The only difference between the 1st half and 2nd this evening - Same players, same system, just willing to take more risks
Pep is not beyond criticism
100% this. It's the only way to let them know it wasn't acceptable. I booed because standards had dropped not because of any sense of entitlement. They needed a kick up the arse. How else do we let them know?The irony of it all is.,
The same people who are praising Pep for the interview in which he claims it’s happy flowers for everyone and everyone is too comfortable and claiming it has ruffled feathers and put the fire back in the belly are the same ones criticising fans for letting the players and Pep know the only way they can that the performance is not good enough by booing.
The fans who booed last night are the ones who weren’t happy that standards weren’t being met, the same reason Pep bashed them at half time.
0-2 down at half time looking at our 3rd defeat in a row and potentially 11 points behind come Sunday, what is the crowd supposed to do? Sing a chorus of “we’ve got Guardiola?”
I bet the players got a bit of a shock hearing Pep complain about their lack of passion, fight and desire. Considering they had just completed an amazing second half fightback.
The irony of it all is.,
The same people who are praising Pep for the interview in which he claims it’s happy flowers for everyone and everyone is too comfortable and claiming it has ruffled feathers and put the fire back in the belly are the same ones criticising fans for letting the players and Pep know the only way they can that the performance is not good enough by booing.
The fans who booed last night are the ones who weren’t happy that standards weren’t being met, the same reason Pep bashed them at half time.
0-2 down at half time looking at our 3rd defeat in a row and potentially 11 points behind come Sunday, what is the crowd supposed to do? Sing a chorus of “we’ve got Guardiola?”
Bang on TolmieNeither can Pep have it both ways?
I booed them off at half-time because it was not up to our standards and hasn't been for weeks.
Booing the performance is an important distinction, demanding the team find the level it has set and trying to get a reaction.
We played shit at Southampton and for an hour at United, and neither were in front of our own fans.
Pep sprinkled a few home thruths into his rant, some more than valid, but it lies somewhere in between.
It's reverse psychology for dummies and another example that Pep is also not the same person and easily triggered, whether citing net spend trophies, publicly digging out an overweight player, or playing Cancelo on the right wing and then hooking him.
The crowd is disengaged at times, but he's out of order for a few things and he would know it if he didn't live in a complete footballing, lavish bubble.
Our brand of football can be beautiful, but lacks intensity, pace and power, so the majority of the crowd mirror our football, passive until it produces an outcome or reaction?
Other factors will always include the ridiculous cost of tickets. If the Club wants middle class fans and foreign tourists, you will get the crowd you deserve.
City don't want some twentysomething off the local estate spitting bile and spending nothing at the tills while they are there.
Pep doesn't need to tell me this team is way off it.
Guess what, you are paid £20m a year, you see them every day in training, you pick the team.
Sometimes it is simply on Pep, or the players.
I would never tell another fan how to support the team, whether it be at the game or in their own front room.
I'm as hungry as ever for success, never complacent about what we have won.
I'm now 48, however. I'm not the stupid 18 year kid who once shamelessly hissed gas noises at Spurs fans, simply because everyone else did it, sang Munich chants and stood outside the away end goading away supporters.
I'm a dad, I want to sit and enjoy the game with my son, I've lived a fan era which has long since passed. United, Liverpool, I am out of my seat a lot more.
Performances and rivalries will always dictate an atmosphere and level of hostility, same goes for a sense of injustice.
Otherwise we are just self-aware Scousers or Palace fans.
Yeah, just saw his comments and am very disappointed. Seems even the former blues are now being captured fully by the media.Just watched Micah response to pep after Match interview! Said sound like he has had enough! Micah you been with Carragher to long you 100% wrong and so so out of touch with Manchester City! Your playing the crowd! Totally disappointed with him
100% this. It's the only way to let them know it wasn't acceptable. I booed because standards had dropped not because of any sense of entitlement. They needed a kick up the arse. How else do we let them know?