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While reading a match report that involves your own team, you might tolerate the lowest standards of writing just to find out the basic details of who scored when. Most websites realise this and skimp on all attempts at style, structure and originality in favour of short, bland, factual write-ups. The occasional more gifted writers, however, will engage the neutral and keep them reading to the end, no matter which sides are playing. More often than not the best reports arise from hardship. For example, an account at Morton Unofficial of a Scottish Cup tie at Livingston played in gale force conditions on a Tuesday night in January begins with the tone-setting summary: “Livingston may have won this game of farceball but it was the elements that ultimately dictated the result of this blow football match.” The Morton-supporting eye-witness then turns all bitter at the SFA and the state of Scottish football, as the high winds prompt him to see an archetypally arduous away trip on a foul evening as a reflection of all that’s ill within the game north of Carlisle. Then finally he remembers to return to the match itself. “Morton took the game to Livingston from the kick-off. Well, they had no choice as that’s the way the gale was blowing the ball.” The writer’s deadpan stoicism sees Morton safely out the of the Scottish Cup for another year. From WSC 217 March 2005. What was happening this month Comments (0)
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