Media training is very much alive in professional sport.
Players don't open up to the press as much as they used to. In their eyes, words can be used against them and get in a lot of trouble.
You have some athletes that are quite refreshing with the media; someone like Rory McIlroy never holds back when in a press conference.
And then you have the rest of them, donning the typical sporting clichés that don't really say a whole lot.
"We're just thinking about the next game and nothing else."
"We knew they would come out fighting in the second half"
"We can't take anything for granted"
"Any team can beat any other team on any given day"
"All games are tough."
"The game just got away from us in the end."
But Leeds striker Chris Wood took things to another level, giving the media and fans less than nothing.
The club is without a manager after Garry Monk resigned on 23 May and Wood, the top scorer in the Championship, came out with this absolute gem.
https://twitter.com/LeeSobotYEP/status/870326258474905601
Wood's statement really doesn't make a whole lot of sense, to say the least, and Twitter took notice.
https://twitter.com/paulie__/status/870326644212367360
https://twitter.com/LUFC1992/status/870333178472529922
https://twitter.com/RyanLUFC92/status/870389915816775680
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