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Mitten is actually a parody of himself these days.

He’s either talking about attending the absolutely massive ‘Porcupine Derby’ in Eastern Azerbaijan or reminiscing about sharing a slush ice with Luke Chadwick in Tanzania.

Who's reading all this Sport?

I couldn't give a £#%&! for most of it.

Apparently Klopp has invented this new thing called ‘full-backs’. Sounds crazy.

Originally Posted by Ethers

Mitten is actually a parody of himself these days.

He’s either talking about attending the absolutely massive ‘Porcupine Derby’ in Eastern Azerbaijan or reminiscing about sharing a slush ice with Luke Chadwick in Tanzania.

Originally Posted by Cream

Who's reading all this Sport?

I couldn't give a £#%&! for most of it.

Who needs to read a match report now every game is on the tv for you to see yourself? The rest is gossip and some herbert’s opinion for clicks. Sports journalism is worthless and defunct.

Originally Posted by Ethers

Mitten is actually a parody of himself these days.

He’s either talking about attending the absolutely massive ‘Porcupine Derby’ in Eastern Azerbaijan or reminiscing about sharing a slush ice with Luke Chadwick in Tanzania.

Originally Posted by Hands of Scone

Who needs to read a match report now every game is on the tv for you to see yourself? The rest is gossip and some herbert’s opinion for clicks. Sports journalism is worthless and defunct.

See, you are capable of talking sense.

Originally Posted by Jammy Dodger

See, you are capable of talking sense.

Maybe you are capable of recognising it occassionlly. But seeing as you agree I’m off to reconsider my point of view

Originally Posted by Hands of Scone

Who needs to read a match report now every game is on the tv for you to see yourself? The rest is gossip and some herbert’s opinion for clicks. Sports journalism is worthless and defunct.

Backing up what Jammy has said, the only problem with this post is that the bolded word is redundant.

46 lay-offs, can’t blame falling advertising revenues.

Originally Posted by Chris Quayd

46 lay-offs, can’t blame falling advertising revenues.

Maybe it's the fact their football coverage is terrible. Michael Cox wrote an article the other day about how poor Keane was in Turin in 99.

Originally Posted by Chris Quayd

46 lay-offs, can’t blame falling advertising revenues.

I thought this was going to be a game changer?

Originally Posted by Switching Off

Maybe it's the fact their football coverage is terrible. Michael Cox wrote an article the other day about how poor Keane was in Turin in 99.

8% of their total staff though it seems all from from their US Sports departments. That Cox article was embarassing, showed his true colours in the comments, begrudgingly said Keane was a "very good player", surprised he didn't follow it up with Zidane had an alright touch.

Feel a bit for the United journos, clearly being forced to crank out article after article, they had an interview recently with the kid who had the Rooney sign on his debut

Originally Posted by elhombre

I thought this was going to be a game changer?

In fairness they probably couldn't have anticipated having literally no sport to write about

Originally Posted by Switching Off

Maybe it's the fact their football coverage is terrible. Michael Cox wrote an article the other day about how poor Keane was in Turin in 99.

Brendan O'Neill has a football equivalent, evidently

Cancelled my auto renew the other week.. not saying I’m responsible for the lay offs but I just can’t be arsed reading 99% of it when twitter accounts nick the best bits.

Job cuts are all in US

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.p...ut-staff%3famp

Got a year in the black friday deal or something... maybe it was like £20?

The interviews are ok, the recent one with hererroh being an example.... but yeah, not a chance i'd be paying full price for it.

It's hard to think of many news sites that have made the paywall work. Not sure why they keep trying it to be honest. This was doomed from the start.

Originally Posted by Lok

It's hard to think of many news sites that have made the paywall work.

Maybe the FT? Only one I can think of

Originally Posted by Lok

It's hard to think of many news sites that have made the paywall work. Not sure why they keep trying it to be honest. This was doomed from the start.

You have to have a very niche and respected offering, led by the highest quality journalism.

Neither of which, I would imagine, is offered by the Athletic.