Football Unlimited's Premiership Preview, which was previously updated alphabetically, has now made it all the way to West Ham, missing out three teams on the way: Newcastle Utd, Sunderland and Middlesborough.

Paranoid or is there a rational explanation?

Link is http://football.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9753,536495,00.html

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Answers

It'll be a spilling mistook ;-)

The headline says they've reached ManUre today so perhaps Soton, Spurs and Wham are a case of premature articulation?? Or are they keeping the best to last??

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Fella on TOTT with inside information (Sunday Telegraph reporter I think) seemed to think so. He posted a list of the allegiances of various national papers' chief sports correspondents, which I couldn't find later thanks to people there always responding to taunts from Mackems (coupled with the emergence of that Chelsea "woman").

Anyway, from what I remember the Guardian has a Spurs bias (hence that report some weeks back comparing NUFC unfavourably with Tottenham.

The other interesting snippet of his was that the Mirror's chief sports writer was the ghostwriter of Ruud Gullit's autobiography, hence that paper's unfailingly objective and helpful reportage of the Toon since the dreadlocked-one's successor took over.

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Yeh, it is Harry Harris, who wrote the appalling "Out of Toon", probably the worst footie book in the world.

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

The Daily Star's a toon paper.

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

The Daily Star is a 'paper' Rik? What cigarette paper? Bog Paper? Just kidden man....it is the noble inheritor of the "bus found on moon" type of story now the Sun has gone aaal interlectaul like. Top laugh.

-- Anonymous, August 18, 2001

My Economics teacher's brother is a reporter for the Mirror, he wrote the match report for the Munich home leg in the Mirror - Simon Bird is his name. He's a Newcastle fan born and bred, but he writes reports for all the North East games, should be an interesting read when we play the Mackems.

-- Anonymous, August 18, 2001