The job was demanding enough when managers were responsible for picking a winning team and fending off a hostile press.

The fewer his words, the less a hostile press could twist them.

Hostile press belied the audience's enthusiasm for his style, freer than the stylised stage gestures of the day.

In the following year this emboldened him to embark on a crackdown on an increasingly hostile press, which was calling for greater economic and political reform.

A hostile press made it impossible for him to get good coverage.