That's a very good point. However, I'm of the belief that genuinely interesting writing/reporting of off-diary events/opinion pieces are almost as engaging for fans of one specific club as daily news content. This is why it can be very hard to keep a readership interested by words from manager/players from organised press conferences alone. Modern local print journalism doesn't have the capacity to expand into more interest/colour/opinion pieces because there simply isn't the time (from experience).
That's where the web gazumps it. Local papers don't have to keel over, they just have to be open to becoming web-savvy and web orientated, we'll get to a point where the last print-only generation is sadly no longer with us - that might have already happened/be in the process of happening.
I feel if there's good quality, at least slightly informed writing out there, that is still a valuable and interesting commodity. If that writing can be delivered with no specific timeframe it suits the audience. Maybe I'm wrong. Obviously I hope not.
Completely agree with that. It's much like opening the Sunday sports pages - the editorial pieces are usually far more interesting than cliché-ridden, meaningless, media-trained soundbites from managers. If you've a Di Canio on hand for quotes, it's a slightly different story, but Cooper does things rather differently, to put it mildly. Hopefully there is a market for the more informed pieces amongst the broader fanbase. Good work and all the best with it.
P.S a nice long Fraser interview would be great. Clichéd anecdotes from the early 90s would be fine by me in that instance.
