Mirror's Match Report

[Corky]

Those kids who insist on doing the Poznan, are making our club look ridiculously stupid.

There are far worse things they could be doing.

It's a bit of light-hearted fun.

[Shrenchel]

To be fair, it was a much more interesting read than the average dreary match report these clones churn out.

[Free Falling Foxes]

I think we may get quite a bit of this type of reporting as well as digs at us this season.

The Metro had a couple of go's at Sven on Friday. First one was his claim that he didn't know what Twitter is and in a separate article, had a go at his transfer dealings saying he had no scouts and used a copy of 2006 Football Manager! They said he signs players on a 'Didn't he used to be good?' philosophy.

[Guest Basildon Fox]

Unfortunately i buy the mirror so i suppose that makes me a leftie scumbag then.

Well done. The first step to recovery is to admit you have a problem.

[RowlattsFox]

I don't have a problem with fans or other people having a dig at us, but they shouldn't be doing it during what is supposed to be a match report.

[irDeano]

I don't have a problem with fans or other people having a dig at us, but they shouldn't be doing it during what is supposed to be a match report.

Exactly, The Mirror have an 'opinion' section for a reason. I think the majority of people would not be as bothered by this had it not been in a match report, which is meant to be impartial and fact based.

[Guest Bilo]

Unfortunately i buy the mirror so i suppose that makes me a leftie scumbag then.

As a lefty scumbag myself, I can certainly recommend better newspapers.

[ramboacdc]

As a lefty scumbag myself, I can certainly recommend better newspapers.

ive never read i is it any good? i cant stand the guardian personally. im a mirror kind of person but if theyve started hacking people too it could go the same was as NOTW.

[Guest Bilo]

It's fantastic value for 20p mate, far superior to any tabloid.

I generally buy either that or the Guardian, though I only buy the latter if I have time to sit down and read it.

[themotivator]

As a lefty scumbag myself, I can certainly recommend better newspapers.

i concur. was impressed with the 'i' that my dad bought last week. a very different approach to printed journalism and really refreshing. the guardian is obviously the best paper if you are sophisticated enough to get your tittay fix online.

[LCFCmatt]

I don't really know what this article is, looks like a half time, but has post-match comments and it says published at 10pm, but what I do know is that it looks to have been written by the biggest cvnt to ever write an article, perhaps he's a Cov fan?

"Sven, the old rascal, got lucky yet again."

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/match-centre/Coventry-City-0-0-Leicester-City-Sunday-Mirror-match-report-Lee-Peltier-gets-lucky-Sven-Goran-Eriksson-a-winning-start-after-Darius-Vassell-and-Carl-Baker-sent-off-article782315.html

Leicester could actually sue the mirror due to that disgrace.

[Guest ttfn]

Michael Calvin wrote the article. Funniest thing is, after completely slating Wellens he then gave him MOTM with 8/10.. Fernandes got 6/10.. Quality journo.

According to his biog, this guy used to be Chief Sports Writer of the Daily Telegraph.

Jesus wept.

[topharry123]

i've never read an article this bad about any club! What a badly written biased piece. Obviously he just has a problem with Leicester in general. This guy should be fired for writing such a bad article. The mirror through and through.

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

The article was, overall, only fit for the bonfire.

[accessory]

I thought it was only on the website, not in the paper itself..

[marko]

Leicester could actually sue the mirror due to that disgrace.

Really?! what would we sue them for? saying nasty things about our new found riches or the songs we sing?!

There's nothing defamatory in there.

[accessory]

Wellens may beg to differ about that. The article is basically labelling him a cheat.

[marko]

Wellens may beg to differ about that. The article is basically labelling him a cheat.

I can't see any text in the article that says Wellens is a cheat.

It would be laughed out of court.

[Joe.]

Wellens is a cheat, anybody who thinks otherwise is seeing life through rose tinted glasses.

Think it's fair to say Mr Calvin has enjoyed his fair share of abuse for the report.

[B52]

According to his biog, this guy used to be Chief Sports Writer of the Daily Telegraph.

Jesus wept.

I think even God wept... From bad to quite embarressing. A former Chiefs Sports Writer is rewriting his own work in a schoollike manner....

Link

Here is the text also. Try to see what he has rewritten.

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"When sirens warn of an impending nuclear strike, speed towards Leicester City FC, and steal the seat next to Sven-Goran Eriksson. If anyone can survive obliteration, it is the former England manager.

The Swede with the Cuban heels has an unrivalled instinct for self preservation. Things got sticky for a while, when Eriksson was taken in by fraudsters who targeted Notts County, but once again, he has fallen on his feet.

Leicester are among the nouveau riche of the Championship, a division transformed by clubs who are determined to live the dream, and damn the consequences.

Sven has had little trouble relieving the Raksriaksorn family of a slice of their fortune, acquired through tax and duty free shops in six Thai airports. He has signed eight players on unlikely wages this summer, and more are on the way to what we are now obliged to call the King Power Stadium.

The new owners want a Premier League brand for their money, which has helped install Leicester as 11-8 favourites to go up. Eriksson is used to living with pressure, but has to prove he understands his environment.

He’s suited to such occasions as Saturday’s sell-out friendly against Real Madrid, rather than a midweek visit to Barnsley in the depths of winter. The urgency and physicality of Championship football will require extensive local knowledge.

Sven is a hands-off coach who will rely heavily on his assistant Derek Fazackerley – who worked with him at Manchester City after a successful spell at Blackburn. True to character, he will help Leicester to build from the back.

