Two Schools of Football Journalism
The first was founded by Geoffrey Green through his inspired, illuminating view of the footballing events fully immersed in its present moment thus capturing that true environment for the benefit of posterity. Any disapproval of the game or the methods employed by the teams were conveyed in a subtle manner.
The second school of thought is the Critique, who constantly compares the level of the prevailing standards with that of the past. Echoing similar instances of occurrences in the by-gone era, more often than not ends up painting a negative picture, distilling bare bone details of facts and figures. Another Times writer Brian Glanville is the exponent of this school.
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