RoboFox Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 All this debate over Pearson and Murphy, this journalist, that journalist... Has anyone spared a thought for Ian Stringer in all this? FoxesTalk has gone for 48 hours without someone slagging him off. Poor guy must be feeling dejected.
Fox Ulike Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 All this debate over Pearson and Murphy, this journalist, that journalist... Has anyone spared a thought for Ian Stringer in all this? FoxesTalk has gone for 48 hours without someone slagging him off. Poor guy must be feeling dejected. Good point. Stringer you’re a moon-faced butt plug. The balance of the Universe has been restored.
dmayne7 Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 My complaint has been submitted: http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/#anchor In the aftermath of Nigel Pearson's unwelcome outburst at the reporter; Ian Baker, during a post-match press conference, Pearson offered a public apology to Baker in Leicester City's pre-match press conference against Newcastle United. What followed was shameless, hypocritical and aggressive behaviour from Pat Murhpy.I understand that as a journalist, he has to ask those type of questions and if he gets a reaction from Pearson, similar to the night before, then it will make a more interesting article. However, the matter had been put to bed and PM's insistence on trying to goad and antagonise NP was pretty low. It was a pre-match press conference, designed to discuss the upcoming match so I'm not quite sure as to PM's reasons behind this attack. The fact of the matter is, that the BBC is not a tabloid news outlet and as such, should be above such behaviour. A public broadcaster is hold accountable to the people so its only right that PM is reprimanded in some manner. To criticise Pearson for defending his players, then for Murphy to say that he is defending his fellow journalist, is crass. Then to call NP a bully as he insists on a character assassination, is again, disgustingly hypocritical. As a senior correspondent, I would have expected much better from PM. The fact that fellow journalists had words with him and have condemned his behaviour says a lot. On balance, I think it is only fair that he issue a public apology in the same manner in which Nigel Pearson had to.
Wilson_6 Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 Would it not be a good idea to close this thread now. its done now lets just concentrate on the football.
Lambert09 Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 Isn't pat murphy the guy in Alan partridge who takes over the radio station with a gun? Haha
Gerard Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 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. statethebleedingobvious.com If the next game is always the most important then the term loses it's significance. It's like saying all children are special. As things stand our most important fixture left is Sunderland away.
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Wilson_6 Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 statethebleedingobvious.com If the next game is always the most important then the term loses it's significance. It's like saying all children are special. As things stand our most important fixture left is Sunderland away. Not really. If we beat Newcastle and Southampton then we are pretty much safe and the last 2 don't really matter at all.
dmayne7 Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 Not really. If we beat Newcastle and Southampton then we are pretty much safe and the last 2 don't really matter at all. Whatever happens Sunderland is pretty much, must not lose. Unless they have played their game in hand by then (Don't know when it is) and lost all 3 before our match thus it being mathematically impossible for them to catch us.
Gerard Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 Not really. If we beat Newcastle and Southampton then we are pretty much safe and the last 2 don't really matter at all. If you could pick one game left to guarantee a win what would it be? Show me someone who wouldn't say Sunderland and I'll show you an idiot.
psychonaut Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 Whatever happens Sunderland is pretty much, must not lose. Unless they have played their game in hand by then (Don't know when it is) and lost all 3 before our match thus it being mathematically impossible for them to catch us. Their game in hand is V Arsenal and its held midweek on the final week before the last set of PL games. So being 6 points clear of them with one game left is no guarantee of them not catching us - dependant on goal differance of course.
Guest Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 All this debate over Pearson and Murphy, this journalist, that journalist... Has anyone spared a thought for Ian Stringer in all this? FoxesTalk has gone for 48 hours without someone slagging him off. Poor guy must be feeling dejected. Don't worry, he'll get his. Hopefully he's removed by Radio Leicester this off season. Maybe he can get a job working with his favourite team instead.
Guest Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 statethebleedingobvious.com If the next game is always the most important then the term loses it's significance. It's like saying all children are special. As things stand our most important fixture left is Sunderland away. At long last you get it.
Master Fox Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 Pat Murphy is trying to create a name for himself. Those questions were absurd. He should go and throw himself off a ****ing bridge the twat. Basically this can all be tracked back to Stringer being an absolute cockend. Nige hasn't really done anything wrong.
