Blatant Plagiarism (RTE or Sky News)

Guill

From RTE:

It had been some 24 hours for Danny Welbeck.
Selected for England ahead of Jermain Defoe yesterday, he started this afternoon's showpiece whilst Dimitar Berbatov was on the bench and Michael Owen remained in his suit. The 20-year-old was part of a scintillating performance from the Red Devils that lacked only an opening goal.
Between them, Welbeck, Wayne Rooney, Nani and new signing Ashley Young cut City's midfield apart. Had United's final ball been better, they surely would have got their noses in front.
As it was, Lescott got in the way of efforts from Young, Smalling and Welbeck. Rooney curled a free-kick narrowly wide.
City's tackling grew increasingly desperate and after Mario Balotelli and Dzeko had got themselves embroiled with Nemanja Vidic and Anderson respectively, Micah Richards was fortunate to stay on the field for a studs-first lunge on Young that sent the former Aston Villa winger flying.
Referee Phil Dowd felt the need to issue some strict instructions to Blues skipper Kompany after another shuddering lunge from Nigel de Jong, this time on Welbeck.
How quickly circumstances can change.
Ferguson has already admitted to taking a gamble on De Gea, who - at just 20 - is being asked to fill the boots of a man with twice his age in Edwin van der Sar.

From Sky News:

It had been some 24 hours for Danny Welbeck. Selected for England ahead of Jermain Defoe on Saturday, he started Sunday's showpiece while Dimitar Berbatov was on the bench and Michael Owen remained in his suit.
The 20-year-old was part of a scintillating performance from the Red Devils that lacked only an opening goal.
Between them, Welbeck, Wayne Rooney, Nani and new signing Ashley Young cut City's midfield apart. Had United's final ball been better, they surely would have got their noses in front.
As it was, Lescott got in the way of efforts from Young, Smalling and Welbeck. Rooney curled a free-kick narrowly wide.
Strict

City's tackling grew increasingly desperate and after Mario Balotelli and Dzeko had got themselves embroiled with Nemanja Vidic and Anderson respectively, Micah Richards was fortunate to stay on the field for a studs-first lunge on Young that sent the former Aston Villa winger flying.
Referee Phil Dowd felt the need to issue some strict instructions to Blues skipper Kompany after another shuddering lunge from Nigel de Jong, this time on Welbeck.
How quickly circumstances can change. Ferguson has already admitted to taking a gamble on De Gea, who - at just 20 - is being asked to fill the boots of a man with twice his age in Edwin van der Sar.

Both these reports go on.

Surely RTE could not be gone so piss poor that it has to steal from Skynews??

py2006

Probably the same journalist emailing his story to both!

Wossack

is a different correspondant credited for the two articles...?

SEPT 23 1989

I blame Mancini

cosmicfart

Moronic reports on football always look and sound like the same crap over and over, just listen to anyone talking about Utd or Liverpool in the pub they all sound like fookin parrots.

Skid

Might have been both lifted from the same NewsAgency wire feed.

101001

Journalism in a lot of places doesnt exist anymore. A lot of it is just press releases re-worded and in this case, probably not even reworded. Im not sure if it wouldve been from the news wire/ press agency as that is normally credited. Unless these guys got really lazy

PHB

It's just a wire piece.

A massive amount of articles, particularly relating to International news, are simply wire pieces, centrally written and distributed.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

That's nothing new OP. Plenty of newspapers do that too, instead of hiring some one to cover the story, they buy it off another paper, and instead of putting the journo's name they put the name of the paper they bought it off.

Gillington

Whoever it was certainly has a crush on United and Welbeck!

stovelid

Maybe they have all been cobbled together from the same agency news feed or press release?

Plagiarism is a bit strong as a) it's hardly Pulitzer journalism or art and b) a lot of people using one news source may not be using the other

super_furry

It's a Press Association story.