Are sports journalists bad sports?

The Sunday Telegraph's rugby writer Paul Ackford, in trying to make sense of England's surprise victory over Australia, writes of sports journalism: "Reputations and opinions which can take years to acquire and form can be trashed within 80 minutes. And I fully accept that the newspaper business is partly to blame. These days it seems it is only acceptable to oscillate between beatification or vilification. Players, coaches, referees are either the greatest ever or the worst ever. There is never any middle ground and we pundits ply our trade in the age of instant justifications." (Via Telegraph blogs)