VIDEO: This Kid Shows Steve Staunton How To Handle The Media

Conor Neville
By Conor Neville
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Poor Stan Staunton could learn a lot from this kid.

Staunton always looked like he had been dragged to the scene of an interview by a gang of secret policemen who had just roughed him up next door. He spoke to the interviewer like a nervous six year old boy speaks to his school's headmaster.

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Compare that to this young boy, formerly Noah Ritter, now  'Apparently Noah Ritter'.

The first lesson is not to let the interviewer control the pace of the interview. Witness the way he wrenches the microphone away from the interviewer.

Lesson two (one which Stan sadly ignored during his tenure) is to make sure, no matter how inexperienced you are, that you make it look like you have seen and done it all before. Witness his world-weary, unimpressed tone. he's just been down a water slide but frankly he's not bowled over.

His striking, almost sneering, use of the word 'apparently' indicates that this young man is in possession of an unusually large degree of wry scepticism, outstandingly impressive in one so young.

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