It’s great to see the Manchester Evening News experimenting with blogging on their website.

And though one or two blogs seem strangely inactive as yet, it’s also encouraging to see one - Mike Whalley’s World Cup - making the print edition of the newspaper too.

It’s a good read and I’m following it daily.

But the print column (entitled ‘Whalley’s World Cup’) rather arrogantly assumes the reader has some clue who ‘Whalley’ is. I, for one, did not.

And just because the copy is taken from a blog - a medium notorious for its factual and grammatical howlers - that doesn’t excuse the lack of subbing on today’s print version.

“I had a rant about FIFA’s ticketing strategy on this blog last Thursday,” it states early on, making another assumption that the reader knows what the source is.

I pity any internet-illiterate MEN readers out there.

The paragraph that follows throws up two further lapses:

“Officially, all tickets have sold out. So right now, if you want to buy a ticket officially, the only way to do so is to from a fan who wants to sell theirs through FIFA, using a ridiculously-complicated and cumbersome transfer system.”

I don’t blame the author himself but the first, in particularly, is bread-and-butter for any sub, surely?

No matter what the publication, mistakes in print make me cringe and frown simultaneously. So, with forehead resembling corrugated card, I quickly scoured the page opposite.

Three outright errors and three lazy punctuations later, I sighed and got off the bus.