Is it any surprise that info from LCFC is....

[davieG]

Shit!

Lawrie's the driver

Leicester chairman Milan Mandaric, who has been on bail since November 2007 on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and false accounting, has made yet another change in his communications team. The well-regarded Jon Sanders, who ran the Leicester media operation for 10 years, was replaced at the start of the season by local reporter Bill Anderson, but that didn't work. Nor did bringing in a PR man, Dean Eldridge. Now Milan is banking on former footballer Lawrie Madden's advice on media matters.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-1...d-Two-Jobs.html

[haraven]

If we were in Italy and our owner's name was Silvio "Thank god for myself and my weenie" Berlusconi this would make perfect sence - media control - but since this is Leicester City it is absoloute rubbish at best, or terrible journalism at worst.

[hairy]

It makes me smile that the Daily Mail wrote that

[Webbo]

Have I missed something? The article is saying that Milan got rid of 1 press officer and then another and now he's got somebody else. How is that bad journalism or ironic coming from the Mail?

[davieG]

Have I missed something? The article is saying that Milan got rid of 1 press officer and then another and now he's got somebody else. How is that bad journalism or ironic coming from the Mail?

Milan got rid of 1 press officer and then another, and then another and now he's got somebody else all within 4 months - makes him piss poor at choosing the right person to do a job but then we know that from his reputation for picking football managers.

It also not very conducive to having a consistent strategy and output for your media matters

[Webbo]

Milan got rid of 1 press officer and then another, and then another and now he's got somebody else all within 4 months - makes him piss poor at choosing the right person to do a job but then we know that from his reputation for picking football managers.

It also not very conducive to having a consistent strategy and output for your media matters

I'm not disputing that. It was more a comment on Hairy's and Haraven's remarks after.

[hairy]

ironic coming from the Mail?

Coming from a failing paper thats reader numbers are in decline that City are poor at media communications, yes.

[harpendenfox]

Coming from a failing paper thats reader numbers are in decline that City are poor at media communications, yes.

few would argue that the Club's communications through its most easily accessible medium, its website, are pathetic.

A collection of composite articles with insert name here from the playing or management staff saying how the fans have been great, the twelvth man, and that tickets for this weekend's mouthwatering clash with Friar Lane Old Boys are now on sale for just £109.99, with a chance to buy an extra ticket for any new born babies less than 10 days old for just £39.99, and that tickets are 'selling fast' and a spokesman advising fans 'to buy early to avoid disappointment.

I quite enjoyed that little rant. I thank you

[Daggers]

Tickets for the mouth-watering clash are selling out quickly, did I hear someone say?

Fuck! I'd better get on the phone now and order me some.

[Flynny]

Do you reckon he appoints a new one, checks here and then groans that we're all still moaning and fires them?

If we were top of the league with Alistair Campbell running the show we'd still be moaning like fuck

[davieG]

Tanner is at least pleased with the latest recruit.

The last time I wrote about covering a City press conference it generated a big reaction, mostly negative and nearly all aimed in my direction (I am not a West Bromwich Albion fan by the way). I criticised the club for its handling of the West Brom pre-match press conference, so it is only fair that I now give them a big thumbs up for the way City have responded.

Since the last press conference, former Sheffield Wednesday defender Lawrie Madden, who became a journalist and a lecturer in Sheffield after he retired as a player, has been asked to help organise the club’s media department and what a difference that has made already. A cracking signing by City.

I think having a former team-mate to trust and confide in, and also advise him, has brought out the best in Nigel Pearson in a sphere of football management that, I think it is fair to say, he would rather do without.

This week we had a sit down with him in his office and he came across much more relaxed, confident and happy. The air of mistrust had evaporated and Nigel tackled every question asked with a smile on his face. He even looked as if he was enjoying himself, although that maybe going too far.

TIN.adverts.adWriteDC('article-detail-impact-tile', '452x118'); His office was not too big but, in front of his desk, was a two-seater sofa for his guests and an oval table with chairs, where no doubt he discusses team selection with his staff.

On the wall was the traditional tactics board, complete with magnets, although no clues to how City will line up on Saturday were evident, unless he is seriously thinking of using Chris Weale behind the front two in a 2-1-3-2-2-1 formation and a large flat screen tv for reviewing video of the latest games and the next opponents.

Football managers’ offices are normally sparse, due to the precarious nature of the job, but one thing did attract my eye about Nigel’s office was the motivational literature that adorned the one wall.

It was evidence, if any was needed, that Pearson believes strongly in his side being as mentally strong as they are physically. You can almost imagine him quoting the phrases to the players before each game and sending them out feeling like the best in the world.

I bet even Nicky Adams would feel seven feet tall after a Pearson pep-talk.