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JK Which one is Simon Bird [Daily Mirror's north-east football writer]?

SB Me.

JK You're a ****.

SB Thank you.

JK Which one is Hickman [Niall, football writer for the Express]? You are out of order. Absolutely f***ing out of order. If you do it again, I am telling you you can f*** off and go to another ground. I will not come and stand for that f***ing crap. No f***ing way, lies. f***, you're saying I turned up and they [Newcastle's players] f***ed off.


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SB No Joe, have you read it, it doesn't actually say that. Have you read it?

JK I've f***ing read it, I've read it.

SB It doesn't say that. Have you read it?

JK You are trying to f***ing undermine my position already.

SB Have you read it, it doesn't say that. I knew you knew they were having a day off.

JK f*** off. f*** off. It's your last f***ing chance.

SB You read the copy? It doesn't say that you didn't know.

JK What about the headline, you think that's a good headline?

SB I didn't write the headline, you read the copy.

JK You are negative bastards, the pair of you.

SB So if I get a new job next week would I take the first day off? No I wouldn't. If I get a new job should I call my boss and tell him I am taking the first day off?

JK It is none of your f***ing business. What the f*** are you going to do? You ain't got the balls to be a f***ing manager. f***ing day off. Do I want your opinion. Do I have to listen to you?

SB No, you can listen to who you want.

JK I had a 24-hour meeting with the entire staff.

SB Joe, you are only here six weeks, you could have done that on Sunday, or Saturday night.

JK No, no, no. I didn't want to do it. I had some other things to do.

SB What? More important things?

JK What are you? My personal secretary? f*** off.

SB You could have done the meeting Saturday night or Sunday. You could have had them watching videos, you could have organised them.

JK I was meeting the f***ing chairman the owner, everyone else. Talking about things.

SB It is a valid point that was made in there. A valid point.

JK I can't trust any of you.

Niall Hickman Joe, no one could believe that on your first day at your new club, the first-team players were not in. No one could believe it in town. Your first day in the office.

JK My first day was with the coaches. I made the decision that I wanted to get as much information out of them.

NH But why Monday, no one could believe it?

JK I'm not going to tell you anything. I don't understand where you are coming from. You are delighted that Newcastle are getting beat and are in the state they are? Delighted, are you?

NH Certainly not. No one wants to see them get beaten, why would we?

JK I have done it before. It is going to my f***ing lawyers. So are about three others. If they can find something in it that is a court case it is going to court. I am not f***ing about. I don't talk to f***ing anybody. It is raking up stories. You are f***ing so f***ing slimy you are raking up players that I got rid of. Players that I had fallen out with. You are not asking Robbie Earle, because he is sensible. You are not asking Warren Barton? No. Because he is f***ing sensible. Anyone who had played for me for 10 years at any level ... [but] you will find some **** that ...

Other journalist How long is your contract for Joe?

JK None of your business.

SB Well it is actually, because we cover the club. The club say you are here to the end of October, then you say six to eight games which would take it to the end of November. We are trying to clarify these issues. We are getting no straight answers from anyone. How long are you here for. It is a dead simple question. And you don't know ...

JK I was told the length of contract. Then I was told that possibly the club could be sold in that time. That is as far as I know. That's it finished. I don't know anything else. But I have been ridiculed. He's trying to f***ing hide, he's trying to do this or that.

There follows an exchange regarding the circumstances under which Kinnear had met the owner Mike Ashley and executive director (football) Dennis Wise.

Steve Brenner (football writer for the Sun) We are all grown men and can come in here and sit around and talk about football, but coming in here and calling people *****?

JK Why? Because I am annoyed. I am not accepting that. If it is libellous, it is going to where I want it to go.

Newcastle press officer What has been said in here is off the record and doesn't go outside.

Journalist Well, is that what Joe thinks?

JK Write what you like. Makes no difference to me. Don't affect me I assure you. It'll be the last time I see you anyway. Won't affect me. See how we go at Everton and Chrissy [Chris Hughton, assistant manager] can do it, someone else can do it. Don't trust any of yous. I will pick two local papers and speak to them and the rest can f*** off. I ain't coming up here to have the piss taken out of me. I have a million pages of crap that has been written about me. I'm ridiculed for no reason. I'm defenceless. I can't get a point in, I can't say nothing, I can't do nothing, but I ain't going to be negative. Then, half of you, most of you are trying to get into the players. I'm not going to tell you what the players think of you, so then you try and get into them in some way or another, so I've got a split camp or something like that, something like that. It's ongoing. It just doesn't stop.

