UPDATE - Sorry just seen, applies for the first year.
Any Athletic subscribers, would you recommend?
UPDATE - Sorry just seen, applies for the first year.
Any Athletic subscribers, would you recommend?
For that price - yes.
For the actual price - no.
In short: the Albion stuff is average and often feels like Naylor doesn't have the content to fill a daily story (pre-lockdown there was a bunch of long-form pieces with his old mates from the DK era). Wider football stuff is great though and there is plenty of it.
Thanks. I think I'll jump in for a year.
I hope there's a way (as with some subscriptions) that I can pay for the year but then effectively cancel the ongoing subscription immediately, so that in a year's time I don't get auto-billed when I inevitably forget to cancel in time. If anyone knows if this is possible/necessary please let me know.
You absolutely can - I've just done this!
In a browser (doesn't work in the app) got to Your Account > Cancel Subscription > Click [Do not want to auto-renew] and Cancel Subscription. The message "Your subscription has been cancelled. You'll still be able to access content until Mon December 21st, 2020." (Obviously a different date for yourself) will appear.
The story on Ben White today is worth a read simply because it suggests there are only three potential teams he could play for next season......us, Chelsea and Liverpool. The Yorkshire minnows don't even get a mention.
Actually on the subject of the Yorkshire minnows the comments section on that article does suggest they aren't all the same and they do have some half sensible fans.
I thought that article was a bit odd, goes on about how good White is, but then says his best option is to go back to Leeds because he knows the system. Don't think the author knows much about Brighton, saying its hard to see a clear fit for him at Brighton.
To be fair from a purely guaranteed football perspective he probably is better doing that. Guaranteed starter every week whereas I’m not sure he has that with us or anyone else.
Leeds won’t pay enough so its a bit immaterial but just judging it solely on playing time it would be the best place.
For that price - yes.
For the actual price - no.
In short: the Albion stuff is average and often feels like Naylor doesn't have the content to fill a daily story (pre-lockdown there was a bunch of long-form pieces with his old mates from the DK era). Wider football stuff is great though and there is plenty of it.
I have no idea why you expect him to be filing a daily story. The whole ethos of the Athletic, when they launched their UK football section, was that the pieces would be long-form, and very different from the output of a journalist on a typical local daily newspaper. Maybe a couple of pieces a week, at most. Certainly not a daily article.