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How much information is too much information?

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Oh God; NO! TMI!

Gary Neville has decided to come out and say Chelsea were wrong, Arsenal were wrong - basically, wrong wrong wrong - no Gary, your FACE is wrong.

But Seriously, I get the impression it's just a case of Christmas stress for Gary. Why do we need to know what he is saying? Is he just "bitching" in the hope people will get wound up enough to say he is right? Now I have to rephrase that...

I mean is this just football journalism at it's most pointless? Do we really, really need to know Gary Neville thinks Chelsea shouldn't moan about losing players and Wenger shouldn't have complained about Wolves fielding a weakened team? Does it matter...

Hold on... Does it matter if Chelsea moaned about losing players to the Africa nations or Wenger (oh shut up man!) said Wolves shouldn't have fielded a weak team against United. Now... can we go deeper?

Should the press consider this news? Oddly, people want to hear what Wenger says. They bow down to his superiority although I see as much superiority in this statement he made as the superiority a rusty old screw has before a complicated bit of DIY work.

I'm beginning to think none of this is of any consequence.

Now what do you and I talk about after a game? We talk about the team, the formation and the occurrences in the game. Before somebody says "that's what the press do", I would say, No they do not. The press respond with a huge amplification of minor details - particularly because a large proportion of readers of Sports Writing want the drama and sensation.

Let's face facts - we'd all be Arsenal fans without all this drama, won't we... so why are some people so obsessed with it?

Simple things please simple minds?

posted by Arsenal Muse @ 12/22/2009 07:53:00 PM