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Anyone remember the alternative football magazine FOUL in the mid 70's, a kind of football Private Eye?

The editor (Alan Stewart) was a war zone journalist who sadly got himself killed by a land mine in Eithiopia or somewhere like that.

A few other regular writers (e.g. Chris Lightbrown) went on to write for The Times and similar papers when FOUL went out of production.

Now that did have stuff worth reading.

It did feature some full page local stuff on Saints, Poopey and Bournemouth.

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Anyone remember the alternative football magazine FOUL in the mid 70's, a kind of football Private Eye?

The editor (Alan Stewart) was a war zone journalist who sadly got himself killed by a land mine in Eithiopia or somewhere like that.

A few other regular writers (e.g. Chris Lightbrown) went on to write for The Times and similar papers when FOUL went out of production.

Now that did have stuff worth reading.

It did feature some full page local stuff on Saints, Poopey and Bournemouth.

 

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Good read... small point "the manager is rotating the back four and the centre of midfield without effecting results." 'affecting' surely?

 

Thanks, and agree. Silly mistake.

 

mate, the spelling needs sorting. makes you look stupid. sorry.

 

What is worse, is, I can't see any? Can you point them out.

 

All feedback is appreciated, but what is even more worrying, is that these blogs go through an editor before they are published!

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I spotted "Southamton" too, somewhere (I think it was in the headline bit of one of your posts). I'm not trying to make your life more difficult, honest. You are clearly knowledgeable and passionate and the fact that you are writing a blog about Saints on a national website is to be applauded. The problem is that errors in spelling and grammar detract from the authority of your opinions.

 

And if these are being passed to an editor for checking, then you will excuse me for saying that the editor is not very good at his/her job (I was going to say that the editor was ****, but that would be rude. My Mum raised me better than that.)

 

My advice would be to dump the spellchecker and do it yourself. Read it back and say it out loud to yourself as you do so. This may make you look like a mentalist to anyone watching but it works, trust me. Spellcheckers are untrustworthy bastards and must be destroyed by any means necessary!

 

Sorry to bang on, I've had rather a lot of coffee so far today.

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"SOUTHAMTON" in the headline.... :-)

 

Good read though

 

I spotted "Southamton" too, somewhere (I think it was in the headline bit of one of your posts). I'm not trying to make your life more difficult, honest. You are clearly knowledgeable and passionate and the fact that you are writing a blog about Saints on a national website is to be applauded. The problem is that errors in spelling and grammar detract from the authority of your opinions.

 

And if these are being passed to an editor for checking, then you will excuse me for saying that the editor is not very good at his/her job (I was going to say that the editor was ****, but that would be rude. My Mum raised me better than that.)

 

My advice would be to dump the spellchecker and do it yourself. Read it back and say it out loud to yourself as you do so. This may make you look like a mentalist to anyone watching but it works, trust me. Spellcheckers are untrustworthy bastards and must be destroyed by any means necessary!

 

Sorry to bang on, I've had rather a lot of coffee so far today.

 

SOUTHAMTON has annoyed me. I don't write the headlines. I will e-mail editor forthwith.

 

Thanks for the compliments and advice, I appreciate all feedback, good and bad.

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