An eternal Winter. Winter extending an icy grip over the landscape. But even Winter, it seems, can end up being frozen out. Given the cold shoulder. It's time to wrap up for Winter, now this particular Winter's tale has reached its final chapter.
That, with apologies, was the opening paragraph to a column about Henry Winter's dismissal by the Times, written in the style of Henry Winter for the Times. On the other hand, it's entirely possible you haven't the faintest idea what, or who, I'm talking about. Which to an oblique and probably selfdefeating extent is actually the point.
Winter is the chief football writer of the Times, at least until he was suddenly made redundant last week. It was the dismissal heard around the world, if by "the world" you mean "the WhatsApp groups of newspaper sports journalists". And in a low-key, navel-gazing sort of way, a move that tells us quite a lot about how, and through whom, we consume football these days.
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