Damien

I agree with that. A lot of the football Journalists at The Times/Guardian/Telegraph seem to have the same view, if you listen to their Podcasts they are much more balanced and care less about the hysteria. Although those papers do employ 'commentators' who seem to write more baiting rubbish.

The problem is papers like The Sun whom lot of 'football' fans use as their main source and who will wrap Rooney and the like in the flag. To them it's almost Anti-English to say Rooney/Gerrard and co dive as well. Unfortunately these are the morons who Sky Sports bring in to talk about it on the Sunday Supplement program.