Naughty Nigel calling a reporter a pr*ck

[Vacamion]

If any of you want to see the ultimate in manager -v- journalist, Google "Jim McLean attack".

The Dundee Utd manager years ago actually jumped on and thumped the BBC interviewer.

(I'm on my phone so can't paste a link).

Nigel can still aspire to that...

[Corky]

[AKCJ]

Why not use that as the response to the question then? wouldnt that have been better than

 

"No"

 

"I said NO"

 

"IVE ANSWERED THE QUESTION. NO".

 

 

He said no?!

 

The horror!

 

Won't someone please think of the children?!?

[Foxhateram]

I dont get this.

 

The journalist was not making a personal remark that HE believed we had a team of lying cheats.

 

He was asking for Pearson's response to Steve Bruce's comments about our players surrounding the referee.

 

Thats why i dont get the over the top reaction. That question can be easily answered without an aggressive quip.

Reporter: "Steve Bruce said that your players cheated by surrounding the referee and trying to influence his decision, how do you feel about that?" (Accusing us of being cheats)

Pearson: "No were not."

Reporter: "No? Did your players not surround the ref?" (Accusing us again)

Nigel: "I said no, that's it. How many times have you seen us play this season?"

Reporter: "twice"

Nigel: "exactly, so don't comment on what we're 'like'."

(Final straw)

Reporter: "Some might say that your season is WHITTLING away, what would you say to that?"

Nigel: "whittling away my arse!" "Pr'k!"

I'm sorry but if you are not offended by the reporter then you are obviously very good at blocking out what people say, and hiding your emotion. The guy was an absolute tool. Nige, said it how it was.

[Donut]

We can sit here a post another 20 clips of managers losing their rag. Fine. What are we hoping to achieve?

 

It wont change the fact that Nige made himself, and the club look stupid yesterday, thats it as far as im concerned.

[Donut]

Reporter: "Steve Bruce said that your players cheated by surrounding the referee and trying to influence his decision, how do you feel about that?" (Accusing us of being cheats)

Pearson: "No were not."

Reporter: "No? Did your players not surround the ref?" (Accusing us again)

Nigel: "I said no, that's it. How many times have you seen us play this season?"

Reporter: "twice"

Nigel: "exactly, so don't comment on what we're 'like'."

(Final straw)

Reporter: "Some might say that your season is WHITTLING away, what would you say to that?"

Nigel: "whittling away my arse!" "Pr'k!"

I'm sorry but if you are not offended by the reporter then you are obviously very good at blocking out what people say, and hiding your emotion. The guy was an absolute tool. Nige, said it how it was.

 

So why is the anger directed at the journalist then?

 

If anything, the anger should be for Bruce. The journalist was asking for his opinion on BRUCE'S comments, not his own

[Strokes]

We can sit here a post another 20 clips of managers losing their rag. Fine. What are we hoping to achieve?

 

It wont change the fact that Nige made himself, and the club look stupid yesterday, thats it as far as im concerned.

It bothers you, it doesn't others. It's not their fault you are a bit sensitive and easily upset. It's not unique.

[inckley fox]

****ing hell Col's gone a bit quiet since all those videos popped up of other high profile managers losing their rag.

Nigel's the only one though lads!

 

Of course other managers lose their temper, who's denying that? It's the frequency with which he loses his temper (three times in, what, three or four months) and the extent to which he loses it:

 

There have been very few press conference outbursts as aggressive and inarticulate as that one by other managers this season, very few who have refused to speak to local radio, very few who have turned on their own fans to the extent of getting a ban for yelling 'f*** off and die' at a section of the stand, very few who have picked a row with a club legend, very few who have manhandled an opposition player. To have done all of the above is extraordinary and, yes, fans of other clubs and even in other countries have recognised his behaviour is erratic.

 

Above all else, Wenger, Redknapp, Guardiola, Ferguson and Mourinho have all demonstrated that they can cope with the pressures of this division by their past success at this level. Pearson, on the other hand, has not demonstrated this, and when further evidence surfaces of him struggling to compose himself, it adds to the picture of a man who can't cope rather than, in the case of the other examples, detracting from the picture of a man who can.