Guest Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 If you could pick one game left to guarantee a win what would it be? Show me someone who wouldn't say Sunderland and I'll show you an idiot. No-one can guarantee a win. but as sheep country said win the next 2 and Sunderland isn't so important is it? and dependant on other results may be insignificant. Don't be an ostrich Gerard. Their game in hand is V Arsenal and its held midweek on the final week before the last set of PL games. So being 6 points clear of them with one game left is no guarantee of them not catching us - dependant on goal differance of course. May be enough to condemn Villa though.
Dr The Singh Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 No-one can guarantee a win. but as sheep country said win the next 2 and Sunderland isn't so important is it? and dependant on other results may be insignificant. Don't be an ostrich Gerard. May be enough to condemn Villa though. Is he flexible enough????
davieG Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 Sky Sports Rob Dorsett brings us the inside track on 'Ostrich-gate'Last Updated: 01/05/15 6:44pm Leicester City manager Nigel Pearson has found himself in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons this season Sky Sports Midlands reporter Rob Dorsett relays events at Leicester in the wake of 'Ostrich-gate'. Wednesday morning, pitch-side at the Kingpower Stadium; with long-handled forks, they are repairing the damage done the night before. Inside Leicester's media suite, the manager is doing the same, in faltering words. There are twice as many cameras and journalists as normal - something that has always annoyed Nigel Pearson, when the 'news' journalists smell blood and sit amongst those he considers 'sport' journos. I start my first question, ready to tackle the issue of 'Ostrich-gate' head on; but three words in, Pearson interrupts me: "Before we start - Ian, because you're here - apologies for last night. I think it's right to do it in front of the cameras rather than pull you to one side, and I hope it doesn't ruin our relationship." It's unexpected. And steals my thunder, but many questions still remain. Why was Pearson so angered by a journalist who had seemingly asked a fairly innocuous question in the post-match media conference? "They wheel us out straight after games," Pearson told me. "I don't like losing. I felt for the players, who've worked very hard again to try to keep the run going. We were beaten by a very good side, but it is frustrating." Is it just pressure, I ask, that made him react like that? "Maybe," he says. "It's emotion, as much as anything. I'm not afraid of showing my emotions. I get labelled with certain things, certain titles - that's people's prerogatives in some ways. And I'm happy to fight my own corner, but I'll also accept when I'm out of line, which is why I think Ian is due an apology." The "Ian" - Ian Baker - a Midlands-based agency reporter who, when I left the stadium on Thursday evening, was preparing for his sixth radio interview of the day, several of which were from overseas. Baker is now the second-most famous journalist in the Midlands - his crown stolen by the BBC's radio man in the Midlands - Pat Murphy, whose attack on Pearson in the same press conference I've never seen the like of in 20 years in the industry. To every other journalist in the room - including some BBC colleagues - the overriding feeling was how well Pearson kept his cool amid the torrent of accusations from Murphy, which included calling him a "bully", "paranoid" and "in need of an anger-management course." Before that bemusing exchange, I asked Pearson why his character is so different away from the media glare. When I'm not sticking a camera in his face, Pearson is amiable, charming and philosophical: always asking about your welfare, cracking a joke, and happy to discuss openly the finer points of football, tactics and how strange his life has become in the goldfish-bowl of the Premier League. Not that I would ever suggest it's easy to win Pearson's "trust" (a key word for the Leicester manager). I've known him since his time as assistant to Bryan Robson at West Brom more than 10 years ago, and I've had more than one or two run-ins with him in the past. He's a complex character, but off camera, he will tell you he feels he's not acting any differently now, to how he has always acted in 17 years of coaching. It's just the scrutiny is so much greater in the Premier League. And it has been a bizarre season for Leicester City and their main man. It started very positively in the summer, with the club-record signing of Leonardo Ulloa in July and a point from the opening game against Everton in August - a game in which Ulloa got off the mark straight away. A first Premier League win soon followed, over Stoke City, and then that staggering 5-3 victory over Manchester United in October, that left every pundit certain that Leicester would stay up easily. But then things started to go awry. Immediately after the win over Manchester United, Leicester had 13 winless games. They were bottom of the table at Christmas. And Pearson found himself at the centre of a number of controversies that had little to do with football. There was the expletive-filled row with a Leicester 'fan' in December (Pearson still refuses to call him that, as ardently as he refuses to apologise to the man); the bizarre pitch-side grapple with Crystal Palace's James McArthur in February, and the even more bizarre post match interview when Pearson said he "could handle himself". And then later that month, the weirdest incident of the lot: Pearson was sacked by one member of the Thai family that owns Leicester City - I reported that