He’s young and writes for The Independent and wears big black glasses.
Jack is the Buddy Holly of football scribes.
On Garry Monk at Leeds, he said,”I can’t remember the last time a manager has taken on a hospital-pass job like Leeds and made a good job of it.”
He was incisive throughout, especially at the end of the show when the hacks were talking about transfers, and who should go where.
So much so that Matt Law (Daily Telegraph) and host Neil Ashton were teasing him about being a “sporting director” as well as a journalist.
Talking about whether Antoine Griezmann would fit in at Arsenal, Jack said, “He would be a brilliant replacement for Sanchez, if Sanchez wanted to go.”
I agree. Because Griezmann is a razor-sharp goalpoacher, one of the world’s finest.
But he can’t make as many goals for himself as often as Sanchez can.
Myself, I’d love to see Ozil and Griezmann play together.
And style-wise, Arsenal is the only PL team in which those two could play together.
Jack also said ,”Arsenal and Man City aren’t gonna win the Champions League or the Premier League, so they have to win the FA Cup.”
That’s what I’ve been saying about Arsenal on ANR in recent weeks.
Sky were clever when they started up in 1992.
They created Hold The Back Page, hosted by The Sun’s Brian Woolnough, to get the tabloids onside.
Brian was a natural TV presenter,very relaxed and a good summariser.
25 years into the digital age, the newspapers are not so powerful now, so they want their journalists on The Sunday Supplement to raise the profile of the paper.
Presenter Neil Ashton is twitchy, not a patch on Brian.
Marshall McLuhan, the Canadian guru, was right when he said radio is a hot medium, while television is a cool one.
TV flatters the low-key and Brian Woolnough was as low-key as they come.
I got on very well with Brian & still miss him. He was a real gent.