Unabomber Posted 3 December 2014 Posted 3 December 2014 link?? Stringer is like the kid in the back of the car saying "are we there yet?". Except it's "do you fear for your job, Nigel?". I'm glad I've stopped listening to RL. I did it for the first time in a while tonight and it was excruciating listening to hear Stringer reel off the usual shite questions. can you prove it though? link? wow look at all those weird spoiler links I did, must be me bday.
MPH Posted 3 December 2014 Posted 3 December 2014 Really do get the feeling that Stringer has bben looking forward to putting the squeeze on Pearson for a long long time...
roblcfc84 Posted 3 December 2014 Posted 3 December 2014 Ready for the onslaught of abuse. Kind of feels like stringer is being used a scape goat for our poor form and NP distain for the media. Stringer does come across a bit weasily, but it his job to ask these questions and create an angle. That's all journalists I'm afraid. Yeh he may be interested in furthering his career but to be fair aren't we all. Not sure what he did wrong tonight. He has to ask NP about his job, if he didn't it would be weird. It's like because NP gives a little attitude people don't want to ask awkward questions. To be fair can't be easy standing in front of NP and saying so are you getting sacked. What I will say against him is he should try and appear a little more objective and not like he's enjoying it. So right questions, doing his job but not neccisserily in the right way.
leicsmac Posted 3 December 2014 Posted 3 December 2014 If people are getting the "impression" that Pearson is "happy" losing games, then that's clearly a laughable constructed scenario by some sad fans. How can a football manager be made responsible for far-fetched fans' theories? This is all clutching at straws and trying be very nitpicky, alluding to possibilities, without referring to facts. I find it equally laughable that you expect police officers or teachers (!) being exposed to constant abuse, and even abuse of the same level or amount footballers or football managers are exposed to - a handful of deluded fans with their sense of entitlement after having purchased tickets to an event of which they can't know the outcome in advance. Would you call a police officer a willy puller or a teacher a c*nt just because she doesn't meet your criteria of her job profile? Oh no, because it would make you look like a real tw*t. And involve legal consequences. Why on earth can you not see that it makes conducting the job you've chosen to find fulfillment in so much harder? But soz the consequences - shout now, think later. Clearly you've never set foot in a UK classroom. :xmastongue:
Stuliasz Posted 3 December 2014 Posted 3 December 2014 Stringer isn't "just doing his job" if he asks questions in such a way that are less likely to make the manager give a good answer. He needs the manager to be as open as possible and the manner in which he put those questions across was embarrassing for a local journalist. Perhaps Pearson might be inclined to be less blunt and more insightful if he had less of an attention seeking idiot putting good football related questions to him and not making huge deals out of non stories.
MC Prussian Posted 3 December 2014 Posted 3 December 2014 If a teacher, in their professional duties, responds to being called a 'c*nt' by telling somebody to 'f**k off' then they will be fired instantly. I'm not saying it's right that they are called a 'c*nt'. But it is wrong for a person in their position to tell anyone to 'f**k off'. His behaviour was unprofessional today. He did it so that his players pick up the papers tomorrow and see that their manager is going out on a limb to defend them, so that they give their all in the next game. I suspect that professional standards in his line of work aren't as high, in terms of connecting with the public, as they are in pretty much any other line of work, so he'll almost certainly get away with it. And maybe it's a clever, calculated move. But if you want to defend it on moral grounds, then you should also be calling for a nationwide rethink on how professionals deal with criticism and abuse. Do we accept that teachers, policemen, doctors, judges, lawyers, shopkeepers, nurses, social workers, politicians can speak to the public in this way? And what happens if they do? If a teacher or a policeman starts effing at the people they're there to deal with, then they will struggle to manage them effectively. They'll be perpetually in conflict with others. And, I suspect, if Pearson continues to go down this road without having the walk to match the talk, then he'll get himself into a conflict which will cost him his job. Defend Nigel Pearson, and his position at Leicester - yes. Have a go at the moron who gave him a mouthful - yes. Consider the 'spat' a clever move to motivate the side - yes. But why argue that clearly unprofessional conduct is anything other than unprofessional? Your argumentation clearly bases on your worldview that people who are dishing out abuse aren't so much in trouble as the ones taking it. Isn't that mad? We've been talking about it in another thread - as a manager, you're