Journalist It's only been a week.

JK Exactly. It feels more like a year.

Journalist It's early days for you to be like this.

JK No, I'm clearing the air. And this is the last time I'm going to speak to you. You want to know why, I'm telling you. This is the last time. You can do what you like.

Journalist But this isn't going to do you or us any good.

JK I'll speak to the supporters. I'm going to tell them what the story is. I'm going to tell them. I don't think they'll interpret it any different, I don't think they'll mix it up, I don't think they'll miss out things. I mean, one of them last week said to me ... I was talking about in that press conference where you were there, I said something like "Well, that's a load of bollocks ..."

Journalist "Bollocks to that" is what you said.

JK Bollocks to that. And what goes after that?

Journalist That was it.

JK No it wasn't, no it wasn't. What was after it? I don't know if it was your paper, but what went after it?

Journalist I don't know.

JK It even had the cheek to say "bollocks to Newcastle".

Journalist I didn't write that.

JK That was my first f***ing day. What does that tell you? What does that tell you?

Journalist Where was that? Which paper said that?

JK I've got it. I can't remember. It was one of the Sundays, not a Saturday. It was a Sunday.

Journalist But you didn't say that to the Sundays, you said that to us. That was during the Monday press conference.

JK I'll bring it in and show it to you. Why would I want to say that?

Journalist Are you saying that someone has reported you saying "bollocks to Newcastle?"

JK Yes. Lovely.

Journalist I don't know who's reported that.

JK I'll tell you what, I'll bring it in.

Journalist That's obviously going to damage you. That's not a good thing. But I don't think someone's done that. We have to have some sort of relationship with you.

JK So have I. But I haven't come in here for you lot to take the piss out of me. And if I'm not flavour of the month for you, it don't f***ing bother me. I've got a job to do. And I'm going to do it to the best of my ability. I'm not going to spend any more time listening to any crap or reading any crap. Stick to the truth and the facts. And don't twist anything.

Journalist You know, you know the game ...

JK Of course I know, but I don't have to like it.

Journalist Today we'll print the absolute truth, that you think we're *****, we can all f*** off and we're slimy. Is that fair enough?

JK Do it. Fine. f***ing print it. Am I going to worry about it? Put in also that it'll be the last time I see you. Put that in as well. Good. Do it.

Much, much later after long discussions over whether Kinnear had promised Alan Shearer and Kevin Keegan would be returning to the club

Press officer Let's get on to football. Let's have an agreement that everything said so far, if anyone has got their tapes on, it's wiped off and we're not discussing it.

Journalist But that's what Joe has said he thinks of us.

Press officer I'm saying don't push it. Let's accept what's been said and try and move on.

Journalist: Move on to not doing any more press conferences?

PO: No, to doing something now.

Journalist: What, one press conference only?

(Silence)

Journalist: Any knocks?

PO: Come on, let's go football.

Journalist: What are your plans for training in the next three days? How's the training going?

JK It's going very well. No problems at all.

Journalist Enjoyed getting back in the swing of things?

JK Absolutely. I've loved every moment of it.


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Tony Meolas Loan Spell

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Scotty Mac

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roy - no nonsense and, lets be honest, an utterly utterly shit manager who provides cracking entertainment, mainly in interviews
 




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A League One football manager was barred from a town-centre pub for allegedly dropping his trousers at an end-of-season staff party, a bar manager said today. The Cheltenham Town manager Martin Allen – nicknamed "Mad Dog" – was asked to leave and never return to the Salisbury, in Cheltenham, after allegedly taking his shirt off and parading around the pub with his trousers round his ankles.

The incident is said to have taken place during a staff night out, two days before Cheltenham's relegation fate was sealed by a 1–1 draw at home to Carlisle United.

