Last updated 11:48, Thursday, 02 October 2008

IF TV interviewers insist on sticking a microphone in the faces of football managers in stressed situations, what do they expect?

Newcastle United’s temporary boss Joe Kinnear, right with head in hands, used a mild expletive during a live interview for the BBC’s Football Focus.

Anyone handed the poisoned chalice of sorting out United would be justified in using a lot stronger Anglo Saxon.

I really am fed up with hollow apologies when the odd naughty word slips out. Manish Bhasin’s sickly apology was worse than Kinnear’s indiscretion.

It’s live telly. What do you expect? Golly gosh, or a four letter word that did rather adequately sum up the substance in which Newcastle currently find themselves?