Gary Megson is kissing the wrong backsides
Friday October 16th, 2009
A young Gary Megson prepares for later life with foot in mouth, pic from Qole Pejorian
A young Gary Megson prepares for later life with foot in mouth, pic from Qole Pejorian
The Bolton Wanderers manager should concentrate on brown-nosing fans, not Alex Ferguson
If there’s a Gary Megson interview taking place in the national media these days, you can guarantee that one of the questions on the journalists’ list will be something along the lines of: “So Gary, how does it feel to be hated by your own fans?”
I’ve said before, and shall say again, that I think Megson’s standing amongst Wanderers fans would be much better than it is if he’d answered that question from the very outset with something along the lines of: “I understand that the fans are keen for success – there’d be something wrong with them if they’d didn’t want to see their team do well. All we can do is continue to work hard and I hope that eventually we’ll win them over. It would be great to have them behind us but I understand that I need to earn that.”
A little shameless brown-nosing never hurt anyone.
Instead, he’s continually stoked the fires of discontent by calling us pathetic and generally showing little care with our feelings (yes, football fans are sensitive souls, they pay a lot of money for that privilege).
It’s pretty obvious from all this that Megson is really bad at PR, but I’ve often wondered if there’s more to it than that, if there’s something in his no-nonsense approach that makes him incapable of swallowing his pride in front of the cameras and mircophones and kissing a little backside.
But this week came a reminder that Megson is more than happy to get his nose nice and brown when it comes to his fellow managers. Last season Rafa Benitez got gushing praise, this year it’s the turn of Alex Ferguson: Megson defends Fergie over Wiley criticism.
I’m pretty sure I heard Megson on Five Live the other week saying he doesn’t read the criticism in the papers. How come he found time to study the various ins and outs of who said what in the case of Ferguson versus Wiley then?
His priorities are totally wrong in my view. In the week before a game with our local rivals, he should be galvanazing supporters, not the opposition manager. He’s getting his nose brown in the wrong places.
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