Positive spin
Example No. 352 for why I don't buy newspapers:
(Background: The New Zealand Knights is a "professional" soccer ... sorry, football team that plays in the Australian A-League. Last season they came last with a record of I think W1 D3 L17. This year so far, their record is W2 D2 L11, and yes - last. They rank right up with men's tennis players as New Zealand's biggest sporting embarrassment)
Headline: Knights in position to influence race for playoffs
Oh this should be good
The party-pooping New Zealand Knights have the chance of dishing out more of the same in five of their six remaining A-League fixtures.
About as much chance as I have of marrying Maria Sharapova
The 1-1 draw they took from the Newcastle Jets on Sunday could be a sign of things to come.
Or it could be the biggest sporting fluke since Bangladesh beat Australia in cricket
In denying the Jets all three points and with it the chance to move into the top four, the Knights showed they could yet influence the race not only for the Hyundai A-League title but the scrap for the two places available in the Asian Champions League ... But the scrap for the remaining three places will go to the wire with the Knights, if they can burgle some points, likely to have some influence.
Did this journo watch the game? The Knights were completely outplayed and got a draw thanks to a penalty - they have as much influence over the competition as I do over my stepson
They are away to Adelaide United on Sunday in a game which has more than passing interest for Adelaide coach John Kosmina and his team.
Of course the game has more than a "passing interest" - they are playing in the friggin' game fer chrissakes. Talk about stating the obvious
He will be still having nightmares over their round two 1-0 loss to the Knights and will only be a little happier when he looks back at their second meeting which they won 4-2 - the only time in 15 matches this season the Knights have scored more than one goal.
Anyone who loses to the Knights aren't having nightmares - they need a full course of therapy on the psychiatrist's couch. And to state the Knights scored more than one goal in that game is stretching the truth - one of the goals was an own goal so while it counts on the scoreboard, the Knights didn't score it. Splitting hairs maybe, but rather than an example of the Knight's scoring prowess it just shows even the most useless of sporting teams gets a break or two now and then
And so on. The rest of the article talks (thankfully) about other teams - but what I don't get is why put such a positive spin on possibly the worst professional football team on the planet. The article is a preview of the upcoming weekend's matches (why such preview has to appear in Tuesday's paper perhaps shows just how important it is - get it in early or not at all), and the Knights should warrant one sentence - maybe two, even to a NZ audience.
The Knights rank right up there with NZ's highest ranked men's tennis player at 474 or something as things the general NZ sporting public don't give a flying fuck about. And even if we did care, we certainly don't need our thought processes massaged into thinking the Knights have some "influence" in the competition. It is a waste of ink and newsprint.
In this SPARC-led era that winners are grinners and the rest can go and jump, will the newspapers please put our sporting embarrassments six feet under (where they belong) never to see the light of day. Thanks.
(Background: The New Zealand Knights is a "professional" soccer ... sorry, football team that plays in the Australian A-League. Last season they came last with a record of I think W1 D3 L17. This year so far, their record is W2 D2 L11, and yes - last. They rank right up with men's tennis players as New Zealand's biggest sporting embarrassment)
Headline: Knights in position to influence race for playoffs
Oh this should be good
The party-pooping New Zealand Knights have the chance of dishing out more of the same in five of their six remaining A-League fixtures.
About as much chance as I have of marrying Maria Sharapova
The 1-1 draw they took from the Newcastle Jets on Sunday could be a sign of things to come.
Or it could be the biggest sporting fluke since Bangladesh beat Australia in cricket
In denying the Jets all three points and with it the chance to move into the top four, the Knights showed they could yet influence the race not only for the Hyundai A-League title but the scrap for the two places available in the Asian Champions League ... But the scrap for the remaining three places will go to the wire with the Knights, if they can burgle some points, likely to have some influence.
Did this journo watch the game? The Knights were completely outplayed and got a draw thanks to a penalty - they have as much influence over the competition as I do over my stepson
They are away to Adelaide United on Sunday in a game which has more than passing interest for Adelaide coach John Kosmina and his team.
Of course the game has more than a "passing interest" - they are playing in the friggin' game fer chrissakes. Talk about stating the obvious
He will be still having nightmares over their round two 1-0 loss to the Knights and will only be a little happier when he looks back at their second meeting which they won 4-2 - the only time in 15 matches this season the Knights have scored more than one goal.
Anyone who loses to the Knights aren't having nightmares - they need a full course of therapy on the psychiatrist's couch. And to state the Knights scored more than one goal in that game is stretching the truth - one of the goals was an own goal so while it counts on the scoreboard, the Knights didn't score it. Splitting hairs maybe, but rather than an example of the Knight's scoring prowess it just shows even the most useless of sporting teams gets a break or two now and then
And so on. The rest of the article talks (thankfully) about other teams - but what I don't get is why put such a positive spin on possibly the worst professional football team on the planet. The article is a preview of the upcoming weekend's matches (why such preview has to appear in Tuesday's paper perhaps shows just how important it is - get it in early or not at all), and the Knights should warrant one sentence - maybe two, even to a NZ audience.
The Knights rank right up there with NZ's highest ranked men's tennis player at 474 or something as things the general NZ sporting public don't give a flying fuck about. And even if we did care, we certainly don't need our thought processes massaged into thinking the Knights have some "influence" in the competition. It is a waste of ink and newsprint.
In this SPARC-led era that winners are grinners and the rest can go and jump, will the newspapers please put our sporting embarrassments six feet under (where they belong) never to see the light of day. Thanks.
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