Jim fucking white. ‘Pep bristled at the FFP question.’ No he didn’t he bristled at the insinuation that he had taken a bung, you bellend.
The ones who justify Harris' question on the grounds that questions are important would object thoroughly if they were subject to the same thing. Asking questions is fine, but they do have to be justified. Otherwise, we're all free to ask anything we like of them on the same grounds, and - more importantly - they're compelled to answer them.
That they don't like.
I expect most football journalists will have taken a back-hander at some point. I'd be staggered if that wasn't correct.Presumably a legitimate question for such ‘journalists’ would be to ask if they themselves have received payments, kindnesses from third parties to ask such questions and pursue certain agendas at particular times. Quite sure they’d be equally indignant about being asked, but the lines between whose employ football journalists are in are increasingly blurred, which makes the question moot.
Six months of press conferences to ask that question.
If they've asked in writing and got no answer, it's likely because that would lend credence to the leaked emails (which the club avoided until very recently).
I don't mind in principle the question being asked. But if questioning is legitimate, then questioning the motives of journalists is also legitimate, and that question was specifically to attempt to cast aspersions. Fine, then the same can be done to them - that's what they object to when it happens. Journalists often seem to believe they are a higher authority, and they are not. They are every bit as worthy of scrutiny as anyone else. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?