Get the press on your side…
… is something which seems not to concern Joe Kinnear, the ‘temporary’ manager of English Premier League team, Newcastle United.
In the days where football managers in the Premier League, by and large, are: a) Not British; b) Can string a sentence together in English, unlike most British managers; and c) Have view of the the world beyond ‘hoof the ball in the air to the big guy up front in the number 9 shirt’, it’s refreshing to have someone like Kinnear, out of football for about four years, who thinks nothing of calling the football correspondent of a British national newspaper ‘a cunt’ in his first press conference. Nice. Classy…
For the full unexpurgated rant click here
And, to paraphrase what they say on the news when they announce the results before Match of the Day: ‘If you’re offended by bad language, look away now…’
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3. October 2008 - 12:25 Uhr
Way to go Joe. Make the most of your 6 weeks in the spotlight before you drop back into obscurity. Hughly amusing, I thought, that you have a 2 match touchline ban carried over from you last job with Nottingham Forest - 4 (yes FOUR) years ago - which means you may not actually watch Newcastle from the bench before you are replaced by somebody with a clue… Priceless. Mike Ashley is so inept he would fail to get wet in a swimming pool.
3. October 2008 - 15:01 Uhr
Funny,funny,funny they have to be going for NUFC the musical right? Andrew Lloyd Weber is next up for sure. As a fan it’s a joke. But quite admire the rhetoric and are looking forward to a good round of puns in the morning.