The Manchester Evening News went into overdrive to produce a 13 page “Moyes Axed” special edition.
A spokesman for publisher Trinity Mirror said the publication yesterday complemented rolling social media and digital news coverage.
Moyes’ month tenure as manager was announced as over on Tuesday morning.
The Trinity Mirror spokesman said the edition had gone “gone to more than 11,000 homes”and was “also going on sale in Manchester through vendors and newsagents.”
Online, the paper carried a timeline and a vote on whether the club was right to sack its manager.
The website reported fans were split over the decision and carried a range of twitter responses from celebrities, pundits, and former players.
They included United fan and former cricket captain Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) tweeted: “If you are going to sack someone at least have the decency to tell them first rather than leak it. Poor from whoever it was at United.”
Football Focus presenter Dan Walker (@mrdanwalker) said: “Succession a mess 4 a club which demands success. Essential successor is a success or club will regress.”
Pundit and former footballer Mark Bright (@Mark__Bright) tweeted last night: “Someone who bleeds red is Gary Neville, he talks the talk why not give him a chance at Utd, Pep hadn’t managed anyone prior to #Barca”
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Surely there aren’t any Utd fans in the MEN circulation area?
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haha!
Good one Northern Snapper.
The Ham & High should do a special on it though.
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Isn’t Michael Vaughan a Sheff Wed fan?
Yep it even says so on his twitter bio
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Is there really 13 pages worth to SAY about a bloke losing his job? A significant news story, yes, but the acres and acres of space given to football matters in papers like the MEN probably annoys as many of the dwindling readership as it satisfies.
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I’d be more interested to know what approach is being taken in the MUFC fan heartlands… step forward the Surrey Advertiser and the Manila Bugle.
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Well they had 10 months to plan it.
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Surely credit where it’s due?
Any journalist worth his or her salt will recognise this as a job well done on an issue that MEN readers, from whatever tribe, will be interested in.
Even though some of the content must have been on the stocks, this shows what professional media people CAN do with a breaking story and across all (deep intake of breath) platforms.
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I don’t think World War Three is worth 13 pages.
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13 pages of coverage? No overkill there then. And I’m sure the paper was absolutely packed with content which people hadn’t been able to read elsewhere much sooner, say on that new-fangled thing called the web. Not sure the news “stunned” the football world either considering it was widely expected.
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So to clarify, an evening newspaper manages to get a story that broke at 8.30am (but had been on the cards for days) into that days newspaper. Well done!
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Talk about kicking a man while he’s down!! Football management is in crisis, I doubt we will ever see another Sir Alex!
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Yawn
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