Its often said by journo's that wenger is quite open and friendly to the press and always give a good Interview
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Its often said by journo's that wenger is quite open and friendly to the press and always give a good Interview
Have you see any??? She admits that Kenny is very friendly before and after, and maybe Wenger is, too, but we've all seen Wenger in press conferences and unless the weak-backed bastard has won by a shed load he's surly, miserable, bitter, defensive, evasive, unhelpful - anything BUT 'friendly'!
I'm fairly certain that was sarcasm GK
Apparently he's very friendly to a lot of journos before press conferences.
But that's what the journalist said of Kenny, so I don't see what the point was. Wenger's almost always a miserable git actually during press conferences.
In neither case are/were they either smug or dishonest. They were/are simply the expression of a belief, and a justified one IMO, that we owe the media sweet Football Association and that saying anything of substance will only be twisted around to their own purposes anyway, so say f'ck all and don't bother hiding the fact.
I agree. Say fuck all or give a proper interview.
The 'I never seen it' with a knowing shit eating grin makes me want to smash my TV.
Worse still is the lie answer cf-Carroll dive.
It isn't easy saying f'ck all without doing things like that though.
Uncalled for
The article is about press conferences, where I always find Kenny very amusing. He only irritates them because they don't get much copy, and they are just too small-minded to realise that's not his problem. They get furious with his 'one match at a time' comments, without recognising that he's absolutely entitled to adopt that policy. Then Vinnie O'Connor, like all Sky hacks, asks a question that all of his colleagues will ask other managers so that SSN can do a 'Everyone's talking about it' feature, and Kenny will refuse to play ball - again, absolutely right. Then he'll point out he can't confirm when someone's back from injury when not even the medical team is sure yet - again, fine. The press are completely in the wrong complaining about kenny's press conferences - if more managers responded as he did they'd soon start making more of an effort to ask sensible questions.
I think that's very true. To be honest I don't have any memories of enjoyable press conferences under any manager except when things were going super and the press were probably trying to work an 'everything is now super at Liverpool' line.
He was like that first time round though, not that it makes it ok, but putting up a stern defence of his players in public has always been his way, he's also quite similar to Rafa in being smarmy and quick with a bite back to the press, which I personally wouldn't hold against him, they're mostly cunts who will stab you in the back at the first opportunity anyway - as we well know.
I think his media handling is the least of our worries and the silly bint who just compared Wenger more favourably needs a fucking reality pill.
Perhaps Kenny should pull into Anfield every transfer deadline day and give cheesy interviews from his car window and have some overseas tax evading funds in a dodgy bank account somewhere, maybe then he'll be considered as a proper nice 'geezer'.
I'm not really arsed about the media, they've always been keen to kick us while we're down (and let's not get started on the aftermath of Hillsborough), so any ramblings in the press these days are neither here nor there, unless they sink to the depths that Woy took them to.
You know what, I'm so fucking glad you said that.
I've been meaning to type that for weeks but didn't bother cos I knew it'd just add fuel to the notion that I hate Dalglish.
It's true, I'm not a big admirer these days, but his treatment of the media, and the press in particulart is pathetic if you ask me. It's not cool or fashionable to degrade someone who's essentially doing their job. standing there being obtuse, evasive and downright rude just because someone's asking you a question is shit if you ask me.
You're reaping the rewards of it now too; cos every cunt with a pen is lining up to point out the fucking mess we are, and rightly so - you reap what you sow.
Yes, because the press never distorts the story to get a headline and sell papers. Honest hard working journalists, they are. Yessiree.
It's not his way of handling the press that is the problem. He can be quite funny.
If we were winning, his remarks with the press would be considered lighthearted banter, because he'd be asking questions like "you've got a bit of a selection headache don't you" and "X player is in a fantastic run of form right now, isn't he".
There's no one so charming and personable that they can cope with explaining why they lost to some shit team again, and again, and again. They just have to take their medicine. No one looks good doing it. He gave a public kick up the ass once this season. It would look silly to do now. He has on many occasions indicated we were unlucky to lose, when it becomes a pattern, it looks bad.
What is he meant to say exactly, and no, honesty would not be good.
If we were winning, his remarks with the press would be considered lighthearted banter, because he'd be asking questions like "you've got a bit of a selection headache don't you" and "X player is in a fantastic run of form right now, isn't he".
There's no one so charming and personable that they can cope with explaining why they lost to some shit team again, and again, and again. They just have to take their medicine. No one looks good doing it. He gave a public kick up the ass once this season. It would look silly to do now. He has on many occasions indicated we were unlucky to lose, when it becomes a pattern, it looks bad.
What is he meant to say exactly, and no, honesty would not be good.
As if they weren't going to do that anyway, which is why he treats them with the contempt they deserve.
'So, you won - are you pleased with that?'
'So, points dropped - how disappointed are you about that?'
'About the next match - do you expect to win it?'
'I know you've made it clear that you won't talk about players at other clubs, but would you like to buy X?'
'He's injured - that must be a disappointment?'
'You started well and then conceded a goal - how disappointing was that?'
These and many other questions are asked time and again by journalists, and if you genuinely think they deserve anything but contempt I suggest you need psychiatric help. The reason they keep being asked is that hardly any managers are bright enough to recognise how brain-numbingly asinine they are. When one does, that manager gets branded as 'rude'. We need far more 'rude' managers, and far fewer Redknapps.
'So, points dropped - how disappointed are you about that?'
'About the next match - do you expect to win it?'
'I know you've made it clear that you won't talk about players at other clubs, but would you like to buy X?'
'He's injured - that must be a disappointment?'
'You started well and then conceded a goal - how disappointing was that?'
These and many other questions are asked time and again by journalists, and if you genuinely think they deserve anything but contempt I suggest you need psychiatric help. The reason they keep being asked is that hardly any managers are bright enough to recognise how brain-numbingly asinine they are. When one does, that manager gets branded as 'rude'. We need far more 'rude' managers, and far fewer Redknapps.
So why should managers care if the journalists ask contemptible questions? Why's it any skin off their noses? Answer with a straight bat, fine, but what's to gain from being deliberately hostile, flippant or 'clever'?
Okay, Peter, let's get someone to ask you about your day every day with such trite questions as 'So, Peter, you woke up this morning - are you happy about that?' I doubt it will take long for you to find it all a bit tiresome, and your straight bat will come down on said interviewer's head. And there's little that's 'hostile' in Kenny's reactions, he just doesn't use the idiotic question as a cue for a ten minute ramble like Redknapp does.
Quite, which is exactly why the press love him (Redknapp), he's old school and largely inoffensive and a bit of a loveable rogue for the cockney faithful. Fuck the fact that loveable rogue actually reads 'questionable business dealings'. He's El Tel Mark II.
And exactly why he's the obvious candidate for the England job.
And exactly why he's the obvious candidate for the England job.
If that was part of my well-paid job rather than just part of my day I reckon I could bear the strain, and at the same time hardly believe my luck.
I don't think he takes the strain badly at all, he's no more contemptuous than Rafa was. He's generally approachable and easy going, he just doesn't suffer fools either. I think people are reading far too much into this to back up whatever opinion they've already shaped.
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