Anyone want to bet that if a Liverpool player came off the bench, and shoved an opposing player in the face during a skirmish, that said player would not see at least a 3 game ban?
Interviewing players who have been subbed off? Thatāll be riveting: āIām disappointed in my performance today and will obviously have to work hard and play better next time.ā
Yawn. What would be far better is if the subbed player said, āThe managerās a clueless cunt and Iām gonna fucking deck him in the changing room after the match.ā
Thereās a video which pops up on social media from time to time but I can not find it at the moment.
Itās an old clip from Turkish football in which a player gets fouled near the sideline and immediately gets interviewed by a reporter while the match goes on.
The changing room broadcast is a feature of US coverage, but there are critical differences. These started as a way for the newspapers who were on deadline to trackdown athletes who would otherwise camp out in the changing rooms until it was too late. Obviously that is not the driving force here, and the clubs are already contractually obliged to provide people for post-game interviews. So this just seems a way to get more access and leaning on a model that is familiar to them. But the NFL players union has recently started procedures to ban them, calling them a gross invasion of privacy that the players hate.