Unluckiest Sports Journalist

The Tonker · The Tonker Mon Dec 17, 2012 1:12 am

Reported in today's 'Independent':

"Japanese journalist Daisuke Nakajima travelled 6,000 miles from Tokyo to report on an Irn-Bru Third Division match between Rangers FC and Elgin City. However, it wasn't until he had undertaken a 14-hour flight, an overnight stop in Edinburgh, and a five-hour train journey, and was approaching the football ground that he opened a local newspaper and found the match had been called off due to an error with ticketing."

You have to ask what an earth the Japanese are doing covering that sort of match. I bet his trip expenses included an unusually large number of single malt whiskies in the list.

Kamuza · Kamuza Mon Dec 17, 2012 2:45 am

Could have been worse. They could have sent him to check up on former J-League star Kimbo Kyung.

*** G L O V E S *** · *** G L O V E S *** Mon Dec 17, 2012 7:32 am

This was in The Echo a week last Friday. OLD NEWS ALERT!!!!!!!!!

The Tonker · The Tonker Mon Dec 17, 2012 7:40 am

I never said it was new news. News is in the eye of the beholder - if people weren't aware of the Echo's report a week last Friday (as I wasn't), then it's still new news.

*** G L O V E S *** · *** G L O V E S *** Mon Dec 17, 2012 8:02 pm

The Tonker wrote:I never said it was new news. News is in the eye of the beholder - if people weren't aware of the Echo's report a week last Friday (as I wasn't), then it's still new news.

Is it, though?