The Lie: Things are happening. In the North East, Sky Sports' reporter David Craig has something of a reputation. He was known as "Newcastle's man" thanks to rumours that he was something of an inside man at St James' Park and the club knew they could use him as a mouth-piece. With that in mind, Craig gathered a lot of venom back when Andy Carroll was sold to Liverpool because he apparently played a part in completely fabricating a last minute move for Bryan Ruiz to cover the loss of the big Geordie. Whether his part was over-exaggerated or not, Newcastle fans now view anything and everything he says as similarly untrustworthy. He's of course not the only one of Sky Sports' roaming reporters (who never seem to roam far from the car park gates) to spin news out of nothing, but that's the nature of the beast, and the majority of his cohorts prefer to exaggerate little rather than falsely reporting in order to whip up some excitement over nothing. And he can't pronounce Hatem Ben Arfa.
