Take a Wrist, Andy: How Murray Can Come Back Stronger
10/02/2009
I recently graduated with an English degree from Cambridge and have been looking at journalism among other things as I try to settle on a first full-time job. I have always loved sport, whether playing, watching or reading about it, so the chance to combine the two seems ideal! I shall enjoy contributing and reading whatever I end up doing with my life.
I have played, watched and enjoyed a huge variety of sports over the last 15 years, with cricket and rugby my all-round favourites. I have graced - or more often trampled across - the field of play in football, squash, tennis, badminton, ultimate frisbee, water polo, athletics and petanque, while I go TV-mad at Olympics time and hope my rare bouts of illness line up with the Winter Olympics or some snooker from the Crucible.
If you like my stories, have a look at my sports blog, launching September 2009: http://row-zed.blogspot.com/
My first syndication! Although they did mess the title up big time:
http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/9517294/Referee-the-big-winner-in-Barcleona-Chelsea-clash
Dont Know if yu follow or cricket or not,but you may find this intresting!
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/267197-a-look-at-crickets-oscars
51 days ago
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/265637-13-years-but-arsene-wenger-journey-still-on
Give a read!
55 days ago
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/265164-arsenal-all-time-dream-xi
On Your advice i have put the all time chairman too!
55 days ago
I've done an internship @ Goal & I'm on Bleacher as an editor (again, on an internship)...
I actually work at the NHS on their management training scheme, but I also do a bit of work for Goal...I'll send you a message about that though...
86 days ago
No problem...if you don't mind me asking, are you working for anyone at the moment?
86 days ago
Sure, no problem. By the way, you look a bit like Stuart Board ...
202 days ago
I hear what you're saying and I do appreciate you taking the time to give me feedback as it is my goal to better myself.
I urge you to be as harsh as you can in the future, how else are we to learn from our mistakes?
The practical solutions you speak of do sound quite promising, I'm aware that the management is going to be making a few changes to the system as to benefit the writers in general.
Let me borrow a comment from your article, shall I?
Interesting plans, but like the current system....people will find it's flaws and exploit them.
You see the problem with the "upgrade" in writer rankings is wherever a change is made, you can satisfy both parties in most cases.
On a website filled with writers of different opinions and different standings on whether or not the system is fine or flawed, you will not always have everyone agreeing with how things are done.
With that said, I am not nor do I have an intention to become a peace maker but I'm merely saying that what a change might bring is not a sense of fairness to all but an illusion of fairness to some.
Once again, thanks for the feedback.
We may not see eye to eye on this matter and if we did, I might have not become a fan. :)
205 days ago
I think the Tigers will need some wholesale changes if we survive for another season in the Premiership. Our goal keepers are pretty good with Myhill in goals and Duke as back up, but in defence we have some problems.
Turner has been a revelation this season and I think it may be difficult to keep hold of him. I suspect that one of the top 6 will try to sign him during the summer. However, if Gardner can remain fit for longer that 15 minutes he will make a good pairing with Zayette. Ricketts and Dawson are good back ups but as LB and RB they are just not good enough for the Premiership. So we would need to bring in another centre back if Turner leaves and new left and right back. Kilbane is not good enough and getting slower every game it seems and Ricketts back up of Doyle is still too young and naive. Mendy is very good going forward but if you have to rely on him to defend it's not good.
In the midfield we have serious problems, and we have been found wanting for the second half of the season. Our captain Ashbee is determined and his effort can't be questioned but he is no Patrick Vieri or Owen Hargreaves. Bullard was bought in January but has been injured ever since and although he is supposed to be fit for the start of next season I think he will be crocked all the time. Boateng is too old and too slow, Geovanni has had too many spats with Phil Brown and I can't see him staying. Garcia, Halmosi (both forwards but can't score) and Marney are just not good enough at this level. Fagan (also a striker but can't score) is pretty aggressive and applies himself well and is always useful. So in summery the whole of the midfield with the exception of Fagan needs to be changed.
In attack we have Cousin, Barmby, Featherstone and Manucho (on loan from Manchester United). Cousin is very good and is worth keeping as is Barmby if he can be patched up but he can't playy more than an hour every other game. Manucho needs a foil to play off and he hasn't got that yet with anyone, and I'm not sure he ever will with our style of play. Featherstone is a young kid that hasn't really got a chance yet as the manager has (I am sure) not felt he is quite ready for hte Premiership.
So in summary Myhill, Turner, Zayette, Ashbee, Fagan, Geovanni and Cousin should be kept for the first team. Duke, Ricketts, Dawson, Garcia, as back ups, Barmby, Bullard and Gardner if they can remain fit will be useful as squad players.
Two or three defenders, four more midfielders and at least three forwards.
However, if we go down then most of the squad we have apart for the old and crocked will be okay for the Championship.
205 days ago
The Great Debate is back!
This time it looks at the current buzzwords: Joey. Barton. What are your views on it? Does he deserve to play football again? Has he used up all his chances? Was it right that he was suspended? Check it out, I think this is one of the best Great Debates yet!
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/168439-the-great-debate-joey-barton-prison-or-passion
Cheers,
Barney
205 days ago
Thanks for the compliment in ref to my writing.
What I don't have in litarary skills I hope I make up for with passion for sports, in particular my team Hull City. That was if you hadn't guessed.
I think I am at a disadvantage in comparison to some of the other writer in the World Football and EPL sections in so far as I support and write about a small team with very few followers on the site.
The first few months were particularly hard to get noticed, in a sea of Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool fans that tended not to read articles about the other clubs.
I have slowly and surely broken them with my shear determination to stand up for my team.
That article about Liverpool was written straight after watching the game and feeling a tad bitter about the whole sorry affair. I'm usually quite measured in my outlook about football in general but at times I think you need to vent your spleen, so to speak.
I've also tried to keep some of my Northern-ness in my writing style. I think it gives my a different feel for the reader. I could write the same as everyone else but I think it adds a little colour to the articles.
205 days ago
Ed, I constantly get around the two hundred read mark for articles I write but I recently ran an article with a more inflamatory headline.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/162027-hull-city-raped-by-12-man-liverpool
It is nearer the 800 mark now.
The gutter press works unfortunately. Haha
205 days ago
Great Debate: Bronze Medal
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I've just written an new article, can you take a look for me and let me know what you think. Thanks mate.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/295673-jimmy-bullard-the-spark-in-hull-citys-engine
3 days ago