 

The arguments in his behaviour all seem to focus on defending the indefensible; arguing that we're not performing below expectations, that we shouldn't expect much better, that his behaviour has been that of a man who is dealing well with pressure, that his squad is still young and hungry.

 

There are other arguments to explore, valid reasons to want him to stay. But to refuse to acknowledge that he is showing quite understandable signs of struggling to deal with the demands of managing at this level - like many other decent managers before him - and that this is apparent in his demeanour, his media handling, his public spats, his management of the squad and above all his results, is way too big a stretch.

 

There really are only a select minority of Leicester fans, in the face of what's obvious to the whole PL-following world (in Spain the Press refer to him as 'el estrangulador', by the way), who can't see that his behaviour over recent months has been unusual for a manager at this level, and that it is connected to the personal strain he's under. That doesn't mean you should care about the journalist's feelings, or whether we're a bit of a laughing stock at times, or think yesterday's outburst was worthy of condemnation, or even that he should be fired (be it for his state of mind or his poor results), it's just an observation which we'd all quite happily make were the boot to be on the other foot.

[theessexfox]

We can sit here a post another 20 clips of managers losing their rag. Fine. What are we hoping to achieve?

 

 

People criticising Pearson in this incident claimed that no other managers do it, so surely it's only right for them to be proven wrong? 

[Donut]

Of course other managers lose their temper, who's denying that? It's the frequency with which he loses his temper (three times in, what, three or four months) and the extent to which he loses it:

 

There have been very few press conference outbursts as aggressive and inarticulate as that one by other managers this season, very few who have refused to speak to local radio, very few who have turned on their own fans to the extent of getting a ban for yelling 'f*** off and die' at a section of the stand, very few who have picked a row with a club legend, very few who have manhandled an opposition player. To have done all of the above is extraordinary and, yes, fans of other clubs and even in other countries have recognised his behaviour is erratic.

 

Above all else, Wenger, Redknapp, Guardiola, Ferguson and Mourinho have all demonstrated that they can cope with the pressures of this decision by being their past success at this level. Pearson, on the other hand, has not demonstrated this, and when further evidence surfaces of him struggling to compose himself, it adds to the picture of a man who can't cope rather than, in the case of the other examples, detracting from the picture of a man who can.

 

The arguments in his behaviour all seem to focus on defending the indefensible; arguing that we're not performing below expectations, that we shouldn't expect much better, that his behaviour has been that of a man who is dealing well with pressure, that his squad is still young and hungry.

 

There are other arguments to explore, valid reasons to want him to stay. But to refuse to acknowledge that he is showing quite understandable signs of struggling to deal with the demands of managing at this level - like many other decent managers before him - and that this is apparent in his demeanour, his media handling, his public spats, his management of the squad and above all his results, is way too big a stretch.

 

There really are only a select minority of Leicester fans, in the face of what's obvious to the whole PL-following world (in Spain the Press refer to him as 'el estrangulador', by the way), who can't see that his behaviour over recent months has been unusual for a manager at this level, and that it is connected to the personal strain he's under. That doesn't mean you should care about the journalist's feelings, or whether we're a bit of a laughing stock at times, or think yesterday's outburst was worthy of condemnation, or even that he should be fired (be it for his state of mind or his poor results), it's just an observation which we'd all quite happily make were the boot to be on the other foot.

 

At last. some sense.

[Donut]

People criticising Pearson in this incident claimed that no other managers do it, so surely it's only right for them to be proven wrong? 

 

As i have posted above. I am not interested in a "two wrongs make a right" argument.

 

I have criticised Pearsons conduct in the press conference and that I didnt believe it fitting of a man in his position.

 

These video clips are all very nice, but yesterday our manager was recorded calling a journalist a p.rick. And that to me is not acceptable.

 

And ESPECIALLY not when he has form already this season.

[Foxhateram]

So why is the anger directed at the journalist then?

