Some odd BBC journalism.

I'd like to just quickly draw your attention to this BBC article on Newcastle United's new manager Alan Pardew, and a bizarre editorial choice.

If you've seen a BBC article before, you'll know that they have the article with a picture at the top and then somewhere down in the second half of the page they have a little insert with a comment on the story either from the message board or from a blog by one of their experts.

In this case there is a quote from Phil McNulty who is the BBC's head football writer.
He says : "Pardew's early statements do not speak of a man daunted by the task facing him..."

Yet the very first quote from Alan Pardew in the article reads:

"But it's one of the top five clubs in England. It's a daunting prospect but something I couldn't turn down"

Now.
When a man calls the prospect of a task "daunting", I think it's fair to say he is a man "daunted" by the task.

Phil McNulty is clearly a man baffled by the changing of tense.