I READ with interest Alex Narey’s ‘Let’s not follow Jose’s example’ (NLP, August 25) and fully endorse how the written press has changed and somewhat marginalised nowadays, completely governed by the club press officers.
Many years ago, the club’s local reporter and one of the nationals was an integral part of all proceedings. More importantly had great relationships with the manager.
Good examples of this in the professional game include Sir Alex Ferguson and Bob Cass of the Daily Mail, Brian Clough and John Sadler of The Sun. The was so much mutual resp...