Good/bad journalists

[Cameron Manning]

The pair of them hate Everton.

Well I had many a chat with Phil McNulty when he worked for the Liverpool Echo and he was an Evertonian but without Blue tinted glasses, had a few arguments with him as well over Everton, you’d have liked him Dav. especially the arguments you’d have kept each going for hours on end, don’t know who would have won them though, he liked the last word as well !!

 

[Lanolin]

Yep he has got stuck into Moshiri several times. But it does seem that these hacks are much quicker to lay into foreigners than they are to locals who appear to be cut much more slack.

One of the problems they have is when they criticise a club some will see it as being because they hate the club, while others will see it as jumping on the bandwagon of animosity towards the club by the club's own supporters. It's a difficult tightrope to walk.

It's not just Moshiri, he openly laughs at Kenwright every time he mentions him and was extremely critical of the board (including the likes of Grantchester and Gregg) going back about 20 years.

 

[NathDogg]

Have to agree with @davek about McNulty and hunter -if they are decent and supposedly evertonians (McNulty is at least) they haven’t done anywhere near enough “honest” reporting on Everton and our ongoing issues, and they always write extra fluffy glow pieces on the murderers at least once a season. Crap.

Qweg oqweef and boyland are not journalists - they are chancers who do what they are told by that overpriced online kopite fanzine they “write” for.

They are all as morally bankrupt, in relation to Everton, as our esteemed chairman and board of directors are.

 

[PhilEFC]

I don’t think O’Keefe and the other lad can recover from the headlock incident.

To be party to throwing the fans of the club he supports under a bus based on unfounded allegations is unforgivable, and is symptom of journalism on a whole in this country where the truth shouldn’t get in the way of a good story.

 

[davek]

Have to agree with @davek about McNulty and hunter -if they are decent and supposedly evertonians (McNulty is at least) they haven’t done anywhere near enough “honest” reporting on Everton and our ongoing issues, and they always write extra fluffy glow pieces on the murderers at least once a season. Crap.

Qweg oqweef and boyland are not journalists - they are chancers who do what they are told by that overpriced online kopite fanzine they “write” for.

They are all as morally bankrupt, in relation to Everton, as our esteemed chairman and board of directors are.

I don’t think O’Keefe and the other lad can recover from the headlock incident.

To be party to throwing the fans of the club he supports under a bus based on unfounded allegations is unforgivable, and is symptom of journalism on a whole in this country where the truth shouldn’t get in the way of a good story.

They'll all be waiting in the wings biding their time to get a narrative off the ground that allows Kenwright a legacy at Everton that somehow suggests he was a force for good before the sale of the club to Moshiri. That'll be what Kenwright is hoping to get now he knows he will never be back at Everton again.

That cant be allowed to happen. Any re-writing of history must be opposed as soon as it rear's its head.

Bill Kenwright has injected poison into this club from the moment he took control 23 years ago. It's been a club he never had the means to own and because of that he placed the fate of the club in the hands of a succession of chancers like Gregg, Green, Earl and Moshiri....all to keep his profile high and cash in his pocket.

Without a shadow of a doubt he is the biggest villain in the 145 year history of Everton Football Club.

 

[davek]

Well I had many a chat with Phil McNulty when he worked for the Liverpool Echo and he was an Evertonian but without Blue tinted glasses, had a few arguments with him as well over Everton, you’d have liked him Dav. especially the arguments you’d have kept each going for hours on end, don’t know who would have won them though, he liked the last word as well !!

I wouldn't lower myself into the gutter to speak to that rat.

 

[DavidH]

Pepper Mills for the win.

 

[Cameron Manning]

I wouldn't lower myself into the gutter to speak to that rat.

That doesn’t sound like you Dav!!

 

[Charro]

Not that, he has actually been a bit of a prat to a mate of mine and then once dug out a work experience lad at a paper. For zero reason.

But he did have the decency to apologise.

He thinks very highly of himself, though.

