Why Do We Need So-Called Football Journalists?

Why Do We Need So-Called Football Journalists?

Every newspaper, every TV station, every radio station, and even a lot of the larger football websites, employ football journalists who spend all their time giving us their opinions.

Quite often this is called “expert opinion”. But is it? Watch the video below as Untold Gooner News’ Tony Attwood gets to grips with the matter.


What makes a football journalist’s opinion “expert” while your opinion and my opinion is not? Tony Attwood discusses the negatives that emanate from the columns of these journalists and wonders in fact do we need football journalists at all? Why not rip out their whole special area at Arsenal Stadium, with its extra large seats and tables, its own secretive entrance, its own media lounges etc, and put in more seats for the fans?

What good do football journalists do? Not a lot as far as I can see. If we got rid of them would the world be a worse place? I don’t think so.