How we dealt with Mourinho's exit
| 13:16 UK time, Friday, 21 September 2007
Mourinho leaving Chelsea… the biggest sports story of the year? Almost certainly, for many of the reasons my colleague Richard has explained in his blog.
So did you feel the 91Èȱ¬ did it justice?
We hope your answer is yes, and also hope that we managed to demonstrate yesterday how the various bits of our sports news operation can come together to give you the best possible coverage of a big story.
From Jonathan Legard's initial reports late on Wednesday night, to Garry Richardson's exclusive about Avram Grant taking over first thing on Thursday morning well before any other broadcaster, and Mihir Bose's insights throughout, our aim was to set the agenda by bringing and explaining all those updates to you, whether you were watching TV, listening on radio or logging onto the internet.
(Or indeed keeping in touch via your phone - as I know only too well given I was actually out of the office on a course yesterday but jumped out of bed rather more quickly than normal when I read the story on my mobile!)
Certainly in terms of the web, we had a record numbers of users yesterday - 3.7m (just pipping the 3.65m we had the day after the 2006 football World Cup final) - which suggests plenty of you did follow the story with us.
It also gave us a good opportunity to trial a brand new style of sport front page sometimes used by our news colleagues. It's not one we plan to use very often, and will reserve it for the really huge sporting news stories or live events, but it did enable us to make a real impact with the Mourinho line (and Garry's exclusive) and also package together the various components of our Mourinho coverage, including video, audio, comment, analysis and interactivity.
For those of who you didn't spot it - maybe you went straight to our football page and skipped the Sport front page - there is a screen grab here.
What do you think? Over-the-top? Or a great way to bring everything together?
Indeed, is there anything else would you liked to see from us as a whole on a story like this? More? Less? Angles we didn't cover? A different way of packaging it or you being able to access the news?
All feedback gratefully received, because no matter which form of media you generally use, we want to make sure the 91Èȱ¬ is the place you keep coming to for your sports news...
