This hack does not like PB one bit;

[jaffa1]

http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co....ing-childish/story-20105235-detail/story.html

http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co....dds-Southend/story-23177067-detail/story.html

 

[sufclee]

I read this yesterday and just thought it was a terrible and pointless piece of journalism by someone with an obvious axe to grind.

 

[Pubey]

I read this yesterday and just thought it was a terrible and pointless piece of journalism by someone with an obvious axe to grind.

The fact that he states he doesn't like PB just makes it seems weird and personal. All for criticism where due, but he's got a serious chip on his shoulder about PB.

 

[EastStandBlue]

Brown was conducting his post-match press interviews having taken up a spot on the St James’s Park turf just outside the byline.

To those in the know, it is not the best place to stand, especially as you have to step over a rope guarding the grass from would be intruders to get there.

Groundsman Clive Pring rather abruptly, but still politely, told the those standing on the pitch to leave.

However, instead of doing so, Brown argued with Pring before walking 20 feet further onto the field of play with a big grin on his face.

‘I’d love it if this guy tries to arrest me,’ joked Brown to BBC Radio Essex.

I'd never heard that anecdote before. What a way for a grown man to behave.

 

[Mick]

I'd never heard that anecdote before. What a way for a grown man to behave.

What the groundsman ? You can't begin to imagine how much damage a couple of guys standing still in shoes can do to a pitch, compared to the efforts of 25 or so booted athletes sliding around in the previous 90 mins.

 

[Pubey]

What the groundsman ? You can't begin to imagine how much damage a couple of guys standing still in shoes can do to a pitch, compared to the efforts of 25 or so booted athletes sliding around in the previous 90 mins.

Especially after a tough game and doing an interview when all you really want to do is jump in your car and head home.

Most people would move if politely asked with no fuss, but it doesn't automatically mean PB is a dick just because some guy has asked you to move from a bit of grass on the edge of the pitch for no particular reason.

 

[EastStandBlue]

What the groundsman ? You can't begin to imagine how much damage a couple of guys standing still in shoes can do to a pitch, compared to the efforts of 25 or so booted athletes sliding around in the previous 90 mins.

That's not the point though, is it? The groundsman's come and asked him and the BBC to get off the pitch. How tough is it to walk off the pitch and conduct the interview somewhere else? The boundary, the tunnel, the stand. Every ground has somewhere to conduct these interviews. Only, according to this person's report, Brown goes out of his way to defy him. It's arrogance of the most petty nature.

 

[ChrisP1982]

If that groundsman was being polite that day then I would hate to see him when he wasn't!

 

[Pubey]

If that groundsman was being polite that day then I would hate to see him when he wasn't!

LOL I wondered if the thread title might make your ears burn!


"Groundsman Clive Pring rather abruptly, but still politely, told the those standing on the pitch to leave."
Seems like PB wasn't too impressed by the tone of the groundsman.

Still should have moved, but doesn't sound like a big deal to write a newspaper article about.

 

[Seedy Nigel]

I heard the interview on BBC Essex at the time and the groundsman was very aggressive in his tone, nothing polite about the way he asked them to move at all. That's why PB was defiant, purely because of the way he and Nick Alliker were being spoken to.

 

[Blues 'n twos]

That's not the point though, is it? The groundsman's come and asked him and the BBC to get off the pitch. How tough is it to walk off the pitch and conduct the interview somewhere else? The boundary, the tunnel, the stand. Every ground has somewhere to conduct these interviews. Only, according to this person's report, Brown goes out of his way to defy him. It's arrogance of the most petty nature.

The tunnel is a busy noisy place post match and not suitable for an interview, the perimeter a possibility, but out of the whole pitch to deal with the groundsman chose that small patch where the interview was taking place... Precocious jobsworth iMO.

 

[FarmdogSUFC]

Who gives a ****.

 

[GrumpyBlue]

Who gives a ****.

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