If anything, the anger should be for Bruce. The journalist was asking for his opinion on BRUCE'S comments, not his own

Because he keeps digging. Pearson gave a short quick answer of No I don't think Bruce is right. Then the bloke continues to ask the same question twice more before then saying that our season was WHITTLING away (reporters words) that in itself is a pretty offensive thing to say to someone, it's even more bloody annoying after a game that didn't go the way you would of wanted it to.

I swear some people are purposely being objective now, just so they can add to their Pearson out argument. The reporter was a knob and got what he deserved. End of.

[Donut]

Because he keeps digging. Pearson gave a short quick answer of No I don't think Bruce is right. Then the bloke continues to ask the same question twice more before then saying that our season was WHITTLING away (reporters words) that in itself is a pretty offensive thing to say to someone, it's even more bloody annoying after a game that didn't go the way you would of wanted it to.

I swear some people are purposely being objective now, just so they can add to their Pearson out argument. The reporter was a knob and got what he deserved. End of.

 

So he cant handle an awkward question then? or in all the press conferences between now and the end of the season, we should brace ourselves for an outburst if Nige doesnt like the question?

[AKCJ]

So he cant handle an awkward question then? or in all the press conferences between now and the end of the season, we should brace ourselves for an outburst if Nige doesnt like the question?

 

 

I'm beginning to think you're not serious and are on the troll.

 

He gave a straight "no" to the question. Why are you getting offended by it? Get a ****ing grip. You're embarrassing us.

[Donut]

I'm beginning to think you're not serious and are on the troll.

 

He gave a straight "no" to the question. Why are you getting offended by it? Get a ****ing grip. You're embarrassing us.

 

He couldnt handle the awkward questions because he then insulted the journalist.

 

Embarrasing Pearsonite culture is borderline trolling.

[shailen]

Hypocrisy is what it is if it's okay for Fergie et al to behave in such a manner just because he has the medals. Surely the same rules apply to all managers regarding of their status. It's then peoples perception of whether one individual deserves more criticism than another. Clearly Pearson is unwanted by a large portion of the fanbase and anything he does will react negativety. Last year we would have laughed it off. This is the reality. 

[Donut]

Hypocrisy is what it is if it's okay for Fergie et al to behave in such a manner just because he has the medals. Surely the same rules apply to all managers regarding of their status. It's then peoples perception of whether one individual deserves more criticism than another. Clearly Pearson is unwanted by a large portion of the fanbase and anything he does will react negativety. Last year we would have laughed it off. This is the reality. 

 

I didnt talk about status, i didnt talk about medals. Insulting a journalist is insulting a journalist, medals or not.

 

I said his outburst in the press conference put himself and the club in a bad light. Bad publicity.

 

My opinion is not going to change on the issue im afraid.

[inckley fox]

It bothers you, it doesn't others. It's not their fault you are a bit sensitive and easily upset. It's not unique.

 

Personally I'm not in the slightest bit offended by one man calling another man a '****'. I'm not too keen on the fact that I'm back in the school in Spain next week and the kids and staff have a habit of taunting me about what a nutcase our manager is, or that this is the only thing they seem to know about our club. But no, I'm happy to live with that, even if the results are harder to put up with sometimes.

 

What's more worrying is what it tells us about how well he can cope with the pressures of managing at this level. He's often acknowledged the importance of a manager keeping a calm head, but these incidents - and we're talking plural, of course - don't suggest that he can do that. Coupled with our awful results, which wasn't a problem for most of the other managers mentioned in this thread, it doesn't seem to create the impression of a man who is fit to manage at this level.

 

From what I can see, this is what people are worried about, rather than being personally shattered by the public use of a naughty word. Now if Pearson had the track record of Ferguson, Wenger et. al then an outburst or two would just be a case of a good manager looking a bit daft. But he doesn't.

 

I saw in the papers today that some young actor had been found pissing in the street, drunk. Does that make him an alcoholic knocking on death's door? No, probably not. But if you saw Gazza doing the same thing you'd worry for him, wouldn't you? The same logic applies to Pearson's behaviour yesterday. Much of what he's done this season, from his public spats to his key decisions to the results they've earned him, have suggested that he can't cope. While his words yesterday are no reason, in isolation, to kick up a fuss, it's still perfectly understandable that some may draw a connection between those words and the aforementioned failure to cope.

