chapero82 Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 He did exactly call him a ostrich though, all he was implying was that the reporter must have had his head buried in the sand.
Larry_LCFC Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 @ people saying tomorrow is our most important game of the season.You lost your right to an opinion when you picked that font. Have a word.
Babylon Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 You lost your right to an opinion when you picked that font. Have a word. Absolutely.
dedlock Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 This is such a lot of nonsense,fuelled and exaggerated by the inflated egos and self importance of a handful of journalists. Particularly sad that Pat Murphy,who should know better,got involved.His intervention reflects poorly on him rather than NP>
shailen Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 The next game is always the most important - what's your problem? Always this. If we did not go into games with this mentality then we are done for. We are in no position to prioritize, especially with only 4 games left. We go full strength in every single game, with the full emphasis on the next game. What's the point of looking at the Sunderland and QPR games if we go on and lose the next two. One game at a time please.
Fox Ulike Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 All pure conjecture. For all we know, he might as well have started prepping up for Newcastle since last weekend. errr, Hullo. As is 99.99% of FT... 26,878 posts and you've just come to that conclusion I will smile at you because I can afford to smile at you.
inckley fox Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 I see it as another irrelevance. Part of me thinks he was worried about injuries, pressure being back on etc. and thought attention would be best focused on him being weird rather than on his side's toils. It was bizarre, pretty hilarious, innocuous. I agree that it was probably contrived, of course, but the 'I can, you can't' bit... I don't know, that seemed to imply that he is some sort of King Ostrich who can pass judgement on other would-be ostriches. Whatever, if he saves us he'll be a hero, if we go down fighting we'll still have plenty to be positive about and hopefully in years to come, in the Premier League, we'll come to enjoy the season our manager went a bit crazy.
Footballwipe Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 The most baffling thing for me is that a lot of fans seem to be cheering on Murphy as some kind of hero in all this. I'm sure they'd feel the same if it was their own manager's mental health being questioned in public, and ranted against.
Guest Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 The Chelsea game wasn't. I agree the next 4 games could all be 'the biggest game of the season' Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Chelsea was the last game. Last games are not at all important.
Guest Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 The greatest football manager this country has ever seen wouldn't agree with you. Sir Alex Ferguson regularly pulled players out of matches and told them that he was deliberately focusing them on a game 2-3 weeks down the line and they had to prepare accordingly because he needed them on their best for that day. No game is more important than any other, they are all equal and Ferguson recognised that and gave different players time to rest and focus on their next "big game". It's all mind games and brilliant man management. 1. He's never managed the City. 2. How many survival scraps has he been in? 3. As Jose would say "what's he won in the last couple of years?" 4. You missed my point.
Carl the Llama Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 Just to be clear not all fans of other teams think Pearson's made a twat of himself: At work early on Thursday the Liverpool fan came over all "you see what happened with Pearson?" I started explaining that yeah, he looked a bit silly, but before I could clarify events he cut me off to start praising the way someone had finally had a go at the tabloid media style lines of interrogation. So if you're the type to get bothered by other fans' opinions, I wouldn't actually be that fussed anyway.
shailen Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 The greatest football manager this country has ever seen wouldn't agree with you. Sir Alex Ferguson regularly pulled players out of matches and told them that he was deliberately focusing them on a game 2-3 weeks down the line and they had to prepare accordingly because he needed them on their best for that day. No game is more important than any other, they are all equal and Ferguson recognised that and gave different players time to rest and focus on their next "big game". It's all mind games and brilliant man management. SAF had one of the greatest squads available to him, and usually would have a number of different competitions to focus on. When you have the likes of Berbatov and Tevez in reserve, you can afford to rest and rotate players. It's such an unrealistic comparison. We don't have that depth in our squad especially when you consider we haves the likes of GTF and Bakagayo in our squad. When you have a Champions League game in midweek, you can afford to rest certain players assuming there isn't much pressure on the game. We have 4 games left, and we are in no position to rest and rotate players imo. We have one focus, which is survival and we have to go full strength. What are we resting the players for anyway? Pre-Season? And another thing you'll find is that when the pressure was on, SAF picked his strongest side. In the title run ins he would pick the best side available.
NeilLCFC Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 Idiotic Pearson, just put in his place by BBC reporter Pat Murphy... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32543893 Clean the football= start with managers=Pearson out!!! He is a bully, un-educated and rude! Come on on Foxes! A 'Come on on Foxes!' And Pearson is the uneducated idiot?!
Strokes Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 SAF had one of the greatest squads available to him, and usually would have a number of different competitions to focus on. When you have the likes of Berbatov and Tevez in reserve, you can afford to rest and rotate players. It's such an unrealistic comparison. We don't have that depth in our squad especially when you consider we haves the likes of GTF and Bakagayo in our squad. When you have a Champions League game in midweek, you can afford to rest certain players assuming there isn't much pressure on the game. We have 4 games left, and we are in no position to rest and rotate players imo. We have one focus, which is survival and we have to go full strength. What are we resting the players for anyway? Pre-Season? And another thing you'll find is that when the pressure was on, SAF picked his strongest side. In the title run ins he would pick the best side available.When you look at the alternative replacements to our injury list, its shows just how lacking in depth our squad is.
