Something a little different today
I`d like to write today about something a little bit different. You can spend all day reading articles about how we should play more young players, and that Neil Lennon is a wally and about how Gartside owes someone £2 for a coffee etc? and that`s all fine. I like to read opinionated pieces as much as I do news and while we aren`t necessarily a news reporting site, the opinions we offer are often on current Bolton Wanderers affairs- it would be pretty pointless to give our opinions now on Bolton 0-1 Sunderland, August 15th 2009.
Like many, I have my regular sources which I like to check daily for the latest news and I check NewsNow which is absolutely brilliant- it aggregates news from a selection of footballing sites and we are featured on Bolton NewsNow. That is one way that many (including myself) find news.
However, sometimes things pop up such as a recent Daily Mail article that you all probably have read about how we`re going into administration and that non-playing staff fear that they will lose their job etc? The club later dismissed the statement in a rather bland but I guess simple and effective statement that, in essence, said that we`re struggling but we`re not doing that badly and we`re doing our best to rectify the situation. Since I don`t know the ins and outs of it (if I did I wouldn`t be looking it up) I can`t comment on the validity of the content of the original article or the club statement.
However, I would like to urge Bolton fans not to judge and make assumptions from article headlines. They are purposely designed to draw interest and as a result truths can be stretched in order to make articles click-worthy (we`ve all been there- I get it!) and once again that`s fine. I have been reading a few articles that, since the club statement, have said implied in their headline/article headline that we`re going into administration contrary to the club statement. Then when you go on to read the article in turns out to be quite the opposite and that what they`re actually trying to say is that there has been a report that the club is considering going into administration but the club denies this. So, at the end of the day we`re not actually being told anything new and the title is misleading and really clashes with the redundant body of text.
I`d like to reiterate that I`m not for a second claiming that the club won`t go into administration or rubbishing articles that give us some context as to what the process would do mean for the club as it`s worth knowing for sure. However at the same time, read the article and don`t just draw conclusions from the headline. A lot of the time, it`s just old news with an ambiguous headline.