Fergie forced to sign up for Match of the Day interviews
Six year post-match boycott comes to an end…
Expect Gary Lineker’s opening lines on next season’s Match of the Day to be even more smug and annoying than usual. New Premier League rules, to be enforced next year, mean all managers will have to give post-match interviews to broadcasting rights holders – meaning Sir Alex Ferguson will have to explain his latest outburst to the cameras himself, rather than sending right-hand man Mike Phelan.
Ferguson promised never to do another interview with the BBC after it broadcast a documentary alleging his football agent son Jason used the family name to gain influence in transfer dealings, in 2004.
Spurs boss Harry Redknapp and Blackburn’s Sam Allardyce have also had previous run-ins with the Beeb over corruption allegations, but all will have to give TV or radio interviews or face ‘a sliding scale of punishments’.
Further acquiescing to power of broadcasting coin, these new Prem guidelines will also allow TV stations to interview players on the pitch directly after a game, US-sports style.
So, if 20-30 “umm”s, “y’know”s and “at the end of the day”s per sentence wasn’t enough (in an answer to a question they’ve already been asked off-air, 10 seconds earlier), we can now get the the lucid insight of a footballer’s opinion straight after they’ve played 90 minutes of football – complete with opposition shirt worn inside-out, water bottle in mouth and gratuitous spitting.
The magic of the Premier League.
8 responses so far
Duncan // November 16, 2009 at 2:29 pm
As if Fergie will submit to this kind of request. You can’t be forced to talk.
Luke Cairns // November 16, 2009 at 3:50 pm
great idea… all good..
hoping Fergie dont retire now, just to see his barely controlled disdain when he has to speak.
Lindy // November 16, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Hope all 3 stonewall the bloodsucking Beeb.
Nicko // November 17, 2009 at 9:34 am
Fergie should grew a set instead of acting like a spoilt child.
If he thinks the Beeb are out of order, not talking to them is akin to a kid throwing a tantrum.
When will this pompus ass get some perspective and realise that no-one except the loyal collective of Basingstoke based manure lovers give a rat’s ass about what he says/does.
SPOT // November 17, 2009 at 10:10 am
How can you force somebody to speak.
I hope he’ll come along with a prepared monologue on how great Nani is… he he.
Ashfield // November 17, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Are you a Cockney by any chance as well as a bellend Nicko?
Nicko // November 18, 2009 at 12:00 am
Nope, I live in spain. I take it you’re from basingstoke?
Raging // November 18, 2009 at 1:14 am
Nicko, I’m no Manure fan but if you ask me if I”m interested in what the greatest manager of our time has to say……….then of course I bloody well am. Particularly when some ref has wound him up!! It’s hilarious.
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