I did say 'local' sports journalists too. Sometimes the national journos do talk more about the politics/finances of a club (although even then the real in depth stuff is left to people like David Conn and Mihir Bose, who you don't see writing match reports as far as I know). It's easier for the...
None of the those are the type of story a local sports journalist would tend to get involved with. They'd be handled by the news desk - hence the reason that there is quite often a difficult relationship between news and sports departments, with the sports bods having to pick up the pieces every...