Whilst Twitter may bring the information in a more real and quicker sense, press conferences will certainly not be killed as an effect. Any fan of football knows that press conferences are integral to the mental aspect of the game. Managers and players use these televised events, not really to talk directly to the fans, but demonstrate their ability as well as try gain a tactical advantage over their opponents. So, no Twitter will not kill the press conference, but what it may do is cause huge headaches to managers \u2013 especially if clubs fail to get their act together and start laying down some clear social media policies (Which may restrict matchday tweeting). If we can assume players will tweet more, then we can also assume said journalists will use these tweets to try spin a story at the press conference. If anything, press conferences may get even more dramatic! I hope so anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cSometimes I\u2019d speak to a journalist, but you wonder to yourself, \u2018why do I speak to them if they are going to spin it?\u2019 when I can just say it here myself on Twitter...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n