After the week in which Mario Balotelli moved a step nearer the Manchester City exit, Ian Herbert asks why his club haven’t matched their vast investment in him with a heavy layout on those who can put him on the straight and narrow . By Ian Herbert 14 January 2013 Ridiculous, you’ll probably say […]
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Tell me why … we don’t laud today’s FA Cup giant-killers like we do Ronnie Radford
* In his first Monday column of 2013, Ian Herbert, The Independent’s man in the north-west, asks why we only remember Ronnie Radford when 21st century giant killers are far more up against it; why ITV’s Splash! was a car crash; and why the Premier League chairmen won’t take Fergie on. . By Ian Herbert […]
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Tell me why … I won’t get any substantive answers to these 13 questions for 2013
* In the latest instalment of his brilliant weekly Monday column, Tell Me Why, the Independent’s man in the north-west, Ian Herbert, poses 13 questions that are guaranteed to remain contentious and unanswered satisfactorily in the sporting year ahead. . By Ian Herbert 31 December 2012 1. Tell me why we can’t stop demonising officials in […]
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Tell me why … there are no rules about managers discussing officials after the match
* In the latest instalment of a new weekly Monday column, Tell Me Why, the Independent’s brilliant man in the north-west, Ian Herbert, asks why the Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has been allowed to dominate the narrative of a fine football match in Swansea yesterday with diversionary comments and a slur on a match official – […]
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Tell me why … we think SPOTY proves Britain to be a sophisticated sporting nation?
* In the latest instalment of a new weekly Monday column, Tell Me Why, the Independent’s brilliant man in the north-west, Ian Herbert, asks, the morning after the SPOTY before, whether Britain truly is a nation of sporting sophistication, or whether it’s a country that simply likes to part of an ‘event’ – any event. SPOTY winners are […]
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Tell me why … we want to bury to Stuart Hall before his right to a fair trial?
* In the third instalment of a new weekly Monday column, Tell Me Why, the Independent’s brilliant man in the north-west, Ian Herbert, asks whether we are too quick to play judge and jury in some cases where famous people have been accused of abuse, and examines how, in others, society appears quite comfortable to apply 2012 […]
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Tell me why … nobody seems to care whether what they read is true?
* In the second instalment of a new weekly Monday column, Tell Me Why, the Independent’s brilliant man in the north-west, Ian Herbert, asks whether readers actually care any more whether what they are reading is true. In a world of churnalism, SEO-dictated content and made-up nonsense that becomes ‘fact’ by dint of being re-Tweeted enough times, […]
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Tell me why … Manchester United needed to erect a statue to Sir Alex Ferguson now?
* In the first instalment of a new weekly Monday column, Tell Me Why, the Independent’s brilliant man in the north-west, Ian Herbert, asks why Manchester United needed to unveil a statue of their remarkable manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, even before Fergie has left the building. What does it tell us about Sir Alex, and […]
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‘Doping by tribal remedies will become a scandal if England lose to an African team, but not before’
By Ian Herbert 23 February 2010 Top-flight football is truly a world of flat earth news, to coin the journalist Nick Davies’ memorable description of the way the information the mass media delivers has become homogenous and rarely open to question. This week, Fabio Capello has been followed half way around the world to a […]
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