Joe. Posted 15 May 2009 Posted 15 May 2009 Just an unbiased view would have been enough for me Yeah don't get me wrong, I never read the Mockery anymore because it's so excruciatingly rose-tinted towards our club, but I doubt whoever fills his shoes will change much to be honest.
davieG Posted 15 May 2009 Author Posted 15 May 2009 However much everybody disliked him, I can't imagine the Mockery would allow him to put across too much of a strong opinion anyway. It's them that has to keep people happy to maintain a 'relationship' with the club at the end of the day... Blatantly dishonest as well especially re Mandaric's take-over and the continual quoting of the purchase price as £25mill even after the details had been published at Companies House and circulated on the web. I sent him an email asking him to justify his continued stance on this in spite of the evidence but never got the courtesy of an acknowledgement never mind an explanation.
Cat Burger Posted 15 May 2009 Posted 15 May 2009 He's not a Spurs fan, I happen to know who he supports and they are an East Midlands club who wear red.
Zingari Posted 15 May 2009 Posted 15 May 2009 i always thought Bill was a Dunfermline fan or something ( or some other minor scottish club )
Webbo Posted 15 May 2009 Posted 15 May 2009 New fella supposed to be Glenn Stewart, been on the radio, never heard him but toild he winds everyone up? The guy is a total gobshite. They're saying on TB it's a fella named Steve Pumfrey.
anotherwin Posted 15 May 2009 Posted 15 May 2009 Now that is good news, I hated his excuse for journalism; he is a total snob, always slagging off the fans if they deigned to criticise any manager, I bet he never paid to watch a football match in his life. Freeloading knob Good riddance is what I say
davieG Posted 15 May 2009 Author Posted 15 May 2009 i always thought Bill was a Dunfermline fan or something ( or some other minor scottish club ) Hearts I believe The guy is a total gobshite. They're saying on TB it's a fella named Steve Pumfrey. He already does some of the reports usually the on the terrace crap!
Joe. Posted 15 May 2009 Posted 15 May 2009 There must be some competent journalist to take over surely? It seems all you have to do to hold onto a job at the mockery is write 400-500 words stating the obvious based around a few generic, predictable quotes.
smudger63 Posted 15 May 2009 Posted 15 May 2009 Goodbye biased bill, you wont be missed by the people you loved to slag off, Leicester City fans.
Ultra Posted 16 May 2009 Posted 16 May 2009 They're saying on TB it's a fella named Steve Pumfrey. He's been deputy for the last two years, so that would make sense. Don't know if he's a City fan, though.
Ultra Posted 16 May 2009 Posted 16 May 2009 However much everybody disliked him, I can't imagine the Mockery would allow him to put across too much of a strong opinion anyway. It's them that has to keep people happy to maintain a 'relationship' with the club at the end of the day... The paper's first duty is to its readers. If the club don't like what is published then tough luck. I hope the new guy understands that. Anderson never did.
Thracian Posted 16 May 2009 Posted 16 May 2009 :thumbsup: What a wonderful 24 hours this has been. First Leeds fcuk up in the playoffs, then this. Nice one And Thracian, if you're reading this, go for it! It's nice of you and others to suggest it but I don't think the editor of the Leicester Mercury would welcome my application, even though I started my career with the Mercury and served as sports editor of their Loughborough Monitor weekly during part of those early years, a job I thoroughly enjoyed as it happens. Nor for that matter would Leicester City be best pleased, having banned me from the press box for something along the lines of compromising the status of the Official Site when I was editor of Vital Football's Leicester City site. Besides no bloke of my age would have a chance of landing the job. In truth it is probably best suited for a much younger person who is reliable, articulate and has been a fan since the time he could walk. And if anyone on here fits the criteria, send off your application (if it's not too late) although you'll also, doubtless need a university degreee and to have had formal journalistic training (though why that should be I fail to understand). The Mercury have had decent football writers. Lawrie Simpkin and Jimmy Martin had excellent, reputations during my time on the Mercury and Bill Anderson clearly had something, if only a thick enough skin to survive 35 years in the job. My own path only crossed Anderson's briefly and it's no secret I didn't like him so I won't be hypocritcal and say I'll miss him. I'll just look forward to reading what the new man (or woman, as may well be the case in Harriet Harman's Britain) has to say and and hope it makes a refreshing change. But yes, the last 24 hours have come as a nice surprise.
