This press conference....
'How important is...'
Every single question is phrased the same way.
These journalists would have nothing to talk about if they couldn't ask firstly about injuries, then about confidence, momentum, motivation. The three words they think cover the whole of football.
They never ask about tactics, technique, or absolutely anything technical.
It's just bizarre, because you've only got to go on youtube and you'll find a load of people talking intelligently about football, broadcasting from their bedroom.
Have these journalists ever studied the game? You'd think if you were going to be a football journalist you'd have done a bit of studying on the subject.
No wonder Jürgen is sick of the press conferences and takes the pi$$ our of the journo's so much.
Just amazing the media team at Liverpool allow it to carry on, but they're probably the same kind of media people.
It's the culture around football discourse in the UK (I come from Scotland, it's no different from England), it's so debased and is always a lot more salacious and lacking insight compared to on the continent.
I think this comes from an anti-intellectual streak in the British game, one that sneers at tactics and game development. Just think Klopp was a pundit some years back, along with Rangnick and co. In Italy, they discuss tactics deep into the night post-matches. The newspapers go into depth too with in-depth analysis, conversations of which overspill into coffee shops in Amsterdam, Milan and Munich to name just a few.
Here? We've got Danny Mills and Gabby Agbonlahor dribbling out their mouths, struggling to string a sentence together. The outrageous things they say is egged on by other dunces like Andy Goldstein and co, and it makes you think, if that is the level of football discourse in the country, then it's no wonder our managers are so tactically inept. We're not in the habit of talking about tactics and there's no eagerness there, and I can't help but think that impedes the development of young wannabe coaches; the conversations aren't being had in media or society or on the training field and, despite taking advanced coaching coaches, they are already playing catchup with their continental compatriots who are well versed in tactical discourse from an early age. As a country, we're not really provoked into thinking about tactics at an early stage.
It's why England won't be winning anything with their talented squad because the coaching, while more progressive than nightmarish idiots like Allardyce, still isn't nearly good enough. Lost count how many times Southgate has been outwitted.
