Martin Samuel

kevo

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Mar 8, 2008

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• Feb 17, 2014

• #1

Hate the Daily Mail, but is anyone else a fan of Martin Samuel? Excellent football writer - agree with almost everything he says in today's column:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ar...lem-They-run-man-aims-no-higher-mediocre.html

 

hybrid_x

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Jun 28, 2011

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• Feb 17, 2014

• #2

Best football writer going imo.

 

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Tubby Mondays

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• Feb 17, 2014

• #3

Agree. Too good for the Daily Mail.

I used to like Brian Woolnough as well.

Is he still going?

 

Albion_Dave

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Jul 4, 2011

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Eastbourne

• Feb 17, 2014

• #4

Tubby Mondays said:

Agree. Too good for the Daily Mail.

I used to like Brian Woolnough as well.

Is he still going?

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Passed away either last year or the year before I believe.

 

smudge

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Jul 8, 2003

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On the ocean wave

• Feb 17, 2014

• #5

Mail have always had the best sports writers. Ian Wooldridge, Patrick Collins to name another 2.

 

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Tubby Mondays

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• Feb 17, 2014

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Albion_Dave said:

Passed away either last year or the year before I believe.

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Yeah youre right i just checked. Signed off in 2012.

 

Tricky Dicky

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• Feb 17, 2014

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I tend to watch Sunday Supplement every week, and these guys usually speak quite a lot of sense, but I just wouldn't buy any of the papers they write for.

 

Not Andy Naylor

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• Feb 17, 2014

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smudge said:

Mail have always had the best sports writers. Ian Wooldridge, Patrick Collins to name another 2.

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Well, that's quite a claim. They certainly spend a large amount of money on their sports desk for a paper that is mainly aimed at frightened middle-class women. Sammy* left The Times because the Fail paid him an unbelievable amount of dosh, as they did Paul Hayward - literally the sort of set-you-up-for-life sum you couldn't logically turn down. Paul decided after a while that money wasn't everything, much to his credit.

(* who is, I agree, up there with the very best - his breadth of reference is awe-inspiring).

 

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arkan

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• Feb 17, 2014

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I despise the Daily Fail but have always said their sports pages are the best newspaper wise.
I dont live with my mum anymore so never read it anymore as i wouldnt wipe my arse with it let alone pay good money for it.

 

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The Hon Sec

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Feb 23, 2009

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Deep up County

• Feb 17, 2014

• #10

Was disappointed he moved to the Mail as I read his articles a lot previously. Now I have to buy the paper occasionally just to see what he has to say.

 

Leighgull

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Dec 27, 2012

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• Feb 17, 2014

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Definitely the best in the business. Especially since he informed us that it was Wilf who DIDN'T want to go back to the Jesters and not Moyes stopping him.

 

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albionalex

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Feb 26, 2009

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• Feb 17, 2014

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I can't take the bloke seriously after he wrote the bizarre article suggesting Joey Barton should come out as gay.

 

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mccraque

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• Feb 17, 2014

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Am I the only one who thinks he's a fat tossbag with a beard? I hate it when he's on Skysports on a sunday morning. Actually...I dislike all of them.

 

Leekbrookgull

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Jul 14, 2005

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Leek

• Feb 17, 2014

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mccraque said:

Am I the only one who thinks he's a fat tossbag with a beard? I hate it when he's on Skysports on a sunday morning. Actually...I dislike all of them.

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Trouble is Sky is talk,Mail is Newsdesk copy.