Martin Samuel

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Thought this was a nice bit on our title season extracted from an article praising Brighton this year:

"The season Leicester City won the league, there came a time when it had to stop being written up as a shock.

By the end, there was nothing miraculous about Leicester, really, nothing random at all. True, the event itself was unforeseeable, but once it was under way, certainly by February when they beat Liverpool 2-0 then went to Manchester City and won 3-1, Leicester were the best team in the country. Leicester are going to win the league sounds outlandish; the best team in the country winning it, doesn’t. Leicester won by ten clear points that year. Sustaining such exceptionalism has proved harder."
 
Wow. Finally some hack has worked it out. Not we were lucky. Not the fact they keep peddling that none of the BCC’s turned up. None of the nonsense that Hazard won it for us or we only just won it. Finally the truth.
As for Brighton I truly hope they win the cup this season. They’ve never won a thing and have never been in Europe. Let’s hope this is their year.
 
channys6thswan said:
Samuel catches up with 2016 reality seven years later. I wonder if it will take him an equally long time to finally see through the smoke and mirrors of the little notepad magician.
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I've always quite liked Samuel, but his piece the other week on the sacking of Rodgers was incredibly lazy as well as deeply patronising. He basically argued that we should have stuck with Rodgers despite sliding inexorably towards relegation because: a) he won the FA cup; b) he wasn't given any money; and c) a club of our size was lucky to have him and will never do better.

Just the same old meaningless clichés you'd expect to hear on TalkSport. I expected a bit more of Samuel.
 
But unfortunately he isn't on his own journalism today is rubbish it focuses on
no play just a team that suits there particular support of a team


Most of the write as though there is only team playing and forget it takes two teams to make a match of it, its become Inclusive to the big boys, bullshit in its extreme
 
Since he has joined the Times he appears to have become an expert on everything not only sport but other issues too.
A recent article on motor racing for example appeared to be both superficial and ill informed as you don't get a wholly
accurate view of the sport just watching Drive to Survive
 
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