Ten Bobsworth wrote: Sluffy wrote:A hour an half interview from Sharrock covering everything from Ian Greaves to Megson and from Phil Neal and the boo boys to Allardyce's ambition of playing in the Champions League.
Interesting stuff and certain to get a response from Bob once he can manage to drag himself away from Dale Vince's autobiography!
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Tell me, Sluffy, if I invested 90 minutes in listening to Messrs Shorrock and Iles would I have a better grasp of where all the jaw-dropping nonsense came from in the first instance?
Just depends on your mindset when you listen to it or not I guess.
I've always been one who likes to hear both sides of the story and I've never heard Sharrock's before but maybe you have and more than what he says on here.
In the interview Sharrock seems to say a split between the club and the paper happened over the sacking of Charlie Wright as manager.
Apparently the Chairman at the time Neil Riley believed Sharrock had done an hatchet job on him/the club and consequently instructed the new manager Phil Neal to keep Sharrock at arms length.
Sharrock got wind of this and apparently had a stand up argument with Riley.
This is now 35 years ago, so if that was the start of the 'feud' it's been going on for ages and I guess both sides have long since dug in over their positions.
Sharrock did say early on in his interview that the paper considers BWFC as the prime story in Bolton and drives its sales - I assume that still is the case, certainly is with me.
As far as I'm concerned it's the man that maketh the job and as such Iles has been in the job long enough to have changed the culture/feud/whatever it was existed between the two, by his behaviour and his professionalism over the years and he hasn't as can clearly been evidenced of how Eddie Davies, Phil Gartside, Ken Anderson and now FV have all been 'cold' towards him and Iles unprofessional and clearly biased behaviour with his support of those in direct conflict with the club owners such as the ST, being Team Holdsworth (v Anderson) and being the conduit for Wheater and the unofficial strike, etc.
I guess if Iles (or Sharrock) had anything about them and been good at their jobs they wouldn't have remained at the paper for the decades they have - indeed I posted an article up the other day about how the new Editor of the paper had started off as Iles tea boy and he'd gone up from the very bottom to the top in the organisation whilst Iles remained stuck in the same job. Iles isn't even a Bolton fan, nor even from the north, so don't tell me he wouldn't have wanted to be paid loads more for the nationals writing about the top Premiership clubs and Europe rather than wasting his life away tweeting about how wonderful our utterly not fit for purpose ST is!
Up to you if you want to listen to the interview or not, I wouldn't recommended it generally unless you have an interest in such things - and even then some like your good self may have heard it all before or may well even be already better informed about most of the things discussed anyway.
I think Wanderlust's three line review above sums it up fairly adequately.
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