under more and different pressure, not at least thanks to the media. You're much more often under scrutiny and much more often the target of abuse than people in any other position. Not just on matchdays, but also on every day of the week on social media, as well as on TV and on the radio. Because people know your name, maybe even know where you live, know about your family, aso. The potential range of abusers with other people in other professions is a lot smaller. Just because they're footballers or football managers doesn't give people who bought tickets to a football match the right to shout abuse at them. If you're defending this, then we should all be able to pay for tickets to schools, police HQs, hospitals, courts, shops, etc. and abuse the **** out of people who are working there. But we wouldn't, because that's punishable by law. And equally unprofessional as well as moronic. Pearson's response might have not been "professional" enough after the match, but how about criticizing the "attacker" first - in this case, Stringer. It's actio=reactio, and Stringer almost got the scandal he wanted.
buzzy Posted 3 December 2014 Posted 3 December 2014 i see the pearson fan club as woken up / even though i do not like stringer much i just wish he would smack pearson in the face and then kick the shit out of him. pearson lives n cloud cuckoo land if he thinks that was a good performance last night pearson out
KFS Posted 3 December 2014 Posted 3 December 2014 i see the pearson fan club as woken up / even though i do not like stringer much i just wish he would smack pearson in the face and then kick the shit out of him. pearson lives n cloud cuckoo land if he thinks that was a good performance last night pearson out Here we go again...
hejammy Posted 3 December 2014 Posted 3 December 2014 I really don't understand some of our fans, Ian stringer is a journalist by trade. It's his job to ask questions that are uncomfortable but people want to know the answer to. People comparing his interview style with Sven is stupid, that was a few years ago now and inevitably people change the way they work, perhaps he's become a 'better' journalist by asking the tough questions now. Of course he wants to further his career. Who here would say they wouldn't want to further their careers? I'm not a fan of Ian stringer neither am I a hater. It's his job! As far as Pearson is concerned he's in a position where unfortunately some fans will get annoyed and take their frustration out on him. It's part of the job and he has to take it on the chin. Let's ask a question - if Gerrard called everyone that sang 'Steve Gerrard Gerrard...' a c#&t or told them to f7"k off would he not be reprimanded? The interview again showed a real arrogance by Pearson, yes stick by your players however if you really believe that the commitment is the same as what it was last year or at the beginning of this season then I'm afraid he's delusional. I actually don't want Pearson to go, however he does need to change his attitude and not be so stubborn. Perhaps it is time to come back down to the bench for the full game. He only went up there because of the run we had when he was sent up to the stands. I hope we buy or loan intelligently for the here and now. Not for the future. Why did he buy powell, Simpson etc for our first premiership season in 10 years and not play them. It wasn't really the right time to build a team for the future, it was a time to buy a team to enable us to have a future in the premiership.
Babylon Posted 3 December 2014 Posted 3 December 2014 all of you that are moaning about stringer he is doing his job and if pearson just gave a straight answer to a simple question stringer wouldn't need to keep asking these questions over and over again he is only trying to get answers but instead pearson ducks and dives everything. Why does he have to tell Stringer the details of private conversations, it's none of his, yours or my business. To suggest Pearson needs to spill the beans to every infantile question from that donut is just ridiculous. Stringer is out for one thing and one thing only, a headline. As inkley points out he's in the position most of us wish we were in, to have the time to question the manager about the games, the footballing details, why he does x, y and z. But when he's always trying to work an angle about him losing his job, or the owners you a) lose precious time to ask questions the manager might actually answer and b) he builds up resentment from the manager, who clearly knows he is only after a juicy headline. Which in turns means he's going to clam up and give no details away. He's a self serving prat who acts like he speaks for the fans. He doesn't, he represents the minority, the idiots who shout abuse at Pearson in the stands and cry like a baby when they get it back. The living dead idiots who ring up the moan in barely able to string a sentence together. Sod Pearson out, I want #StringerOut. I want someone capable of asking questions that will get answers, not juicy headlines, calls to his show or hits on the bbc webpage. He's not a Sun reporter, he's a BBC employee and shouldn't be trying to work headlines all the time.
