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VIDEO: Fergie Has A Go At Journos - "You Humiliate People"

October 30, 2009

Scott is the editor of RoM and has a season ticket at Old Trafford. He writes for The Mirror and Red News. He started The Republik of Mancunia in March 2006. Follow @R_o_M on Twitter.

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24 Comments

Neejil October 30, 2009

Well said Sir Alex. Getting the siege mentality back that's served us so well in the past

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Fze123 October 30, 2009

You tell 'em gaffer. Journos are the most idiotic biased shitheads in the world, some players claim that they don't give a toss about what's written about them in the papers, but trust me, they care a great deal.

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Costas October 30, 2009

Amen!Bless his mouth!

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Jessie October 30, 2009

Who were they talking about?

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kel October 30, 2009

Finally i know why the manager hate the press conference. Those journalist know nothing about football and talk nonsense and like to go on the bandwagon if there is some.

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Gotta hate tiny tears October 30, 2009

I have to say Tomorrows papers will be about how bonkers fergie has finaly lost it. pressure got to him ....... he's crackin up???.... this must be his last season.bollox....bollox.....more bollox
I find it amazing how the english media(thats not a shot at england. the irish media just copy what the emglish wrote and stick boyzone of the wins from xfactor in somewhere) can write what ever they like and get away with it and just because everyone knows about it and jokes about it and blames shit on it noone ever just says it to them face to face except a handful and sir alex must be top of the list, but will they take on his words?? no. they'll just slate Sir Alex tomorrow.

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Simmo October 30, 2009

well done Fergie!!
Football journalists are the lowest of the low. Pricks who think that their opinion matters more than the average fan. It doesn't!!!!!

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theboogeyman October 30, 2009

Spot on,Gaffer!
I'm tired of the cunts having a go at him every bloody day.

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footballholic October 30, 2009

well thats how things are.. why do journalist have to make everything sounds controversial

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Mannion October 30, 2009

Jessie Said,
October 30th, 2009 @15:47

Who were they talking about?

Rio i presume?

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Briggsy October 30, 2009

Jessie: Think they were taking about Rio and his form. It came out the other day about Fergie dropping him but if you read the actual report, he says nothing of the kind.

Love the bit when they are talking about Rio needing 10 games to get his sharpness back and Fergie says "so why would I drop him"

journalism now-a-days has got much worse since 24 hour news shows. No matter what they do they will always be reporting old stories. So they have to blow up every little thing just to sell papers.

Against Liverpool, every player had an off day. But because Torres scored (his only shot of the game) whilst up against Rio, it's because Rio's not the same player. Regardless of the fact Rio and Vidic pretty kept them at bay for most of the game.

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20LEgend October 30, 2009

Jessie - He was talking about Rio

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Fze123 October 30, 2009

Football journos will be a bunch of unhappy offended bunnies tomorow. And the slating shall begin...

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Fze123 October 30, 2009

"I don't get a great reception at Anfield I must say - I'm not their favourite son." G.neville.

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Norton October 30, 2009

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.

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ldyinred October 30, 2009

That man is my hero.

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OMelhorDoMundo October 30, 2009

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.

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Alex October 30, 2009

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!!

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slim October 30, 2009

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

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Giles Oakley October 30, 2009

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.

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King Eric October 30, 2009

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.

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kennylad October 30, 2009

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.