The bar manager, Kirsty Wiseman, 38, told the Gloucestershire Echo that the former Queens Park Rangers and West Ham midfielder Allen was barred for behaving in a "rowdy manner".

She said: "He soon drew attention to himself by behaving in a rowdy manner, dancing up on the stage with his shirt off, surrounded by women.

"Then, when he was standing in front of the bar, he dropped his trousers, before parading up towards the dancefloor."
 


Scotty Mac

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Jul 13, 2003
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and as if that wasnt enough:

Police are investigating an incident involving Cheltenham Town manager Martin Allen after he was suspended amid accusations he racially abused a nightclub bouncer.

The 44-year-old reportedly launched a foul-mouthed tirade against doorstaff who refused to let him into Thirteen Degrees in St George's Road, Cheltenham.

Mr Allen is alleged to have called bouncer Garry Saintil a "black bastard" and has now been banned from the nightclub.

Ironically, details of the incident have emerged during national Kick Racism Out of Football Fortnight.

Thirteen Degrees' manager witnessed the racial abuse and says that Mr Allen also mocked his staff over how little they earned compared to him.

The incident, during which Mr Allen was trying to jump a queue of 60 people, was partly captured on CCTV until Mr Allen retreated to the other side of the street and reportedly challenged Mr Saintil to a fight.

The alleged outburst comes four months after Mr Allen was barred from the The Salisbury, in Montpellier Street, after allegedly dropping his trousers and parading in front of pub-goers.

Mr Saintil, who is of African American descent, said: "He was totally out of order. When he realised he wasn't going to be allowed into the club he became insulting and aggressive.

"There were racial undertones in the kind of language he was using and he referred to me as a 'black bastard'.

"He wouldn't accept that he wasn't going to get in. He stayed outside the club for about an hour, prowling around and staring at me from across the street.

"At one point he challenged me to come across to the car park opposite for a fight. He also threatened he was going to get someone to do me in.

"I just told him not to waste his breath. There's no excuse for that kind of behaviour. He was totally obnoxious."

Mr Allen, who took over at Cheltenham Town in September last year, has come under increasing pressure from supporters in recent weeks after a miserable run of results on the pitch.

The Robins are currently 20th in League Two with only three wins from 13 games this season.

Friday's defeat against Macclesfield Town was their fourth defeat in the past six games – a run that has seen them score five times but concede 14.

Thirteen Degrees owner Matthew Bull called his behaviour "disgusting".

Mr Bull, who witnessed the incident and was also one of the targets of Mr Allen's abuse, said he planned to warn other nightclub owners about his antics.

"I was there," he said. "There was quite a large queue outside the venue and he started to try to force his way to the front. He was shouting his name.

"I don't want someone in here who behaves like that. He was a disgrace.

"Our staff do a fantastic job and are all highly experienced.

"He was mocking their roles and making disparaging comments about how much they earn compared to him.

"I went in to try to cool the situation and he was abusive towards me as well. We have had the players in here before and they have never given us any trouble.

"There were a few un-PC comments made by him, including some racial abuse directed towards one of the bouncers.

"I don't intend to take the matter to the police. I think a banning order will be sufficient.

"Unfortunately, Mr Allen doesn't know how to behave himself. He's not welcome here anymore."

Mr Allen hit the headlines for the wrong reasons when he was barred from The Salisbury.

'Mad Dog', as he has been nicknamed by football fans, allegedly danced on the stage with his shirt off before dropping his trousers and parading towards the dancefloor in front of pub-goers during a drunken night out.

Allen this evening issued a denial to the claims.

In a statement released to the League Managers Association website Allen said: "A number of false and grossly untrue allegations have recently been made about me in relation to an alleged incident outside a nightclub a few weeks ago, including the completely untrue allegation that I made a racial remark."

"I wish to confirm that these allegations are untrue and deeply hurtful to me and I will now be taking appropriate steps to clear my name.

"In the meantime, I will be making no further comment."
 








Pantani

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Dec 3, 2008
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Smoking on the bench is the very definition of a flair manager.
He has managed, Licata, Foggia x 2, Parma, Messina, Lazio, Roma, Fenerbahce, Napoli, Salernitana, Avellino, Lecce x 2, Brescia and Red Star Belgrade.
 










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