[PRESS GAZETTE] Football club closes training sessions over citizen journalism
Championship football club Norwich City have resorted to private training sessions, blaming rapid online reporting due to the surge in ‘citizen journalism’.
Previously, fans could enjoy watching their team prepare for upcoming games at the club’s Colney Training Centre. However, access to the centre will be closed to the public on days leading up to fixtures from 16 August.
[via Rick Waghorn]
There; much better. I love how people get overly worked up about things like this. I’m especially happy now that I have a place where all those idiotic comments can be published for the whole world to see.
Here’s some of my favourites:
“Do the decent thing and give us a logo we can be proud of and not this national embarrassment.”
It’s not really that embarrassing, is it? No.
“The logo lacks elegance and style; two British attributes we are very fond of. Its cheesy and not at all professional – we’ll be the laughing stock of all who see it!”
Hmmm. I think more people will laugh when they see how much of a fuss has been made over it.
The Olympic logo is just like Britain these days — second rate!! One we were a proud nation, proud of our herriatage and everything we stood for. I feel ashamed to say that I am British if that monstrosity is the best we can come up with! If this is going to be a symbol of Britains Olymics, then I truly don’t want to be British any longer. “
I mean honestly — what a complete nonce. They’re not my spelling mistakes by the way. I just can’t be bothered being [sic] all over it.
Gotta love this one though:
“400 grand? I could have achieved the same thing with 10 pints of lager and a kebab.”
Ha!
Sure, I don’t like the logo. It’s naff. But I’m not losing sleep over it. I’m not packing my bags and un-Britishing myself because some designer got it wrong. If there’s one thing that this logo tells us all, it’s that British people are just completely silly.
Yes, yes, it was a completely diabolical final, but I don’t want to talk about that (after all, real football is found in the lower leagues, everyone knows that).
But I’d like to raise a glass to the BBC sports team. There isn’t a youtube clip yet — I’ll find one soon — but if you saw the efforts of Garth Crooks and Jonathan Pearce on the pitch after the final whistle I’m sure you’ll agree it was a hilariously brilliant moment.
Garth runs off like an excited squirrel, screaming “John! John! Well done John!” as he tries to grab John Terry for an interview. In the next shot, Pearce waddles up to Didier Drogba, struggling to keep hold of him.
The producer then switched cameras, but then soon returned to Pearce who literally had hold of Drogba in what was almost a WWE-style headlock. He got his interview, but Drogba could say nothing of interest, unsurprisingly.
Great viewing. Well done Chelsea (you gits).
UPDATE: And hats off to Sky Sports too. After the final we turned to a bit of cricket. Ramdim had just got his fifty for the W’Indies, prompting this gem from Michael Holding: “He’s not a bad player. In fact, he’s a good player.”
Commentary gold!
ANOTHER UPDATE: See the Drogba interview here. Doesn’t quite capture the glory of the goings-on beforehand, but you’ll see the end result of Pearce’s hard graft.
Great debate going on over on Comment is Free.
Ex-footballer Jorge Valdano, has launched a bit of a rant about English football being boring and without flair.
An OK point, but he seems to base much of his opinion on the Chelsea v Liverpool semi-final last week. I say it’s unfair to give judgment on either team on that match alone. There are times when the occasion gets to players, and the football suffers. Which is why most World Cup finals are complete toss.
Anyway, in my opinion, it’s the winning that counts. Ugly football will happen from time to time, and you just have to be glad you won.
The legend that is Ian Holloway describes it best, I think:
“To put it in gentleman’s terms if you’ve been out for a night and you’re looking for a young lady and you pull one, some weeks they’re good looking and some weeks they’re not the best. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She weren’t the best looking lady we ended up taking home but she was very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much, let’s have a coffee”
Wonderful. Read more Holloway quotes on his Wikipedia page.
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