Samarkand
16 May 2007, 01:58 AM
The Irish Independent has an interesting story (registration required) about the new Sligo Rovers boss Paul Cook, a Scouser who was fired by Southport earlier this season.
So what was one of his first orders of the day? No interviews to the Irish version of *that* tabloid. Full story here (http://www.unison.ie/sportsdesk/stories.php3?ca=12&si=1829752), but pertinent paragraphs excerpted below, if you don't feel like registering.
Scouser Cook gives S*n red card as he plots Sligo revival
Wednesday May 16th 2007
FOOTBALL managers seldom take long to fall out with journalists but few make a point of refusing to speak to a newspaper before they even take the job.
New Sligo Rovers boss Paul Cook must have set some sort of record when he refused to do any interviews with The Irish S*n before it had even written about him.
The 40-year-old Scouser insists it is nothing personal against the journalists in question, but a matter of principle. As a died-in-the-wool Liverpool supporter, Cook simply can't contemplate co-operating with any arm of The S*n.
Most Liverpool fans would not even eat their chips from The S*n due to its coverage of the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989 and Cook will not be deviating from that principle.
"I've been a Liverpool fan all my life and have watched them play many times over the years," he explained. "I knew people who died at Hillsborough and the comments that newspaper made at the time of the tragedy makes it impossible for me to have anything to do with it.
"I'm not trying to be a smart-arse and it is nothing personal with the people who write for the paper in Ireland now, but in my life I'll always side with Liverpool fans." Spot on, son........
So what was one of his first orders of the day? No interviews to the Irish version of *that* tabloid. Full story here (http://www.unison.ie/sportsdesk/stories.php3?ca=12&si=1829752), but pertinent paragraphs excerpted below, if you don't feel like registering.
Scouser Cook gives S*n red card as he plots Sligo revival
Wednesday May 16th 2007
FOOTBALL managers seldom take long to fall out with journalists but few make a point of refusing to speak to a newspaper before they even take the job.
New Sligo Rovers boss Paul Cook must have set some sort of record when he refused to do any interviews with The Irish S*n before it had even written about him.
The 40-year-old Scouser insists it is nothing personal against the journalists in question, but a matter of principle. As a died-in-the-wool Liverpool supporter, Cook simply can't contemplate co-operating with any arm of The S*n.
Most Liverpool fans would not even eat their chips from The S*n due to its coverage of the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989 and Cook will not be deviating from that principle.
"I've been a Liverpool fan all my life and have watched them play many times over the years," he explained. "I knew people who died at Hillsborough and the comments that newspaper made at the time of the tragedy makes it impossible for me to have anything to do with it.
"I'm not trying to be a smart-arse and it is nothing personal with the people who write for the paper in Ireland now, but in my life I'll always side with Liverpool fans." Spot on, son........