[Foxhateram]

Of course other managers lose their temper, who's denying that? It's the frequency with which he loses his temper (three times in, what, three or four months) and the extent to which he loses it:

There have been very few press conference outbursts as aggressive and inarticulate as that one by other managers this season, very few who have refused to speak to local radio, very few who have turned on their own fans to the extent of getting a ban for yelling 'f*** off and die' at a section of the stand, very few who have picked a row with a club legend, very few who have manhandled an opposition player. To have done all of the above is extraordinary and, yes, fans of other clubs and even in other countries have recognised his behaviour is erratic.

Above all else, Wenger, Redknapp, Guardiola, Ferguson and Mourinho have all demonstrated that they can cope with the pressures of this division by their past success at this level. Pearson, on the other hand, has not demonstrated this, and when further evidence surfaces of him struggling to compose himself, it adds to the picture of a man who can't cope rather than, in the case of the other examples, detracting from the picture of a man who can.

The arguments in his behaviour all seem to focus on defending the indefensible; arguing that we're not performing below expectations, that we shouldn't expect much better, that his behaviour has been that of a man who is dealing well with pressure, that his squad is still young and hungry.

There are other arguments to explore, valid reasons to want him to stay. But to refuse to acknowledge that he is showing quite understandable signs of struggling to deal with the demands of managing at this level - like many other decent managers before him - and that this is apparent in his demeanour, his media handling, his public spats, his management of the squad and above all his results, is way too big a stretch.

There really are only a select minority of Leicester fans, in the face of what's obvious to the whole PL-following world (in Spain the Press refer to him as 'el estrangulador', by the way), who can't see that his behaviour over recent months has been unusual for a manager at this level, and that it is connected to the personal strain he's under. That doesn't mean you should care about the journalist's feelings, or whether we're a bit of a laughing stock at times, or think yesterday's outburst was worthy of condemnation, or even that he should be fired (be it for his state of mind or his poor results), it's just an observation which we'd all quite happily make were the boot to be on the other foot.

So what your saying is that it is ok to swear at journalists if your successful already. But your not allowed to swear at a fricking tw't of a journo if you haven't won the premier league?

Furthermore, your comments regarding him being someone who can't handle the pressure is silly. He says it how it is. The guy has always done that, I have known him since his set up with the England under 21's he has always told people what he thinks. He looks after his own, here he is defending his players after being accused of cheating.

At the risk of waiting my breath as I'm sure you won't listen, I am going to refer to the other incidents. Abuse was hurled at Pearson for the first FOAD incident, the sort of abuse to do with his family that anyone would react to, it was also someone he knew.(Long term spat between them). Linekar admitted his comments were out of place. The McArthur incident- even the player said it was a friendly joke between them (Mcarthur knows Pearson personally). And finally Stringer is a grade A Cnut that digs for a reaction, while he is journo then The Club have made a unanimous decision to not speak to RL.

Get over yourselves and support the team. Enjoy the rest of the season and climb down from your high horse.

[inckley fox]

People criticising Pearson in this incident claimed that no other managers do it, so surely it's only right for them to be proven wrong? 

 

Did anybody at any point say that? I must have missed it.

 

It's the fact that these outbursts often go further than those of many other managers and happen a lot more often, which is riling people. And the fact that these other examples were cases of proven managers making themselves look silly, as opposed to an unproven and failing manager making himself look even sillier.

[Benguin]

Was a big Pearson fan, started to hate him at Villa Fa cup, fuming after yesterday, just watched this and now I love him again! Might as well have some fun now were down.

[inckley fox]

So what your saying is that it is ok to swear at journalists if your successful already. But your not allowed to swear at a fricking tw't officials a journo if you haven't win the premier league?

Furthermore, your comments regarding him being someone who can't handle the pressure is silly. He says it how it is. The guy has always done that, I have known him since his set up with the England under 21's he has always told people what he thinks. He looks after his own, here he is defending his players after being accused of cheating.

