ha ha. just read it. bottom line seems pretty clear to me.

The (only) interesting bit of that article is where Waghorn positions himself to turn on Worthy as soon as he goes. So he's starting to admit now that the unstinting support he's offered him throughout the season was in fact just Waghorn sucking up to the club to maintain his contacts.
(*Key bit pasted below.)

That's OK as far as it goes. Of course the alternative is to actually be an honest reporter - i.e. call it as you see it, so that if the team or individual players are playing badly, you say so. So rather than just backing up the manager's excuses, and claiming we'll still make the play-offs, you actually tell the truth.

Who knows, you might even build up enough if a reputation as an honest reporter that people at the club still talk to you.

Alternatively, the gutless sycophant, a la Waghorn this season until now, is always an option.

*"Me? Well, if you haven't worked it out by now, football reporters play the whore in all this. We stick close to the people who give you the decent stories, the ones who provide the back page leads, those with some idea of the truth. Whether Leon McKenzie is in Hellesdon Hospital or not. And you play that game right up until the moment you get the silent nod from either the dressing room or the boardroom, invariably both. At that point, it's time to do the ?Et tu, Brut??? bit and stab the bloke in the back. Then it's simply a question of minding your Ps and Qs with the next luckless soul to sit on the hot seat and away we go again."

Posted By: Tricky Hawes, Mar 1, 16:17:47