It shames all of us when this nonsense is printed.
Working on the sports desk, we are the dinosaurs of the industry, for one simple fact: you can't make up sports results.
The rest of the paper can be full of
showbiz garbage, made up to please celebrity PRs (that's the only way
to gain access to these people most of the time) or political opinion
(always biased one way or another).
But sport is sacrosanct. We treat it seriously, because we know the readers do.
As the industry changes, and newspapers get swallowed up by the internet, we are the last of a dying breed.
Save that last bit up for my obituary on DSR in 30 years' time!
