(usual disclaimer: The Mirror sacked me and 26 other people two weeks before Xmas a few years ago leaving a team of four. They’ve since sacked the rest of the team, leaving one person to cover a country in the UK with 5million people)
Anyway, the Daily Mirror is launching a new football website and there’s a blurb there about what it’s going to have, which is all fine and fair enough. And it’s early days, but what’s there that will grate on a few Scotsmen?
- Is it the lack of Scottish pictures? (They couldn’t even put one up?)
- Is the the lack of mention of the first UK team to lift the top European trophy?
- Or is it a shot from 1966 and the build-up to that game?
Actually, what I think annoys me most is the writing on it – there’s not one mention of Scottish achievements or even a hint that the Scottish clubs will be mentioned and the pictures updated. The text implies that it’s covering one Premiership in one country and it isn’t Scotland, Northern Ireland or Wales.
Anyone know? I’m sure they are going to have Scottish stuff but would be nice to know…and let’s be honest, the Old Firm fans (and the others) will fork out if there are some nice shots to be bought.
And, will there be a tidy iPhone app to go along with it?
Considering the utter contempt and disregard shown by Trinity Mirror for the readers and staff of the Daily Record and Sunday Mail (not to mention their jeopardising of the very future of those papers) by their recent damaging, mindless devastation of the newsroom (with the full complicity of senior editorial staff), sadly this latest Daily Mirror indignity barely merits a raised eyebrow.
It’s not just the Scottish readers. Given the money invested by Trinity Mirror in this Titanic of a website, the question should be what impact will it have on the football coverage of the regionals across England and the Scottish titles.
Celtic beat Liverpool and Blackburn in the uefa cup run, and even when they won the comentators claimed the English teams were better, so no wonder they always claim any English win is men against bhoys, and they claim not to be anti scottish