Comments on: VIDEO: Fergie Has A Go At Journos – “You Humiliate People”

By: Giggs11

Giggs11 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:05:24 +0000

New link to the video:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xaz942_sir-alex-ferguson-says-journalists_news

By: truereddevil

truereddevil — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:29:56 +0000

the link not working

By: kennylad

kennylad — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:09:31 +0000

I wouldn’t trust or wipe my backside on any of today’s papers, they all have their own agenda, they influence people far too much and too many people don’t question what they write, which is mostly crap.

It’s not confined to football, it’s politics and other subjects. I think we’d all benefit more if people stopped buying their crap. I can’t stand the likes of the Sun, Mirror etc… they are in the business of hype and I’m glad fergie is telling them the cold hard facts.

By: King Eric

King Eric — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:00:19 +0000

Go on Fergie you tell the cunts. He is rightly sick of the shit they have been writing this last few weeks. Just yesterday there were two stories about him speaking out about the Ingerlund friendly coming up. Two respected papers used the terms “fergie goes NUTS” and “Fergie BLASTS the FA” about what he said about the friendlies. When you read the article it is clear he didn’t go NUTS at all.

By: Giles Oakley

Giles Oakley — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:06:36 +0000

We’ve all been debating Rio’s form and fitness for weeks, the player himself has admitted he needs 10 games , so I think Fergie was wrong to be all arsey like that. The questions were legit, and he could have deflected them another way if he’s trying to protect Rio, who’s anyway a big boy by now. Yes the media these days are into humiliating people and he’s right about that, but no-one with any knowledge of Fergie’s career could say he’s never humiliated anyone. It seems every day there’s some new headline sparked by comments made by Fergie, and I don’t see how any of them are helping United right now. I don’t see any evidence of any proverbial seige mentality being built up, ‘us-against-them’, in any of these utterances. One can’t even say they take the pressure off the players after the bad result at Anfield (or several poor performances in Rio’s case) because the immediate assumption everyone is making is that Fergie & United are ‘feeling the pressure’. Unfortunately this is a reversion to his dip in managerial form c. 2003-06. At his best he’s the master of playing the medoia game, but not here.

Sorry to go slightly off topic, but there’s one other small point, in someone’s list of providers of good journalism, the New York Times was mentioned. A bit laughable if you take into account their coverage of Iraq and especially the build up to war.

By: slim

slim — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:41:07 +0000

What will happen when the number one manager finally retires ?
i dont want to think about it, the media will miss having him there, especially the english media. because he is one off. No-one will repeat the kind of success he has. Othe teams will win titles .no doubt. But will be nothing like the 20+ years Fergie has been here

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:32:52 +0000

Simmo.

Journalists don’t think their opinions are higher than anyone else. Quite the opposite – they care about the opinions of people like Sir Alex.

As an aside, I found it quite hilarious when Fergie was talking about picking his teams (’You’ll never pick my teams you can try as long as you like’)

I do Premier League team news for the Independent – the best I have got to getting near the starting United XI is 9!!

And that was on a good day!!

By: OMelhorDoMundo

OMelhorDoMundo — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:29:05 +0000

It’s true that most of the football journalism in England is very shoddily written and irresponsibly reported. There’s a rule in journalism that a journalist never reports another journalist’s work but in football, so often you see even the respectable papers like the Guardian taking unconfirmed–then later denied–quotes from other papers. It’s irresponsible. The headline writing for the Daily Mail is so shamelessly and irresponsibly biased as well. The red-top papers don’t hire writers, they hire hacks who probably never studied journalism and so don’t know the fundamentals of ethical reporting.
Great journalism exists (NY Times, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, the Times, BBC) but in football, where access to sources is difficult, where there is such fierce competition to break the news first, where there is little real controversy, fact-checking doesn’t exist anymore. It’s unfortunate because that appears to be the only way to sell papers.

By: ldyinred

ldyinred — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:53:43 +0000

That man is my hero.

By: Norton

Norton — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:43:47 +0000

Of course Ferguson’s right on this – Bobby Robson’s treatment by such as McKenzie is only one example and that was in the late 1980s through to the World Cup of 1990.
Journos these days are worse, including the sports ones he confronts on this clip. Hiding behind the “people’s right to know” they think they can ask a direct question, be given a direct answer and then interpret it in any way they please.
And I hope the intent here is to close ranks. As another poster points out we like nothing better than our own unique siege mentality.