RANTS
Gareth Roberts

WHAT’S the role of newspaper football journalists in the age of the internet?
With every goal, every substitution, even every pass, foul or assist, available at the touch of the button or the swipe of a screen, it is certainly no longer just to report the facts of a game.
The days when football fans would wait freezing in the dark for the city’s football newspaper to arrive early on a Saturday evening have, in the main, sadly long gone.
For match-goers, every fact of every game can be devoured before the scarf has hit the coat peg in the hallway of hom...