Football Daily | Postecoglou, Maguire and football?s merry-go-round of vested interes

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Vested interest is a powerful thing. Often the people with the biggest platform, shouting the loudest, are not always the ones we should be listening to. Just look at Mayor Joe Quimby. Yet journalists and broadcasters continue to stick microphones in front of elected officials and Proper Football People, who make arguments and push narratives that seem to directly serve their own position, and nobody else. It?s a tiresome merry-go-round. So excuse the eyes rolling into the back of Football Daily?s head when Ange Postecoglou starts defending the abolition of FA Cup replays in the name of fixture congestion after his Tottenham side [gah, we failed abysmally, Nigel ? Football Daily Ed] laboured to a nervy extra-time win over non-league Tamworth in Sunday?s third-round match at the Lamb Ground, capacity 4,000.
Poor Nigel Watersfield (Friday?s Football Daily letters). Not only is he a very Spursy Spurs fan, but he also seemingly lives under the misapprehension that Football Daily can deliver anything vaguely amusing about any football club. Or anything else for that matter? ? Martyn Shapter (and 1,056 others).
Nice to see Villa celebrating their 150th anniversary in original colours, devoid of corporate branding and other nonsense, no players? names on the back, etc on Friday night. Shame they missed the opportunity to go the whole hog and number the shirts 1-11. Or even 2-11 since the keeper never got a number. If the sponsors can agree to leave their branding off, surely the players would acquiesce to playing with a different number on their back? Though I suspect they were never asked? ? Steve Hall.
It?s just a shame David Moyes wasn?t offered, and accepted, another return to the West Ham job before jumping ship on news of Sean Dyche?s sacking. Then the strapline could have been ?two jobs in a week, I bet you think that?s pretty clever, don?t you Moyes?? as he left the Hammers high and dry? ? James Maltby.
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