A soccer press conference is much better than the game

I could write something inane about this exchange but I'll let the Daily Mirror take the credit. It's the first press conference for Newcastle manager Joe Kinnear and here's how it starts off:


Joe Kinnear: Which one is Simon Bird(Daily Mirror's north-east football writer)?
Simon Bird: Me.
JK: You're a cunt.
SB: Thank you.

How great would it be to see Belichick say something like that to. . . anyone really, talk about a YouTube hit.
But that's not all:


JK: You are trying to fucking undermine my position already.
SB: Have you read it, it doesn't say that. I knew you knew they were having a day off.
JK: Fuck off. Fuck off. It's your last fucking chance.
SB: You read the copy? It doesn't say that you didn't know.
JK: What about the headline, you think that's a good headline?
SB: I didn't write the headline, you read the copy.
JK: You are negative bastards, the pair of you.


Still more:


JK: I have done it before. It is going to my fucking lawyers. So are about three others. If they can find something in it that is a court case it is going to court. I am not fucking about. I don't talk to fucking anybody. It is raking up stories. You are fucking so fucking slimy you are raking up players that I got rid of. Players that I had fallen out with. You are not asking Robbie Earle, because he is sensible. You are not asking Warren Barton? No. Because he is fucking sensible. Anyone who had played for me for 10 years at any level ... [but] you will find some cunt that ...
Other journalist: How long is your contract for Joe?
JK: None of your business

And wraps up with this:

Steve Brenner (football writer for the Sun): We are all grown men and can come in here and sit around and talk about football, but coming in here and calling people cunts?
JK: Why? Because I am annoyed. I am not accepting that. If it is libellous, it is going to where I want it to go.
Newcastle press officer: What has been said in here is off the record and doesn't go outside.

(Not bloody likely ole chap)

From the Daily Mirror:

"Joe Kinnear blew his top yesterday as the pressure of managing Newcastle took its toll – just FOUR days into his reign.
The interim boss launched a furious foul-mouthed tirade using 52 swear words in an amazing five-minute blast because he is angry at the flak he believes has been fired in his direction this week.
The former Wimbledon manager held his first press conference at Newcastle’s Benton training ground – and claimed it would be his last.

He immediately slapped a ban on all media, branding reporters “f****** so f****** slimy”.

Kinnear also labelled ex-players who have questioned his return to the game as “*****”, as he got increasingly irate.

The 61-year-old had an angry exchange with Mirror Sport after we revealed on Tuesday that he gave his first team the day off on his first day in charge.

When told it was a valid issue to raise, Kinnear responded: “It is none of your f****** business. What the f*** are you going to do? You ain’t got the balls to be a f******* manager. F******* day off. Do I want your opinion? Do I have to listen to you?”

Kinnear claimed he’s been “ridiculed” for no reason, although he admitted last week fans would be disappointed by his arrival, and that
he only got the job because everyone else turned it down.

He is also serving a two-match touchline ban dating back four years which Newcastle knew nothing about when they appointed him. And he claimed Alan Shearer was waiting to take his job long term, a claim Shearer said was “news to me”.

And he admitted to club owner Mike Ashley his reception had been “not the best”.