fact on Sky Sports News HQ. But then for three hours, while another member of the Thai family tried to contact Pearson to reverse the decision, the club was manageress and in limbo. Pearson had turned his phone off. That incident understandably hurt Pearson. It was he who had to face the media and face questions about what had happened - there was no comment from his bosses, except a bland statement to say Pearson was still in charge. If "trust" is a buzz word for him, so is "loyalty". And after that, I noticed him retreat ever further into the bosom of his squad and staff - all of whom, are utterly devoted to him. And whether it's been deliberate or not, Pearson has taken a lot of the pressure off, and the focus away from, his players. The siege mentality created at Leicester is working. I hear none of the rumblings from Leicester players who aren't currently making the squad - the sort of disgruntled noises that are commonplace at so many other clubs. The squad is incredibly tight-knit; and that is by the manager's design. Four consecutive Premier League wins is testimony to the squad's belief, and stubborn refusal to accept they may be relegated. Pearson is right when he says, repeatedly, that Leicester have "been in every game this season." Never have Leicester lost by more than two goals, and only twice all season have they lost by that margin to a team outside the Premier League's top seven. So I don't expect Pearson to change. He will continue his brusque, abrasive style with journalists he doesn't respect, and in response to questions he deems unworthy of him. I remember I got a flea in my ear when I flippantly asked him earlier in the season if he was interested in the Aston Villa job, after Paul Lambert's sacking. Quite rightly, he said my question "lacked class". A staunch supporter of the League Manager's Association, Pearson has a genuine and mutual respect for the other men in his line of work, and in his eyes, I'd been disrespectful to Poyet. Back at the "Ostrich-gate" media conference, I asked him how he thinks he comes across in the media. "I don't know. It is right for me to portray what I want to portray. I am not here to win any popularity contests, and I don't think I will be in the running for any either." He's right about that. Unless there's a popularity contest run by Leicester fans, few of whom have turned against their manager this season, even during the most testing times. And if Leicester can sustain a position outside the relegation places come the end of the season, popular or not, there are very few people out there who won't have the utmost respect for Nigel Pearson and the job he has done.
foxer Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 Rob Dorsett has pretty much nailed it there - Simply by reporting a balanced view of the bloke. Haters still gonna hate though.
Freeman's Wharfer Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 That's a great article by Dorssett. Makes sense of quite a few things. I do think Pearson will get to this summer, look back on this season and it'll hit him. If we stay up I would predict that we'll get a different (better) Nigel Pearson, no matter how much he insists he'll never change. It'll be an inevitable, natural process.
Raj Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 I hammered NP after his McCarthy incident and BUT i dont have any negativity to NP after the last couple of days as I actually think he can take some credit for how he's behaved. Yes he was way OTT to the journo on Wed,but he did apologise directly to him and fair play. It was obvious Pat Murphy had an agenda. I wouldn't wanna be him next time he meets NP
Larry_LCFC Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 Decent article by Dorsett, although to be fair, I wouldn't dare cross Pearson again after his blunder a few months ago
Manwell Pablo Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 Don't worry, he'll get his. Hopefully he's removed by Radio Leicester this off season. Maybe he can get a job working with his favourite team instead. It's funny actually because I actually think stringer has a big part to play in this. I mean if I was sat in front of Pat Murphy whilst he lectured me on what great support the midlands media had showed me this season while my own local radio presenter and commentator had been coming out with lines such as "is that the end for Nigel Pearson" before the situation had even looked remotely desperate, not to mention the cut throat gesture. I'd have a serious problem keeping a straight face. I just hope we stay up and he sticks to fingers up at the lot of them. Not least because if we do go down it will all no doubt be solely because of the infamous "ostrich rant"
Tuna Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 Pat Murphy has a hard on for Pearson. There was some sort of exchange during the throttlegate/sackgate press conference where Pearson said something to annoy him, I remember Murphy on the Monday night club commenting something along the lines of 'i will not take lectures on journalism from Nigel Pearson'. The 'Anger Management' comment was personal and out of order; Murphy was clearly attempting to goad Nigel. Nigel I felt handled the questions very well. Most media today are criticizing Murphy, even Mark Chapman seemed uncomfortable reporting on it tonight on five live.
wurmer Posted 1 May 2015 Posted 1 May 2015 Pearson has actually gone up massively in my estimation with how he has handled himself today, I've been impressed at how he handled himself to the most blatant and disrespectful baiting I've ever seen in a media interview. Never thought I'd be saying that. Great article by Dorsett.
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