Abstract
The chief sportswriter of the Mail on Sunday laments the changes in football writing demanded by a sport now totally dominated by money. The relationship between reporters and players are now conducted through staged press conferences and copy-controlled interviews, he says. Players can no longer confide their problems to sympathetic ears and writers are no longer privy to the stresses of the professional game. And so, concludes Collins, everybody loses.
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