Friday, May 18, 2012

Note to SkySports.com: This is not news

Posted by Hogger On July - 19 - 2010

I can understand how it happens. Writing a ‘Transfer Clockwatch’ for 15 or so hours a day, seven days a week is bound to take its toll. You become hungry for anything resembling a story. The smallest nugget of information is mined to the greatest possible extent as you look to a pad out a credit-crunched transfer window.

Today, however, SkySports.com reached its nadir, when announcing that Mario Balotelli will not be be signing for Manchester City today.

Presumably they’ll be running this story tomorrow. And the day after. And every day until Balotelli eventually signs for City, joining the Premier League’s grumpiest pack of strikers.

I don’t know if they gave it the full yellow ticker treatment on their TV channel. Considering they did just that for the news that Francis Jeffers was due to train with Blackpool, there’s every chance they did.

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3 Responses to “Note to SkySports.com: This is not news”

  1. The best yellow ticker last week was that Fanny Jeffers was going on trail at Blackpool today…..

  2. Hogger says:

    That must hold some kind of record for worst breaking news ever.

    That’s broken news.

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