Charlton's PR consultants have been clearly been hard at work, placing a piece in Kent Live giving seven reasons why 'sleeping giant' Charlton could win automatic promotion: Seven reasons
Much of the article is a hymn of praise for Karl Robinson who emerges as possibly the best manager in English football since Sir Alex Ferguson. The OTT tone of the piece is illustrated by the claim that Charlton have 'strength in depth'. Clearly evident up front.
I could come up with seven reasons while Roland Duchatelet remains a ****.
"The owner is behind the boss" also made me snigger. They determine this because Robinson hasn't been sacked yet. To be fair he is nearing a long service medal for one year in post. The fact he hasn't been sacked yet is because wooden top has finally realised, after seven sackings in short order that he's wasting money paying off one manager after another, especially when he doesn't really care too much about results.
ReplyDeleteKeep seeing these articles “ five reasons why....” etc. Perhaps the PR’s might graduate to Politics. I can see it now ...” Five reasons why the letters fell of the set at the Tory Party Conference” or “”Five reasons why Boris Johnson should recite Kipling’s The Road to Mandalay when visiting a Temple in Myanmar!”
ReplyDeleteFive reasons why ...Boris is the man to lead us singing to the sunny uplands...in between acting the buffoon and backstabbing his colleagues..
ReplyDeletePresumably the “sunny uplands” are to be found at Cockfosters !
DeleteI've noticed these five reasons why or seven reasons why articles. I think it's a form of lazy journalism when the number of hacks available to fill the available space is constantly declining. There are endless possibilities: five reasons why South-Eastern can't provide a proper service, five reasons why Ryaniar don't care about their customers etc. (although in that case one would probably do).
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DeleteJust needed to correct the deleted post Wyn ...agree with your comments. We mustn’t be too hard on the PR guys since no real harm done unlike the recently demised Bell Pottinger. In the case of Ryanair you need to add the word “all.”
DeleteDamn PR total waste of space and has Groome got anything to do with this bunch of shite
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