MC Prussian Posted 3 December 2014 Posted 3 December 2014 I really don't understand some of our fans, Ian stringer is a journalist by trade. It's his job to ask questions that are uncomfortable but people want to know the answer to. People comparing his interview style with Sven is stupid, that was a few years ago now and inevitably people change the way they work, perhaps he's become a 'better' journalist by asking the tough questions now. Of course he wants to further his career. Who here would say they wouldn't want to further their careers? I'm not a fan of Ian stringer neither am I a hater. It's his job! As far as Pearson is concerned he's in a position where unfortunately some fans will get annoyed and take their frustration out on him. It's part of the job and he has to take it on the chin. Let's ask a question - if Gerrard called everyone that sang 'Steve Gerrard Gerrard...' a c#&t or told them to f7"k off would he not be reprimanded? The interview again showed a real arrogance by Pearson, yes stick by your players however if you really believe that the commitment is the same as what it was last year or at the beginning of this season then I'm afraid he's delusional. I actually don't want Pearson to go, however he does need to change his attitude and not be so stubborn. Perhaps it is time to come back down to the bench for the full game. He only went up there because of the run we had when he was sent up to the stands. I hope we buy or loan intelligently for the here and now. Not for the future. Why did he buy powell, Simpson etc for our first premiership season in 10 years and not play them. It wasn't really the right time to build a team for the future, it was a time to buy a team to enable us to have a future in the premiership. Funny how many people jump to Stringer's defense, saying "but he's doing his job". No, he isn't. It's Stringer's job to be a BBC journalist, not a "Sun" reporter. It's not his job to ask the questions that he does, it's his personal agenda in order to promote himself. And how many fans really want Stringer to be that nosey? He caters to a very specific audience, people with a short fuse mostly, people who have hated the manager ever since he came to the club (a second time). The longer you stick up for people dishing out abuse in a foul way, the longer this "culture" will continue to be tolerated, leading to a boiling point sooner or later.
Bugg Posted 3 December 2014 Posted 3 December 2014 Stringer can seriously go **** himself, absolute ****. He can shove Jason Bourne's monotone butthole of a voice up his gob while he is at it too. A little off topic but Bourne was right in front of me at Southampton when the stewards ejected him for no reason. Sensational stuff
shade Posted 3 December 2014 Posted 3 December 2014 do you know what I think the ultimate problem is? strings recognises that pearson is a man of integrity, honour, strength of character and innate goodness, and sees him as everything he isn't. the pain is so overwhelmingly awful, knowing that he himself is the lowest common denominator of a human being, that his only option is to try and pull nigel down to his level. in a desperate bid to fulfil his vapid, pointless and ultimately banal life he convinces himself that this is his job; the sad reality is that his job is prostituting himself on a reality show and doing anything he can to climb the slippery corporate ladder.
ealingfox Posted 3 December 2014 Posted 3 December 2014 You are an absolute fvcking moron if you think that Stringer is 'just doing his job' and its 'what any other journalist would do'. These questions are not what all the fans want to know, any fan with half a brain doesn't give a shit about such rubbish. But then again thats part of the problem with our Club isn't it. Can you even call Stringer a journalist? Show me the last good, in-depth article he wrote on anything.