NeilLCFC Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3063139/Sir-Alex-Ferguson-s-flare-ups-far-worse-Nigel-Pearson-done.html I always thought NP would stay here and achieve as much success as SAF did at Utd, now I'm even more sure.
ealingfox Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 Glad to see even a few journos have called Murphy out for being a twat yesterday.
Guest Col city fan Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 Nonsense. Why would we want to deflect attention from such a good performance? We won many plaudits for our performance against one of the very best teams in Europe. A game in which we gave as good as we got for most of the game, and were within 10 minutes of pulling off a draw. Without Pearson’s idiotic press exchanges, what the press would be talking about now is yet another mightly LCFC performance. The press would probably be speaking of Pearson and Mourinho in the same breath. Instead, Pearson is currently Twitter’s ‘village idiot’. People are laughing at him. He’s in memes with David Brent for goodness sake. What on Earth is ‘brilliant’ about that? Newcastle should be shaking in their boots. Instead, they are thinking that they have got a real chance to cash in on the instability within the Leicester camp. This whole incident has harmed our fight against relegation – be in no doubt about that. And also be aware that should we lose on Saturday, there will be lots of people drawing a direct link between Ostrichgate and our defeat. Absolutely spot on. And this is the potential knock on effect something like this can have. Win on Saturday....and all is forgotten (for now). Lose..and it WILL be brought up. Why do it Nigel? What good can any of it serve? I don't think it was 'planned' or rehearsed in any way. I think it was simply a bloke who loses it when frustrated by the media.
Foxymcoxy Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 Absolutely spot on. And this is the potential knock on effect something like this can have. Win on Saturday....and all is forgotten (for now). Lose..and it WILL be brought up. Why do it Nigel? What good can any of it serve? I don't think it was 'planned' or rehearsed in any way. I think it was simply a bloke who loses it when frustrated by the media. "Loses it" is a bit strong but yeah, obviously that is the cause of it. What I don't see is why that is such a big problem. Our players don't give a shit so if he speaks his mind to a couple of journos I don't give a shit either. Wish he'd pulled out some better chat though tbh.
Guest safetosurfthisbeach Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 Having seen the full 7 minute interview between Pat Murphy and NP I have changed my mind. I think Murphy overestimates his own importance and has conducted himself in an unprofessional and inappropriate matter. NP has his faults but he is not accountable to the BBC. I am going to complain to the BBC - this may not achieve anything and may only make me feel better, but I'll do it anyway.
Babylon Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 I clicked on a link on twitter and it took me to an article laying in to NP again. I scrolled down the comments section expecting a load of abuse aimed at Pearson, incredibly there was a huge amount of support from all over the country and fans of other teams. The positive for Pearson outweighed the negative considerably, but the scorn for Murphy was almost universal. Certainly not what I expected from the bloody Daily Mail website. It seems like Murphy scored a massive own goal for the media there.
Khobar Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 Just had to say - as a Chelsea supporter and probably unwelcome here - well done to Pearson for calling out the scum media. As for Pat Murphy, he came over as a prize dick on his little crusade to defend his fellow journo. Aiming mental health slurs at the manager was a particularly low blow and he should be censured by th BBC. I think most of us would have panned him at that point wouldn't we? In which case Pearson was incredibly restrained. Always good to see the scum media getting a bit of their own medicine, and my how they squeal. Hope you stay up btw, from what I've seen you will.
Guest safetosurfthisbeach Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 For what it's worth, I just lodged this complaint with the BBC Pat Murphy's 7 minute complaint to Nigel Pearson in the televised press conference (following the Leicester City manager's apology to a member of the media) was embarrassing, unnecessary, unprofessional and quite inappropriate. Football managers have a duty to talk to the media but they are not accountable to the BBC. Pat Murphy's questions seemed to have no real purpose other than to antagonise NP and make PM feel better. Who does PM speak on behalf of? What was the point of this line of questioning? Wouldn't Pat Murphy be better off sticking to talking about sport rather than appointing himself as a so-called spokesman for the media? Does his behaviour fit within the guidelines for a BBC reporter? Here is the complaints link:- https://ssl.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms/?reset=#anchor
NZ_Foxile Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 17 pages on this and only 4 pages for the Chelsea post-match thread!
Fox Ulike Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 I clicked on a link on twitter and it took me to an article laying in to NP again. I scrolled down the comments section expecting a load of abuse aimed at Pearson, incredibly there was a huge amount of support from all over the country and fans of other teams. The positive for Pearson outweighed the negative considerably, but the scorn for Murphy was almost universal. Certainly not what I expected from the bloody Daily Mail website. It seems like Murphy scored a massive own goal for the media there. Weirdly I think Murphy has done Pearson a lot of favours. Yes Pearson made a prize plum of himself on Wednesday. But so what? He apologised. We all moved on. Then Murphy comes busting in pompously The question “Do you need anger management classes?” was ruder, and far more inappropriate than anything that Nigel said on Wednesday. I have asked Pat Murphy when he's gonna apologise to Nigel. #apologise2Nigel
gruss101 Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 Nige vs Pat Murphy had the distinct whiff of Brent vs Neil there. "Our perception of your branch was: they're having a laugh." "Thanks very much."
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.