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Christ, he's off again

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MarcoG said:
He's a Hearts fan. He primarily reports on Newcastle because they're a Premier League club and he's told to do it by his employers.
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That wasn’t the case when they were not in the Premier League.
I remember at the time he did a talk at a Uni and said Newcastle would always be the headline as ‘that’s how it is in the North East’.
It’s that’s his opinion then fair enough but he shouldn’t claim to be a north east reporter when doesn’t even report on Sunderland news half the time.
 

JamesTu said:
That wasn’t the case when they were not in the Premier League.
I remember at the time he did a talk at a Uni and said Newcastle would always be the headline as ‘that’s how it is in the North East’.
It’s that’s his opinion then fair enough but he shouldn’t claim to be a north east reporter when doesn’t even report on Sunderland news half the time.
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Spot on..
 
Weird how this drivel wasn't pushed out when they managed to stay unbeaten over the 2 previous games at home
 
He seems a nice fella on twitter but he goes over the top a bit with trying to link quite shit things like having a beer with some kind of spiritual connection to his football team.
 
Personally, i like Caulkin. I think some of the stuff he's wrote about Sunderland recently is pretty good. The 'Cans' tweet however was absolutely ridiculous.
 
He’s an absolute weapon who comes across as an over entitled spoilt bairn most of the time and trots out stories dripping in all those lazy, schmalzy cliches everyone cringes when they hear.

however it would be f***ing nice to have a writer covering Sunderland in the same way. There’s a massive story happening here and it’s largely ignored or instead focuses on the finance aspects. Where are the endless stories covering our 60 years of hurt. I can’t even bring myself to watch it but at least Netflix gets our story out there to some extent
 
Sure he hosts that Sob on the Tyne podcast as well, not sure how you can stay impartial by being a weekly regular on a barcode podcast.
 
The only difference the crowd would have made yesterday is them booing at half and full time - the rest would have been as quiet as it was.
 
Fans can’t attend a quarter final...shame. Imagine if your whole league was cancelled because most of the league don’t want to play despite being professional football clubs.
 
I think he has a point if you're taking away the 'he's a mag' goggles we all have on. The point of the cup especially is the occasion when a bigger team comes to an away game and the crowd lifts the home team. If the Chelsea QF in 92 had been behind closed doors I doubt we'd have won, and even if we had then it would be hard not to be sad that so many of us that were there and treasure that night would have missed it. Yes they are mags, but the point that football, the FA Cup in particular, is nothing without fans holds. Imagine how much less of an event the FA Cup Final will be this year behind closed doors....
 
Heathen Chemistry said:
So basically what he's saying is if there was fans in the stadium city would become shit and because there is no fans in the ground that's why city are the better side?

Christ just when I thought they couldnt get any more delusional.

If that's his logic, I'd love to hear his views on their 4-0 win at this very ground, with no fans.
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Lol
I have no idea how you arrive at what you said from what he said.
 
George Caulkin is no longer a north east football correspondent. He is a nufc fanzine writer now.

The cans tweet and yesterday's tweet comes at the cost of his credibility and professionalism

Your either a serious and respectable journalist or your not.

I wouldn't want him anywhere near reporting on safc matters.
 
The Cabbage said:
The move to the Athletic has seen a shift in how he writes. He always had these tendencies but he's basically writing fanzine stuff these days
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This. The Times made him behave like a proper journalist, catering to a generalist sports-fan audience.

Athletic want the partisan-fan audience and so have pushed him in a more clickbaity direction.

Not interested in the Athletic for this reason tbh.
 
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