Managers of top English Premier League clubs are concerned by England’s World Cup disaster earlier this June and they are actually offering their help to England manager Fabio Capello, according to this article by the Guardian.
I was taken aback by this piece of news as I have always thought of the English club managers as being more interested in winning silverware for their own club. They have always seen international football duties as being a chore and that it distracts their players especially in the middle of the busy football season. I remember last season when Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger was complaining about his star striker Robin Van Persie returning injured from international duty - so news of the club managers wanting to help England's head coach was really surprising.
This short story is interesting, but it seems to have consisted of only a single interview with Richard Bevan – the chief executive of the League managers' Association. Other sources should have been interviewed. Managers such as Manchester United’s Alex Ferguson and Wenger are mentioned in the article as having written a letter of advice to Capello but this is not backed up with comments from these coaches themselves. Even a short interview with one or two of these managers would have given the story more depth.
The visual showing a backdated picture of a glum Capello at an England match conference could also have been made more relevant to the story by replacing this with one of Capello being surrounded by a few English club managers.
This article seems to have been copied and pasted several times onto different news websites through a Google search. The Guardian seems to have done this too, as they credited Bevan’s quote to another newspaper, the Telegraph. This makes me wonder whether the facts were checked before the article was posted online because of the changing media landscape and the rush for news institutions to deliver the latest breaking news.
But overall, this is an informative article and the five ’W’s and one ‘H’ of journalism are present.
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