Manchester United Manager Louis van Gaal is certainly a character, and his press conferences are often “colorful” to say the least. Earlier this season, he called a reporter “a fat man” and labeled another reporter “pathetic” on a different occasion.
Today though brought a new level of Van Gaal being unprofessional, albeit very entertaining, in the way he treats the media who cover both him and his team.
Marouane Fellaini, a player that Van Gaal obviously seems to favor above many others, committed an obvious, blatant elbow to the face of Leicester City’s Robert Huth. Fellaini is lucky that he didn’t get a red card and sent off for this infraction (watch the video here). Fellaini could face a match ban when the Football Association review the tape of this incident, and his season could be done.
When Van Gaal was asked about this incident in his post match press conference, the Dutch manager responded by pulling on the reporter’s hair who asked the question. This according to the BBC’s Simon Stone.
LVG on Fellaini reaction to Huth pulling hair: "It is a normal reaction. How do you like it?" and pulls reporters hair.
— Simon Stone (@sistoney67) May 1, 2016
Yikes! That seems a bit “unorthodox” to say the least, on the part of Van Gaal. It si funny though.
Here’s the video:
https://vine.co/v/ixBUZAbWu7t
To further accentuate his point, Van Gaal brought up masochistic sexual activity. Interesting, given how earlier this season he asked his players to be “horny.” Again, this isn’t extremely professional, but yes it makes for great copy.
Van Gaal said hair pulling is only allowed in "sex masochism".
Two months after he said he wants his players to be more "Horny."
— Coral (@Coral) May 1, 2016
LVG grabs reporter's HAIR after question about Marouane Fellaini reaction: "It is only allowed in sex masochism" https://t.co/K5UpZrU4Dh
— Mirror Football (@MirrorFootball) May 1, 2016
Mad!
Louis van Gaal spoke about sexual masochism after Man United 1 – Leicester 1 (Video) https://t.co/jKF2qPFGHT pic.twitter.com/Xaz6CECEEw
— 101 Great Goals (@101greatgoals) May 1, 2016
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