Interview with The Hoff: Bad journalism or authentic?
Teamtalk and Tribalfootball – two sites writing about football on the net – today has an interview with Stefan Maierhofer as news. They both claim that the Daily Star is the origin of the interview, but when looking at their site I cannot find the article. Withdrawn or never there in the first place?
The interview goes as follows (from Tribalfootball):
““I don’t have a clue why I’ve not been in the team. I work hard in training, yet others get to play,” Maierhofer said in the Daily Star.
“Why have Wolves signed me only to not use me? Kevin Doyle cost £6.5million, so he has to play yet he has just got six goals in 25 games, which is not a great deal.
“The manager told me I lacked match practice after my operation.
“Then Andy Keogh came back from a three-month lay-off, trained for two days and then played against Bolton and Manchester United.
“I feel like they are taking the p*** out of me.“”
Talk about burning your bridges! Even if I had found the article at Daily Star I would have considered if The Hoff really would say such a thing. Cause if he has he will find it very hard to come back to Wolves and face Mick McCarthy, Keogh and Doyle.
So for the moment I will consider this a rumour with no substance. The source cannot be found. If anybody finds the article in the Daily Star, please notify me below.
Paddytheflea
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i did notice tjay this has also been on the sky sports website and there usually quite reliable.
however who knows who’s sky’s source is?
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_6031988,00.html
Skysports also writes that their source is the Daily Star, Phil.
I have written about this elsewhere and I hope it is another
‘jouno’ story and not true for if it is, Maierhofer is going to have to explain himself like never before!
I sympathize with him though because this is not the first time a player has been overlooked having been brought to the club for a fairly large fee and it does make one wonder what ticks the boxes for McCarthy when he decides to buy a player but then appears to put him out to grass!
The instance with Keogh brings up the old chestnut of
‘favourites’ once again but surely it cannot be – can it?
I believe it was a hasty decision. Probably because Iwelumo was injured. In the long run Wolves will lose much money on that. I like Keogh and think that he has much to give to the team as a second striker in the right formation. But I know many who think he – like SEB and Kightly – was brought back in the first team to soon after injury. It is not good for confidence to play when only 70-80% fit.
It’s on the Daily Star… Bangladesh site but as a link back to Tribalfootball…
Scroll down the page here: http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/topic/manchester-united
I think someone’s havin’ a larf…
Haha! So it is! Rumours from Dakha, Bangladesh. Is this how they do it? And they are complaining about the blogs like Paddytheflea spreading rumours. I do more research and am more critical to sources than Skysports and other so called ‘real’ media sources. Thank you Ched!