Thracian Posted 16 May 2009 Posted 16 May 2009 i always thought Bill was a Dunfermline fan or something ( or some other minor scottish club ) He sometimes wore a Hearts cap if I'm not mistaken.
Corky Posted 16 May 2009 Posted 16 May 2009 Hearts and Spurs. Surely Derby as well? They like working with Leicester City
Joe. Posted 16 May 2009 Posted 16 May 2009 Nor for that matter would Leicester City be best pleased, having banned me from the press box for something along the lines of compromising the status of the Official Site when I was editor of Vital Football's Leicester City site. You get to be in the press box for being Vital Football editor?! Pffft, I should have been informed of this.
Thracian Posted 16 May 2009 Posted 16 May 2009 You get to be in the press box for being Vital Football editor?! Pffft, I should have been informed of this. I don't think it was an established privilege but, at the time, some clubs were quite sympathetic to bona fide e-journalists applying for press box facilities. My view was that, as I probably wrote more words about City than Anderson at the time, especially considering Academy and reserves team matches, I had as much right to press box facilities as he did.
flanimal Posted 16 May 2009 Posted 16 May 2009 Anderson was such a duffer. I used to wonder what the hell he was talking about half the time, had to check twice to make sure it was City, because he seemed to be plucking sycophantic nonsense out of his shit-don't-stink farts!
PAULCFC Posted 16 May 2009 Posted 16 May 2009 The bit where he says in the Mercury tonite........Were you watching the same game.Just about sums him up for me
Ultra Posted 17 May 2009 Posted 17 May 2009 I don't think it was an established privilege but, at the time, some clubs were quite sympathetic to bona fide e-journalists applying for press box facilities.My view was that, as I probably wrote more words about City than Anderson at the time, especially considering Academy and reserves team matches, I had as much right to press box facilities as he did. Can't remember the last time he did a report on a reserves or youth team match. I suspect he thought it was beneath him to attend those fixtures..
iancognito Posted 17 May 2009 Posted 17 May 2009 Can't remember the last time he did a report on a reserves or youth team match. I suspect he thought it was beneath him to attend those fixtures.. Well, he was the senior football writer for the Mercury, they have plenty of other staffers to do that sort of thing. If they'd appointed me to be senior reporter I'd tell them to bollocks if they then asked me to travel the country reporting on the kids and the stiffs too. That's like asking Philip Green to stack the shelves at BHS. It's a shame that Richard Broadbent buggered off to the Times a couple of years ago, his reports were always a better read. Instead it looks like we might get Steve (Brackets) Pumfrey, a man who would write a more concise (compact, to the point) article if he stopped (ceased, desisted) explaining himself in brackets after every sentence. That said, if Pumfrey's the deputy, what have Paul Jones and Graham Melton been doing at the rag for all these years? Surely they'd want a crack at the top job after 20 odd years service?
Thracian Posted 17 May 2009 Posted 17 May 2009 Well, he was the senior football writer for the Mercury, they have plenty of other staffers to do that sort of thing. If they'd appointed me to be senior reporter I'd tell them to bollocks if they then asked me to travel the country reporting on the kids and the stiffs too. That's like asking Philip Green to stack the shelves at BHS.It's a shame that Richard Broadbent buggered off to the Times a couple of years ago, his reports were always a better read. Why should reporting such matches be considered beneath someone? First, to be absolutely fair, I have seen Bill Anderson at the occasional reserves game. But surely any chief football writer for a particular club should wish to become as expert as possible on every aspect of that organisation so that he's properly equipped to comment on every eventuality. Knowing the reserves players/Academy players and the respective staff of those teams would certainly be important to me. But then I'd never consider any task beneath me. If a job needs doing in any organisation and you are prepared to do it then you're likely to be a more valuable asset than someone who won't.
lcfcadam Posted 17 May 2009 Posted 17 May 2009 Bit that made me laugh was in the Mercury 'Champions Special'. And I quote Bill Anderson: Great start, great finish, an unbeatable combination which saw Leicester City, as their anthem goes, prove Simply The Best, as they clinched the League One title with room to spare. That's a new one to me...
flanimal Posted 17 May 2009 Posted 17 May 2009 Yeah yeah. Liverpool have 'You'll Never Walk Alone'... Man Utd have 'Glory Glory'.... and we have 'Simply the Best'. Where have you been?!
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