Quote Originally Posted by Tuerto View Post
People are saying that Morison wasn't going down the stereotypical football manager route with his reply. I would disagree. A bit harsh to call his reply stereotypical, but i would say that he acted in a way that most managers would if they were presented with the same question. What i didn't like was him accusing the journalist of being negative, that's such a conversation stopper, it's an accusation that changes the conversation and it put the journalist in a defensive position, like he had done something wrong, and he hadn't.

Maybe Morison should explain himself better before getting so defensive. He made a great point about a striker getting in good positions, but ****ed it up when he got irate, and it wasn't a good irate either, it was like he was arguing with his teenage daughter about her being ungrateful and spoiling a family day out.

Nothing wrong with him backing his players, but he has to realise that he will face questions he doesn't particularly like, and as a manager, he has to articulate himself in a better way.
Great description

I suppose it's a big improvement from "a.n.other played like twat and well f*cked it up for me" so he's going down the right route and I do wonder whether there's any place in the modern game for 'honesty' anymore and that stereotypical replies are what we should expect. It's happened in other top sports like F1. They're surrounded by PR advisers and have a 'company line'.

I do think that sometimes people confuse 'honesty' with being unprepared/professional. I'm of the Arsene Wenger school of post match interviews. Defend the players, defend the team, give very little away and deal with it behind closed doors. Let's face it, there's very little space for anything original in football-speak anymore. It's genuinely hard not to describe the game in cliches. That's why I think your description is so good.