Reasons for hating Andy Naylor.

[Timbo]

Is this aimed at him as a journalist or as a person?

If it is as a journalist I think 'not wanting to play football with me when we were kids' is a very odd reason. As is supporting Stoke City.

I think he does a superb job. Football is all about opinions, sometimes people say things to you about a game and you think 'are you mad?'. But it's your opinion and theirs, we can't all have the same.

It must be very difficult filling the back page every day about a club where very little happens. Yet he has to because the Albion sells an awful lot of papers for them.

 

[Safeway]

Had a major run-in with him a couple of years back afte the fans forum, when Martin Perry announced that Falmer would be built in one go and Naylor decided to dedicated the headline and three quaters of the article to Dick Knight admitting that Hinshelwood probably wasn't the best choice for manager in hindsight.

Found both him and his boss Simon Bradshaw to be extremely arrogant, Bradshaw at one point telling me to "grow up", but I supoose that's all part of being a journo.

As for the match reports, I've always found them very readable and not affected by the fact Naylor isn't actually an Albion fan. He actually denied being a Stoke fan in one email, pointing out that Gordon Banks was merely his favourite player as a child.

 

[The Large One]

Don't know about that, TLO. I was at the Chesterfield game too and I thought it was a clear yellow card. I had absolutely no complaints about the yellow, nor did the people I was with.

Are you talking about his first or second yellow? First one was fair enough, second was was terrible. I do remember it clearly, and it was a non-tackle that Oatway was trying to get out of the way of.

I think Naylor's all right as journalist (don't know what you mean when you say he's a reporter not a journalist - that's just nonsense) but he certainly seems to be lacking in human skills; he certainly doesn't make friends easily.

I would have thought that of all people, you would know the difference between a reporter and a journalist. And The Argus don't employ journalists. At least they didn't when I was there - they're too expensive. They would be off somewhere else - to a national or a magazine, not staying at a provincial newspaper.

 

[Dover]

Like most tabloid journolists I have met, he will always take the easy option for a story, rather than complete any investigation.

If I wish to read a synopsis of the game on Sunday morning, we are very lucky to have supporters who write for quality newspapers, and put some passion into thier work.

 

[Comedy Steve]

Simon Bradshaw

 

[Albionite83]

The points out of ten system he uses for performance annoys me too, if we won it would be 7 each except for the scorer who got 8, if we lost it would be 6 each,if a player got sent off or substituted ,he would knock off another point even if they were the best player on the pitch or wrongly sent off.
I have written to the Argus letters page on a few occasions about him but the letters never get printed.

I'm not quite sure what anyone has to do to score lower than 6 out of 10. And why doesn't the Sports Argus include any letters?

 

[dougdeep]

Today's Argus headline was:-

I never wanted to leave Albion. Why wasn't it:-
I didn't want to leave the Albion?

It would still have fitted, and would have been better English. I know I'm a pedant but not being called THE Albion really bugs me.

 

[Brovion]

Today's Argus headline was:-

I never wanted to leave Albion. Why wasn't it:-
I didn't want to leave the Albion?

It would still have fitted, and would have been better English. I know I'm a pedant but not being called THE Albion really bugs me

Ah, but that's just general newspaper shorthand, the definite article, along with pronouns, are endangered species. Most newspapers, especally tabloids, would say "Actor Hugh Grant and former girlfriend Elizabeth Hurley" instead of "THE actor Hugh Grant and HIS former girlfriend Elizabeth Hurley". Gives it an almost Germanic feel, or even Japanese. In Japanese language, no articles.

 

[Biscuit]

How did I miss this thread...Its marvellous!