Look who has an inferiority complex

I've always wondered if this 'small town chip-on-the-shoulder' mentality is just something of a myth. Something that's just made up by those in the big city to keep the outsiders firmly in their place.


Well thanks to Stephen Cummings at the Burnley Citizen, the small town inferiority complex is alive and well in one Lancashire village.

I can imagine the discussion with the sports editor in the newsroom now. "Steve, we need you to write something about Burnley FC - you OK with that?"
"That's fine, but what if I write something about Leeds United?"
"But we're more than 45 miles from Leeds."
"Yeah I know, but I can write something about Leeds United."
"But why?"
"I just think it'd be really good."

And as it turned out, what he eventually wrote was a waste of everyone's time. The time he spent in writing it, the time of the people who bought and read the Citizen and the time of the Brazilian bloke who probably cut down the tree in the Amazon to begin with.

It's an opinion piece and, like everyone else, he's entitled to his view. This is one person who just happens to be in a privileged position where he can broadcast his opinions publicly. With that privilege though, there has to be some modicum of effort and reasoning behind it. This is just antagonistic ranting for someone obviously trying to make a name for himself.

A Shameless Plug

As well as enjoying or enduring my thoughts and ramblings on A View from the Bar and The One Pointer, you've now got a third place to read my work you lucky devils.

As part of one of our college modules at Leeds Trinity & All Saints College, the third year Sports Journalism students have to maintain a local sports website which will from here on be known as Sported.

I think you should all read it. The site is in its infancy at the minute (it only went live on Friday) and so there are still plenty of bugs in it, but I think you should look at it none the less.

Oh and tell them you came from here, just to give me another plug ;)

Enjoy (and by the way, mine is the Farsley Celtic piece.)