The Guardian's joy of six - Memories of 2010

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

Get the f*** in

4) Liverpool's 'internet terrorists'

 

BBC News Channel presenter Ben Brown wins our inaugural Putting The W Into Anchor award for rubbish interview technique, after his outrageous and hilariously inept grilling of protestor Jody McIntyre. But Jim White over on Sky Sports News ran him pretty close. Interviewing James McKenna, a spokesperson for the Liverpool supporters union Spirit of Shankly, during the fag end of Tom Hicks and George Gillett's ownership of the club, White launched a red-faced attack on protesting fans.

 

"Nothing you can do will speed up the sale," White ranted. "They won't be removed until the time is right. Nothing you can do will change that. Do you not concede that? … Why should they hurry up a sale because supporters are protesting that they should do so? It's not up to you to tell Hicks and Gillett when to sell!" McKenna stood firm and kept his cool. "I disagree," he replied. "Hicks, when he put the club up for sale – interviewed on this very channel – said the pressure fans have put on him has told."

 

White was left seething, floundering, having revealed to viewers exactly how highly he thinks of the people who pay good money to go through the turnstiles each week. McKenna would later be fully vindicated when Hicks and Gillett were forced out of the club, the former whining like a stuck pig about online campaigns waged by "internet terrorists".

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