hejammy Posted 3 December 2014 Posted 3 December 2014 Funny how many people jump to Stringer's defense, saying "but he's doing his job". No, he isn't. It's Stringer's job to be a BBC journalist, not a "Sun" reporter. It's not his job to ask the questions that he does, it's his personal agenda in order to promote himself. And how many fans really want Stringer to be that nosey? He caters to a very specific audience, people with a short fuse mostly, people who have hated the manager ever since he came to the club (a second time). The longer you stick up for people dishing out abuse in a foul way, the longer this "culture" will continue to be tolerated, leading to a boiling point sooner or later. I did say that he is trying to to further his career and you can't blame him for doing that. He feels that the questions he is asking are the right questions to do that. He does work for the BBC however there are other journalists that work for the BBC in other areas that do exactly the same. All I am saying that regardless of who he works for - he's a journalist, perhaps his ambition is to report for the sun, who knows, but he is trying to further his career. We slate people for sitting on their arses for doing **** all and claiming benefit and we slate people trying to advance their career. I agree the tension he is creating could boil over however I believe it's Pearsons job to learn how to react to his 'silly' questions, if he looses it everytime he is challenged then he's not prepared for interviews. All the top managers get asked the tough questions and they learn to answer them in the correct way.
Babylon Posted 3 December 2014 Posted 3 December 2014 I really don't understand some of our fans, Ian stringer is a journalist by trade. That's like saying I'm a builder by trade if I decide to put a few bricks on top of each other. As far as I'm aware he has zero qualifications for the role and used to be a bloody salesman. Which makes sense as he comes across like a used car salesman.
hejammy Posted 3 December 2014 Posted 3 December 2014 That's like saying I'm a builder by trade if I decide to put a few bricks on top of each other. As far as I'm aware he has zero qualifications for the role and used to be a bloody salesman. Which makes sense as he comes across like a used car salesman.Yes because a bloke who gets a job with one of the biggest media corporations in the world is the same as a random person putting some bricks on top of each other....If you don't like him switch off - perhaps the BBC will sack him if his viewing figures go down
MC Prussian Posted 3 December 2014 Posted 3 December 2014 Yes because a bloke who gets a job with one of the biggest media corporations in the world is the same as a random person putting some bricks on top of each other.... That's not his point, is it? We were talking about qualifications. Stringer works for the local division of one of the biggest media corporations and clearly has his head set for Salford. We don't know how he got the job at BBC Radio Leicester, but from what I've heard, doesn't he lack the actual qualification? Can't remember that Stringer holds a degree in journalism or media studies... He used to be an "IT expert" /a salesman for a software company!
Babylon Posted 3 December 2014 Posted 3 December 2014 Yes because a bloke who gets a job with one of the biggest media corporations in the world is the same as a random person putting some bricks on top of each other.... If you don't like him switch off - perhaps the BBC will sack him if his viewing figures go down He's not a journalist, I don't give two hoots what his business card says. He's a football commentator, ex salesman, ex tv wannbe. Not a journalist, if you think he got the job because he's a good journalist you're deluded. Calling him that is an affront to actual qualified journalists out there. I don't listen to the cretin.
yorkie1999 Posted 3 December 2014 Posted 3 December 2014 What we need is a Stringer out chant . Give him the fame he craves.
Itsthejoeker Posted 3 December 2014 Posted 3 December 2014 Stringer is just a local radio sports presenter, not ****ing Paxman.
Buzzell Posted 3 December 2014 Posted 3 December 2014 I've always thought Stringer was a bit of a **** tbh.
Babylon Posted 3 December 2014 Posted 3 December 2014 I've always thought Stringer was a bit of a **** tbh. He went on the apprentice, what more do we need to know.
davieG Posted 3 December 2014 Posted 3 December 2014 If his style of questioning is to enhance his career I can't see him getting a quality journalistic role any time soon. What reputable media body would want to employ him The fact that after all the times he's interviewed him he's not managed to any decent worthwhile interesting quotes tells it all especially when you compare it to what genuine journalist have managed to get from Pearson
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