EDIT: But most of them do. The paper ones are the worst. A lot are dead sound. Sam Wallace - really nice bloke. Ornstein - nice bloke. Dom King is friendly enough. Rory Smith seems pretty sound but then I also saw and heard him shout at catering staff because his lasagna wasn't warm enough at one of the grounds in Qatar.

Have you ever worked with Richard Buxton?

 

[StreetEndBlue]

I suppose he isn't a journo anymore but I never been able to stomach Dave 'I'm married to Dixie's granddaughter me' Prentice.

When he was at the Echo and this club lurched from one disaster to another off the pitch under Kenwright he said nothing but at the same time couldn't stop slagging off Hicks and Gillett when they were dragging Liverpool down.

I suppose his brown nosing paid off with him now having a nice cushy number at Goodison but I don't know a Blue who has a single good word to say about him. And I have no doubt he played a role in the smearing of the fans before the Southampton game.

I noticed at the game on Saturday the programme sellers were flogging his book. As if anyone is going to buy that??

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Been impressed with Phil McNulty & Andy Hunter over past few weeks/months.

They've written stuff that's torched the board's competence + hubris on a regular basis. (Admittedly maybe too late).

McNulty was putting couple of our happy clapper, apologists straight on Twitter yesterday.

Any other journos/broadcasters come out of this with any credit + haven't been propogandists for the amateurs running this s**tshow?

Never heard of the latter not heard of the others mentioned in other posts ,don't read much football journalism at all they all seem to be hangers and not very keen to wonder far off the club PR line in case they are shut out. The last football journalist i read with any conviction was Andrew Jennings now sadly passed. None since. Tends to be Everton fan stuff much more real and informative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jennings

 

[cocklord]

Not uniquely a football journalist but Simon Kuper’s articles (and books) are always brilliant.

Tim Vickery used to be good, ten years ago.

 

[tommytowne]

You think McNulty and Hunter dont hate Everton?

Maybe read their hate filled bile towards Everton?

They try their best to disguise it but there's no mistaking their mostly patronising nature of their work.
You could imagine the pair of them cosying up to one another like a pair of lounge lizards post match having a drink discussing their latest diatribes agin us.

 

[Stanley Parker]

24 May 2021; McNulty wrote: “Where do you start? Everton is a club never slow or shy of telling the world how right they get it off the field but supporters have every right to ask when they might actually deliver something on it.

13 Aug 2021 There is just one day before the new Premier League season kicks off. That means it’s prediction time. Everton finished 10th last time around and McNulty thinks they’ll end up in exactly the same place come May 2022. McNulty thinks they’ll be sandwiched in between David Moyes’ West Ham and Leeds. “It may be that Benitez’s hands-on training ground approach, allied to his renowned organisational skills and tactical acumen, will work better with this group of permanent underachievers more so than with Ancelotti’s relaxed style."

9 April 2022 Everton 1 Man Utd 0 Everton secured what could prove a priceless victory in their battle to avoid relegation as lacklustre Manchester United were beaten at Goodison Park. Frank Lampard's side were plunged into even deeper crisis when they lost at fellow strugglers Burnley in midweek to leave them facing the prospect of dropping into the bottom three this weekend if results went against them. In a game low on quality but high in tension, Everton's victory came courtesy of Anthony Gordon's 27th-minute drive, which took a heavy deflection off United captain Harry Maguire to leave keeper David de Gea wrong-footed.

1 Feb 2023 He tweeted: “Everton’s failure to sign a player in January is a catastrophic failure by the owner, the board and director of football Kevin Thelwell. This is the club that boasted about a ‘strategic review’ and ended the window weaker than when it started while lying in the relegation zone.”

13 Feb 2023 Liverpool 2 Everton 0 Everton started the Dyche era with a performance full of passion and competitive edge to stun Arsenal, but this was a reminder of why they face a serious relegation battle, and evidence that the display against the Gunners was very much the exception in this season of struggle. The absence of Dominic Calvert-Lewin, injured once more after figuring for an hour against Arsenal, underscores the folly in not signing a replacement for Richarlison, an error in the summer compounded by the failure to correct it in January.

Nothing much to argue with here.

 

[4737carlin]

Prentice is good