Aston Villa’s attack is starting to click — and Nicolas Jackson is at the heart of it
09.09.26, 14:24 Updated 09.09.26, 14:24
Michael Plant
For a period during the 2010s, one post-match article became a staple in online football coverage.
‘X things we learned from…’ was once so popular in media circles, it almost became an in-joke among journalists, something to even poke fun at, such was its simplistic premise.
It was symptomatic of journalism's declining standards: a need for sensationalism and immediate, concrete verdicts. In reality, across a 40+ game season, there’s often little to glean from one match.
Audiences cottoned on to this eventually. Reporters grew tired of writing such formulaic articles, and the media landscape moved on.
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Michael Plant Freelance reporter. Nearly a decade's experience in the media industry and a former Manchester United, Manchester City and Liverpool club correspondent. A Villa fan from birth, Michael was born in Birmingham but grew up in Belfast.