Overeducated sports writers log

[mixed_biscuits]

Every gruniad football journalist has a photocopy of "Ozymandias" and "Ulysses" taped to their monitor.

The worst thing about the pretentious writers is that they distort reality to fit their precious conceits, so reading them is not just a laborious exercise in parsing the purple prose but disinformative. It's just not true that Southgate cast off his strait-laced shackles.

 

[Ian Scuffling]

https://www.thestranger.com/sports/2023/06/07/79024802/the-ghost-of-socialism-in-the-2023-nba-finals

 

[Corpsey]

Just read this article and thought by the end this is good I must scroll up to find out who wrote it

Turns out it was Jonathan Liew, who I've previously considered an overeducated sports writer berk of the highest order

Hocker has last laugh after Kerr and Ingebrigtsen’s tiresome war of words | Jonathan Liew

You may have been led to believe that this 1500m final was a two-man showdown. We apologise for any confusion

www.theguardian.com

Jonathan, as on overeducated berk, you may be reading this forum—if so, I bow before you as the now dust-statused desert people did before Ozymandias