I’ve been writing for a field sports magazine for 17 years, it’s not easy I grant you, but rolling out the same old phrases is lazy journalism............I may be being unfair, but rolling out George Williams every few weeks saying the same thing is getting a bit stale......perhaps they could use a different player every week rolling out the old lines, that would cover about 25 weeks of the season.

They are professional footballers, that's what they're paid to do. Who cares if they're not very good at being interviewed?

It would have thought they were paid to play football. I wouldn't force anyone who didn't want to do it, but encourage them to do so.

I think they should get Lewington to do the interviews.

Not at all.....I have no problem with player interviews, but in the same manner every time ?
It’s not very hard is it.......just like those well used phrases I mentioned.....I’m suprised, they don’t start chucking in a few “you knows” or “know what I mean” or “at the end of the day”...
I’m sure our resident creative editorial expert Dan, must squirm if he can be arsed to read it.

I absolutely despise the phrase 'the men from MK1'. It comes across as a deliberate shoehorning of 'MK1' into articles to try and subconsciously promote the retail park. And even if it isn't, it just sounds so fucking corporate.

From the writer's point of view, putting shite like this together is a thankless task because there's no room for creativity or doing anything different. The players won't like being pushed outside their nice and simple comfort zone, while a fair proportion of the readers won't have the mental capacity to appreciate any flair in the copy.