Gabriel Sutton

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@GW_Mktg He actually asked a series of positive questions and then brought up Tuchel’s perspective on performance

@GabSutton Clarke can ask what he wants, but he opened the interview with a false statement, he didn’t understand Tuchel’s responses, then onto Bellingham where, instead of positively saying “the manager wants more”, he focused on the negative. Great job, but in a toxic profession!

I believe the reaction to the whole England journalism stuff reflects a wider societal challenge we have, which is getting things in the middle. As human beings, we tend to overcorrect our mistakes. I think we're all acutely aware of the horrible treatment different players, managers and teams have got in the past, which was engineered by the press and they deserved a lot of criticism for that. But what that means is we're now hyper-sensitive to the media asking what I perceive to be valid, and fairly standard, questions. With that hyper-sensitivity, we're almost doing a disservice to the likes of Tuchel and Bellingham, and their agency as grown men who have chosen to represent our nation, to answer difficult questions as part of that agreement. Yes, you want the media to be on the side of the team, which I do think broadly they are, but it's also their job to be inquisitive, clear things up and attempt to find out what's really going on. Gabriel Clarke was within his rights to ask the tough questions. Thomas Tuchel handled them absolutely brilliantly. Jude Bellingham showed he's got an elite edge, and is not afraid to push back and challenge people in a healthy way. All three came out of it well for me: mountain out of a molehill.

Honestly, I really didn’t see much wrong with it. If I’d seen the reaction first, I’d have expected to see a full interview of manipulation, twisted words and relentless negativity. Could’ve worded things slightly differently, perhaps, but I’ve seen people say he should be sacked for a couple of questions based on a truthful premise. I find the scale of the backlash over the top.

@GabSutton @BenDJ91 You are being too kind to Clark. He knows where the line is and he knows he crossed it. Probably deliberately. He's far from being a rookie. Learn from the mistakes of others Gab. 🤞

@sumsECFC Yeah fair enough, I just didn’t see it that way at all. He could’ve phrased it slightly differently for clarity, but it was only a couple of questions that were based on factually accurate statements - so I’m slightly bemused by the scale of the backlash

The problem is Gab is that media will try to make a mountain out of it. I get where you’re coming from, and of course have a lot of respect for your good self in what you do, but for me questions like those asked last night are ripe for “spin” which a few in the media love to do, and personally I feel when that comes in to play, the reporting becomes unethical. In the days before social media, the papers would twist things to try and control the narrative - now with social media, it’s easier for people to call things out when they see something suspect. I don’t think Clarke got it right last night with some of his questioning and I’ve called it out on here today as “scummy behaviour” because of what I’ve seen in the past. Whether it was intentional or just clumsy wording (the latter of which I have personally been guilty of in the past) remains to be seen. Like you say though he is human, and my empathetic side hopes he takes the criticism on board and is a bit more mindful going forward. I can but hope.

Don't you think, though, Dave, that we're inherently suspicious of journalists having that sort of approach because of what's gone before, and therefore we ascribe bad intentions to them before it's necessarily justified? I think if that interview happened without this divisive history of England and media, we wouldn't bat an eyelid.

@GabSutton The problem was never the questions. It's that he went hunting for division with Jude that just wasn't there. He knew what he was doing, he twisted things, and got the reaction he wanted. England United? Nah ITV decided to stirr up division, that didn't and doesn't exist.

Thanks, appreciated Lothrup. I do like to think I hold myself to high standards of journalistic integrity and I'm grateful to you for recognising that. At the same time, I also think the line between being inquisitive and being provocative is a fine one that's very subjective, and I felt the questions Gabriel Clarke asked were fair.

@GabSutton @BenDJ91 Not buying it Gab. He cherry picked the bit that was most likely to get a bad reaction. Please never go down this route yourself. You're better than that.

@Garjomo I'd be curious to know what he said that you'd perceive to be a lie. I think your argument would hold more water if you said he was being economical with the truth in order to get a reaction - I still don't quite see it that way, but that might be slightly closer to reality.

@GabSutton That's oversimplified what happened though wasn't. A journalist / reporter should ask questions. But they should also listen and respond to that. Will Tuchel be either didn't listen, deliberately tried to bring bias in or put words in his mouth. With Jude he lied. Simple.

@LouisCarrLane You define them as provocative, which is fair - I define them as inquisitive

@GabSutton No English journalist should be asking provocative questions while we're still in the tournament imo. Quite literally nothing to gain.

@BenDJ91 Disagree - with Bellingham he just said Tuchel wasn't happy with the performance, which was true

@GabSutton Clarke did not ask tough questions. He asked questions he didn’t understand the answer to and then tried to spin a narrative for some sound bites

@ToweringZigic I felt like he said Tuchel said the team could’ve played better, which is true. If he was really exploiting it he could’ve repeated that Tuchel said the team got lucky. Clarke didn’t actually use that word.

@GabSutton I thought Gabriel Clarke misrepresented Tuchel’s words purposely in order to get a reaction from Jude - that’s the part I thought was cynical and a bit naughty

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