I'm just watching the Pep Guardiola pre-match conference and most of the questions have been about other teams, managers and players. Just the odd question about the actual game and City team. One reporter even asked him about his time at Barcelona. Why do we these so-called professional journos ask such dumb and pointless questions? It's getting to the stage where a lot of these pressers don't actually achieve anything. No wonder managers look disinterested half the time.
Pre-Match Press Conferences - What's the point?
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Jokes aside... mind games?
since it's usually boring, I think managers should just ignore their qs and use the conference to say whatever they want.
Jokes aside... mind games?
since it's usually boring, I think managers should just ignore their qs and use the conference to say whatever they want.
All seems a bit dated and stupid in the modern era. Doesn't help when the majority of the questions are awful and achieve very little, most the answers could be given in a press release the day before a game.
Although its exciting for the body language experts.
Although its exciting for the body language experts.
Something for the media to do. Most of the time they're pulling things out of thin air, making stuff up. At least for a few days they can actually report on something.
They are pointless in the grand scheme of things. Journalists are not bothered with asking anything at a tactical level, that's boring. They want something they can create a story out of instead.
Tradition.
No need for it in the modern game.
No need for it in the modern game.
Time for fan channels to step in and get a chair.
In England, the press usually only get to interview club staff before and after games, they dont get to visit training ground etc. This is why you get these "generic" questions. It then gets embargoed and news spread around the following weeks/days so the papers have content for every day of the week.