They have bought an entire defence, Kasper Schmeichel playing behind John Paintsil, Sean St Ledger, former Reading captain Matt Mills, and Paul Konchesky, whose outspoken Mum effectively ended his Liverpool career.

Lower division experience comes in the form of Lee Peltier and Neil Danns, while the priority is to find a partner for David Nugent up front.

It looks like a team designed to get out of the division, rather than one which will flourish in the Premier League. But, then, Sven has never had any issue about rebuilding, from a position of strength.

The old rascal might have lucked in, yet again."

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[accessory]

Wellens is a cheat, anybody who thinks otherwise is seeing life through rose tinted glasses.

Think it's fair to say Mr Calvin has enjoyed his fair share of abuse for the report.

That's a very brave statement to make, especially from a writer and blogger of your experience.

He may have exaggerated his reaction to Carl Baker's challenge on Saturday, but he didn't fake it, any more than Keogh did to Vassell's challenge previously (which curiously went reported by Calvin).

It is one thing to criticise Wellens for his limitations as a footballer (I do it myself on a fairly regular basis, as other threads will show). But querying his integrity is a more serious matter, and might in other circumstances attract legal interest.

[Ali_Mauchlens_Tash]

and might in other circumstances attract legal interest.

It's not "other circumstances" though is it. It's a game of football.

I regularly question a referee's integrity....doesn't mean he should be hauled up in front of a judge every other week.

I'm sure Wellens is a big enough man to accept the odd bit of critism. Personally I don't care whether it was exagerrated or not...If it was, then it worked. It regularly appears that a ref is more likely to send off a player for a 'not so bad' challenge if he has already set a precedence with an opossing player, why not take advantage of that...other teams would!

[Head Honcho]

Read two reports yesterday one being this one and they were both pretty scathing of the club.

Also the Mirror has Reading to beat us next week on their pools thingymajig.

Could be something to do with the amount of sports journos that support West Ham

.................although Calvin is a Watford fan!

[Guest Bilo]

I read another article on the Mirror website by Michael Calvin that shows he supports Watford.

“I hope you die slowly of bad AIDS.”

Apparently this gobbet of bile, sent to my home ­computer by a so-called ­supporter, qualifies as ­football banter.

The abuse is anonymous, and it is getting worse.

Some is so vile as to be ­unrepeatable.

It is aimed at anyone who has the temerity to express an informed opinion or a legitimate loyalty to a cause.

It is directed at players, managers, club owners. The rules of common ­decency do not seem to apply.

Football is becoming a hateful game, hijacked by bullies in the name of “the fans” and free speech.

It seethes with anger, envy and contempt, feeds off a warped sense of entitlement. Message boards and ­phone-ins encourage the emotionally incontinent.

Mob rule may be fashionable, but it cannot be allowed to determine who will ­manage our biggest clubs.

Owners like Aston Villa’s Randy Lerner have the right to make their own mistakes without answering to ­exhibitionists whose protests pander to the lowest common denominator.

I know I’m going to get more stick for this, so I’ll make myself clear.

I am not talking about 99 per cent of fans, decent people who have a deeply personal commit­ment to their club. They are entitled to a strong and ­strident voice.

I am not taking issue with those who ­disagree loudly and lucidly with the views of ­people like me.

Platforms like this are a ­privilege, and criticism comes with the ­territory.

I am certainly not referring to organisations like the ­Football Supporters’ ­Federation, ­important ­advocates for a group taken for granted by the game’s grandees.

Public pressure is vital, if ­applied responsibly.

Reaction to the Premier League’s withdrawal of ­funding from Supporters ­Direct, because of cretinous comments by its former chief executive, has been so universally negative the ­decision will be quietly ­reversed.

At club level, Liverpool’s ­Justice for the 96 campaign is inspirational. Brighton fans, looking ­forward to a new ­season in a new stadium, have kept alive their club in exile.

There are too many similar examples to mention.

But those who excuse ­vandalism and vigilante ­action have to be challenged.

MUST’s anti-Glazer ­movement was undermined when the home of Manchester United chief ­executive David Gill was targeted.

Similarly, opponents of Alex McLeish’s installation at Villa Park were belittled by ­buffoons, who daubed ­slogans across the entrance to the training ground.

Assorted idiots, issuing death threats, should make Birmingham chairman Peter Pannu reconsider his ­rabble-rousing.

Lerner has ploughed ­millions into an investment he is apparently beginning to regret.

Panicked into ­rejecting Steve McClaren, he at least didn’t make the same ­mistake twice.

If Villa fans don’t agree with him, they have a ­simple option: don’t turn up.

I have the utmost respect for those United fans who refuse to subsidise the ­Glazers by buying Old ­Trafford tickets. Their ­allegiance is restricted to ­attending away games.

Tribal rivalries shape ­modern football. They are often illogical.

I bear no malice against Luton Town, but as a Watford fan, I instinctively refer to them as “The Scum”.

But seeing it ­written down in black and white is faintly embarrassing.

Almost as embarrassing as Alex Horne, the office clerk who is supposedly running the FA.

He patronisingly ­suggested selling the FA Cup to ­Budweiser would be “great for the fans”. Why? How?

Look around. Good people at all levels of the game are under siege.

Rage and ­recrimination are setting the agenda.

The silent majority needs to find a voice, and say that enough is enough.

Thus making him the most embarrassing Watford fan since the Shirty Thirty pitched up here last season.

[Ali_Mauchlens_Tash]

A lot of contradictory, hypocritical stuff there. Does he even know what he thinks himself??