Enda McEvoy: In the event Mayo win All-Ireland, do they cease being good copy?
SILVERWARE BAGGED: Mayo players Diarmuid O'Connor, Jack Coyne, Jack Carney, Ryan O'Donoghue and Matthew Ruane with the cup after the Allianz Football League Division 1 final. Pic: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile
The week before last, Suzy Wrack, an English sportswriter and author, tapped out a fascinating thread on Twitter about her evening at Stamford Bridge covering Chelsea versus Lyon in the quarter-final of the UEFA Women’s Champions League.
Her theme was the nuts and bolts of covering a night match. How the reporter files a chunk of copy at half-time, some more on 70 minutes, then an opening and closing paragraph on the final whistle. “We do it like this so the sub-editors can work on it as the game is being played. When the final whistle goes they just have to edit a couple of paragraphs.”