At the risk of waiting my breath as I'm sure you won't listen, I am going to refer to the other incidents. Abuse was hurled at Pearson for the first FOAD incident, the sort of abuse to do with his family that anyone would react to, it was also someone he knew.(Long term spat between them). Linekar admitted his comments were out of place. The McArthur incident- even the player said it was a friendly joke between them (Mcarthur knows Pearson personally). And finally Stringer is a grade A Cnut that digs for a reaction, while he is journo then The Club have made a unanimous decision to not speak to RL.

Get over yourselves and support the team. Enjoy the rest of the season and climb down from your high horse.

 

Okay, so it's the rest of the world which is to blame, but definitely not the common denominator.

 

No, I'm saying it's not okay to lose control when you're in a job where you're required to be in control. But Mourinho looking a bit silly, with his track record at this level, and Pearson looking a bit silly, with his track record at this level, are very different things. One manager is clearly right to be working at the top of the game, and his behaviour is a minor smear on that immense reputation. The other appears not to be capable of working at this level, and his behaviour is a further indication of that.

 

Some managers 'blow their tops' articulately and calculatedly, for impact, but we can't seriously claim that these comments come into this category This is a man struggling to cope with the pressure. I just happen to think that if we're ever to take a side up to this league and keep it there, we're going to need a manager who can cope a lot, lot better.

 

It's what the incident tells us about his ability to do his job, and in the light of him being on track to become one of the biggest failures ever at this level, which is important. And to compare him, in this regard, with a series of the most successful ever managers at this level is just a little absurd.

[shailen]

I didnt talk about status, i didnt talk about medals. Insulting a journalist is insulting a journalist, medals or not.

 

I said his outburst in the press conference put himself and the club in a bad light. Bad publicity.

 

My opinion is not going to change on the issue im afraid.

 

Fair enough. Although it's nothing too serious, it's a talking point and that is bad publicity. Hate the way the media make situations. Clearly the reporter was looking for something from Pearson and although he handled the interview well, he shouldn't have reacted after as he did.

[Fox92]

He couldnt handle the awkward questions because he then insulted the journalist.

 

Embarrasing Pearsonite culture is borderline trolling.

 

 

"Pearsonite". Who comes up with this rubbish. 

[Foxhateram]

Okay, so it's the rest of the world which is to blame, but definitely not the common denominator.

 

No, I'm saying it's not okay to lose control when you're in a job where you're required to be in control. But Mourinho looking a bit silly, with his track record at this level, and Pearson looking a bit silly, with his track record at this level, are very different things. One manager is clearly right to be working at the top of the game, and his behaviour is a minor smear on that immense reputation. The other appears not to be capable of working at this level, and his behaviour is a further indication of that.

 

Some managers 'blow their tops' articulately and calculatedly, for impact, but we can't seriously claim that these comments come into this category This is a man struggling to cope with the pressure. I just happen to think that if we're ever to take a side up to this league and keep it there, we're going to need a manager who can cope a lot, lot better.

 

It's what the incident tells us about his ability to do his job, and in the light of him being on track to become one of the biggest failures ever at this level, which is important. And to compare him, in this regard, with a series of the most successful ever managers at this level is just a little absurd.

I still cannot see how telling someone who is clearly trolling to feck off, has any link what so ever to him not doing his job properly. Infact I can't see anything to suggest that Nige isn't doing his job properly. He got us promoted for the first time in ten years smashing club records in the process, he has kept us FFP compliant alongside the promotion. He has given us a great youth set up, brilliant sports science facilities and developed a young hungry side.

This season we have struggled to step up admittedly, but many teams have come up and gone straight back down to come back stronger, aka west brom. I am not expecting too little, I'm being realistic. We have never been outclassed, not once this season, and been really unfortunate in many games. More to the point we are not down yet. People are radiculously negative and over hyping every little detail. It isn't helping the players at all.

Anyway I am wasting my breath. Plus typing on an Ipad is giving me RSI. You will im sure be happy to know that the Club still have great confidence in nige and the team, and Nige himself isn't going to be sent to the White coats anytime soon. You will also be glad to know that Nige is trying his best to keep the players out of the limelight, and the mood in the camp is still positive.

Shame it's not positive in the stands.