BringBackSwales
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TGR said:BringBackSwales said:It is pretty clear what has happened here. What do politicians do when they want to get a message across to the public, when they want to justify an unpopular or a controversial decision - they brief a chosen member of the press. Football clubs media relations departments are no different - if they want to get a message across which justifies the decisions of their higher ups then they brief a chosen member of the press - the story gets printed (which in this case is a one-sided miscellaneous list of negative issues associated with Mancini from within the club over three and a half years - not nice things, but a list of events which when not put into perspective paints a pretty bad picture of the sacked manager) and the message which then gets put across to the punters is basically "oh what a horrible man, of course the club were right to sack him". So in my opinion rather than the press being the bad bastards here, what would anyone expect Ladyman to do if he has been briefed about all these "incidents" - ignore it, or publish it - indeed what would any journalist do when spoon-fed this information?
Also in the real world it is pretty likely that the same thing probably happens in this forum - it is regularly accessed by probably more City fans who are interested in and influenced by news than most (any?) other sources - is it not likely that some of the anti-Mancini ITK stuff that has been seen in this forum for the last few weeks has been passed on by "briefers" from City? And of course it would only be the bad stuff that gets "briefed".
The other issue for me is that this list is predomoninately either things we already knew (he did not get on with Bellers - but who did? he did not get on with Ade-but who did?, Robbie was hard work, oh really!) or nasty little bitchy snipes such as he went to tanning salons or shops (what a fucking tyrant!) or one of his aides accompanied his Mrs to the "plush" David Lloyd Centre (quite a reasonable thing to do I would have said given the family's high profile) - just a load of nasty and irrelevant digs. Frankly when I read the list I sense worse behaviour from many of the players than I do the manager - who appears the more unprofessional?
It happens in politics, it happens in football, and I suppose as such that is today's real world, but it still leaves a very nasty and bitter taste in my mouth. It also might explain why Mancini was so irate about his lack of support from his own club with the media - I imagine he was also of the view that rather than being supported with the media by the club, the opposite may well have been happening, and unfortunately still is.
-- Sat May 18, 2013 9:28 am --
BringBackSwales said:It is pretty clear what has happened here. What do politicians do when they want to get a message across to the public, when they want to justify an unpopular or a controversial decision - they brief a chosen member of the press. Football clubs media relations departments are no different - if they want to get a message across which justifies the decisions of their higher ups then they brief a chosen member of the press - the story gets printed (which in this case is a one-sided miscellaneous list of negative issues associated with Mancini from within the club over three and a half years - not nice things, but a list of events which when not put into perspective paints a pretty bad picture of the sacked manager) and the message which then gets put across to the punters is basically "oh what a horrible man, of course the club were right to sack him". So in my opinion rather than the press being the bad bastards here, what would anyone expect Ladyman to do if he has been briefed about all these "incidents" - ignore it, or publish it - indeed what would any journalist do when spoon-fed this information?
The other issue for me is that this list is predomoninately either things we already knew (he did not get on with Bellers - but who did? he did not get on with Ade-but who did?, Robbie was hard work, oh really!) or nasty little bitchy snipes such as he went to tanning salons or shops (what a fucking tyrant!) or one of his aides accompanied his Mrs to the "plush" David Lloyd Centre (quite a reasonable thing to do I would have said given the family's high profile) - just a load of nasty and irrelevant digs. Frankly when I read the list I sense worse behaviour from many of the players than I do the manager - who appears the more unprofessional?
It happens in politics, it happens in football, and I suppose as such that is today's real world, but it still leaves a very nasty and bitter taste in my mouth. It also might explain why Mancini was so irate about his lack of support from his own club with the media - I imagine he was also of the view that rather than being supported with the media by the club, the opposite may well have been happening, and unfortunately still is.
Spot on!
I have just posted something similar. It is complete and total disgrace! It genuinely is. Just what the fuck is going on inside our club?!
I have written if the club did brief Ladyman on this then we are morally bankrupt it makes anything that goes on across town at the swamp look kindergarten.
if the club did not know anything about this then Ladyman has to be banned. There is no other possible course of action. What's the bets Ladyman is at the game tomorrow? A sad, grubby, dirty episode in the clubs history - just what have we become?
that's how it works pal - you write what the club's spin doctors want you to right then you get rewarded for it - watch out for Ladyboy getting an exclusive in the near future - sad and pathetic and not what I ever thought football has ever been about, my how the game has changed
