Is the standard match report long for this world?

How many years until the last match report is carried in a print newspaper? asks Enda McEvoy.

The thought has occurred on and off in recent years. These past few days it’s occurred again. Let’s start by pondering a tweet from a chap, one who’s done many a fine match report over the years, on Thursday morning following the events at Anfield.

“Sometimes I forget the simple pleasure of getting lost in the papers after an epochal night of sport,” quoth he. “Some of the writing — on the whistle — today is brilliant.”