ABSTRACT
The match report is both the essence of sportswriting and its area of sorest neglect. After all, so much sportswriting now revolves around the match – the preview, the post-mortem, the follow-up story, the transfer story, the injury story, the discipline story, the Jose-slags-offArsene story, the corruption story, the drugs story, the sex-scandal story, the Bloggs-has-abook-to-sell-so-he’ll-say-anything story.
