The National Press

The press plays a big part in football. It gives us reviews and previews of all the weekends games as well as the statistics. It gives us the big stories behind the dressing room doors, the transfer rumours and the big stories dominating the news. Although, it does invade player's personal lives and also creates a big commotion over one little thing someone did wrong. 


Broadsheet papers are often more factual than others and don't rely as much on other people's opinions. It gives off a lot more details into what happened in the game by giving in-depth reports on how the game was played the formation used and how that influenced the game. Broadsheet papers pick out key moments of the game like a sending off or a controversial free kick that was given to create a vision in the reader's minds if they were unable to witness the game. More people tend to read these types of papers because they are more truthful and rely more on the facts than tabloids who often over exaggerate the truth.

Tabloid papers are the most popular one's within the UK. These papers have dedicated sports pages at the back that give the statistics, key moments and interviews with the higher league teams and give brief descriptions of the lower league teams. However, these papers over exaggerate what happened and always show the big football scandals like both of the John Terry scandals. The tabloid's like to sensationalise big scandals in order to bring in more money.

The press has influenced football in both a negative and positive way. The paper's enable us to read about the big games coming up and past games for analysis and reviews as well as keeping us up to date with the latest club news. However, the paper's pressure player's as they pick up all the wrong things they've done and over exaggerate it like it's a life or death situation and also invade their personal lives for the public to see, which can make many people turn on them.