield, putting up the wrong photo won't be his doing.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Be fair to James Shield, putting up the wrong photo won't be his doing.

Would it be too much to expect someone to just check? It's hardly a big job, and there are all those Blades working there........

It seems to happen with articles about United. Maybe it's just incompetence, maybe it's not. Do these things ever get put right before they are referenced on here ?

 

[I should coco]

Maybe it's just incompetence, maybe it's not.

I suppose if you were really desperate for a few hundred clicks at £0.001 each, you might deliberatelyu get it wrong knowing they'd be a post on here and plenty would click through.

That would suggest a Machivelian genius at work though, so I prefer the incompetence theory.

Do these things ever get put right before they are referenced on here ?

If a tree falls in a wood, do the Star do a major article about it and how much mess was left on the verge afterwards?

 

[stringer]

Only Part 42? Or is that just since the turn of the year?

 

[shorehamview]

Only Part 42? Or is that just since the turn of the year?

Since last Thursday, those typos come thick and fast. Or Thack And Fist, if you're a Star proofreader.

 

[Sean Thornton]

I suppose if you were really desperate for a few hundred clicks at £0.001 each, you might deliberatelyu get it wrong knowing they'd be a post on here and plenty would click through.

That would suggest a Machivelian genius at work though, so I prefer the incompetence theory.



If a tree falls in a wood, do the Star do a major article about it and how much mess was left on the verge afterwards?

If there was a story about a tree falling, Blades hooligans would be to blame. It would have been diseased as well as falling on a basket of abandoned Coventry supporting orphaned kittens, all suffering kidney damage and covered in spittle.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Sheffield Uniteds David Brooks "Happy to be back in first team action"

 

[Dkc]

I used to work in a local news room in the late 1990s / early 2000s*. I'd go out to sports events with a photographer and tell him who I wanted pics of. He'd email me the pics, I'd caption them and send them on for editing and layout. But you could almost guarantee that they would still use the wrong pic or wrong caption, and my articles were edited in such way that they were (even) crapper. I ended up insisting that they remove my by-line from everything I wrote.

*Not The Star

 

[Tom Bott]

Todays SPAR article re- the possibility of the Porkers getting into the play offs is funny though.

Totally plausible if you are massively deluded.

 

[stringer]

Todays SPAR article re- the possibility of the Porkers getting into the play offs is funny though.

Totally plausible if you are massively deluded.

The one that quotes Jack Hunt admitting they need a miracle (winning every game) to do so?