That Waghorn paragraph - worth repeating again.

"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."

A complete admission that he just 'minds his Ps and Qs' with whoever the manager is, until he knows they're about to be sacked.

Which is what some of us have been accusing Waghown of all season.

Surely he can see that you don't have to play this game to be a football reporter? That you can, actually, describe things the way you see them?

I'm sure there are plenty of proper football writers out there who have dared to criticise managers. Just because YOU'VE been gutless all season Rick, (and you're beginning to regret it now) - doesn't mean you *had* to be.

And as you know, Rick - your gutlessnesss certainly didn't go unnoticed. Frankly can't see why anyone would believe a word you write in future - you've now basically admitted that you don't write what you see. Which is what you are in fact paid to do.

Posted By: Tricky Hawes, Mar 1, 17:02:37