Ole won’t Fergive and Ferget either
APPARENTLY Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is in dispute with a Norwegian TV channel, which will rekindle memories of Sir Alex Ferguson’s feisty relationship with the media.
Ferguson went seven years without talking to the BBC after a documentary about his son Jason working as an agent, and the former Manchester United d boss also refused for years to do post-match press conferences for newspapers.
Now, Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet has revealed current Reds manager Solskjaer is giving TV2 the cold shoulder until he receives an apology from the broadcaster.
TV2 attends press conferences and matches but, as rights holders, is used to getting extra access and one-on-one post-match
ANOTHER week, another breakaway league proposal.
Clearly, timing is everything and while FIFA and Premier League clubs are trying to pick their moment, all of this comes down to cash, revenues and TV rights. Italy is currently negotiating with a private equity firm to manage and invest in their TV rights deal and more will surely follow.
REFEREES are voicing concerns that new guidance on offsides will lead to more serious injuries.
Assistants are under orders not to raise flags and to let play continue under new VAR rules so players carry on playing until the whistle blows.
But the refereeing fraternity are worried it will result in more collisions and clashes between players.
The Jordan Pickford/ Virgil van Dijk incident was a case of crossed wires, but there is no way VAR David Coote would not have known the laws.
Clearly, he made a mistake in not getting referee Michael Oliver to interviews with Solskjaer which, according to Dagbladet, have not happened since March.
It centres on TV2’s coverage of a rape case involving former Molde midfielder Babacar Sarr while Solskjaer was in charge of the Norwegian club club.
The alleged victim insisted Solskjaer should not have carried on selecting the player with a court hearing pending.
TV2’s sports editor Jansen Hagen said: “Solskjaer will not appear for an interview with TV2’s journalists.
“He answers in English in joint sessions, but he does not give interviews to us on the field, in the interview zone, in the player tunnel or in other interview settings.”
Manchester United insist Solskjaer has fulfilled all of his TV contractual commitments.
check his monitor. It was quite a weekend for the Oliver household.
The Premier League ref lives in Newcastle, did the Merseyside derby on Saturday and then would have had to drive down to London to be VAR, with Coote in charge of Leeds v Wolves on Monday night.
Oliver’s wife Lucy – also a ref – annoyed Everton when she booked Brighton’s Kayleigh Green twice in their WSL game – but failed to send her off.
On top of that, the FA seem to favour Anthony Taylor over Oliver to be nominated as English football’s representative at the next World Cup.