Pep’s Spurs (H) Post-Match Interview

[mayo31]

Thank god you don’t sit near me.

How do you know if i do or dont

For all we know we could be on nodding terms

 

[Bluefen]

Chelsea fan's view on Pep interview

Decent watch, guy makes some great points - thanks for sharing

What was his point about pep calling Haaland out in his interview - I missed that

 

[Cellarite]

Pep wants us to become Bayern Munich fans all singing in unison nothing spontaneous.

Did he tell you that?

 

[Stevieatlasblue]

Pep was calling out fans without thinking that he hasn't had to pay to go to a game for donkeys years. He really needs to think about it. Most of us home fans have been going for years and will still be going long after Pep and the current crop of players have gone. Also does he not realise that those brilliant away fans we have are also home supporters. I wasn't happy when he had a go at us last season and I wasn't pleased the other night.

He’s not having a go about folk paying good money to go to watch games. He’s on about our dire atmosphere at home which is very quite most of the time. We sat in silence first half of spurs.our away crowd are decent. Always singing with a passion.

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

I can remember standing in the Kippax and you could hear someone fart in the Main stand at times.

That was me, sorry mate.

 

[Stevieatlasblue]

The fire is still burning in pep,but he’s called the players out and the fans let’s fucking get going,we could see a similar game on Sunday but it’s up to us then to get behind the team and push them over the line give them that extra energy..

This post every time. Well said blue. I remember going to Roker park Sunderland with City.. we sang where’s your famous Roker roar.. every time Sunderland attacked us in our half they rose to the occasion. Very excitable Makems with us lot adding to creating a powder keg of an atmosphere. Back in the day

 

[OB1]

I booed because we had played badly and made stupid mistakes.

Like Pep, I can accept losing to a better team every day of the week (within reason)

I can't accept half arsed efforts and elimentary mistakes.

I won't accept it from Pep or the players. They are supposedly at the top of their profession and while nobody is perfect, the failings have been on show for the majority of this season.

It means too much to me. Passion comes in all forms, Pep, and I have more than you will ever have for this Club.

Irrespective of how brilliant you are at your job.

Football consumes you?

My love for City consumes me more. Not even in the same postcode.

My typing is getting worse!

I've said elsewhere, I won't boo the team but I'll certainly moan and groan at a match if performances are bad. However, I try to live by the rule that getting on the players' backs in not helpful.

Pep of course won't have the passion for City that we have, he's a Barca boy, born and bred and that is fair enough: he is a Catalan, not a Mancunian.

His passion for winning though would take some equalling: rather obviously, it's one of the reasons he is so successful.

What annoys me, and this is not aimed at you, is when our supporters go on about, he doesn't get us - often prevalent in regard to Derby games. Quite why anyone thinks a highly intelligent man, who is not just a fan but also has spent most of his playing career at and also very successfully managed his boyhood team who happen to have one of the firecest rivalries with another side in sport, cannot empathise with and understand how the supporters of the club he has managed for seven years feel, is beyond me.

You mentioned, I think, the lavish bubble he lives in, and there's no doubt he does. The players do too. They are so well looked after and paid. However, Pep is smart and comes from a very humble background. I think he understands plenty.

Anyhoo, I think the crowd was actually one of his least concerns. He wants to put the spark into his players and he'd like a bit more help from the stands, which ain't unreasonable.

 

[Roachy]

Maybe the Directors Box can chip in by having it's own singing group or doing the Poznan every now and then like us commoners in the stands.

 

[kaz7]

He’s not having a go about folk paying good money to go to watch games. He’s on about our dire atmosphere at home which is very quite most of the time. We sat in silence first half of spurs.our away crowd are decent. Always singing with a passion.

Did you sing and shout ? Clap? anything or sat in silence ?

 

[Mancity1980]

Decent watch, guy makes some great points - thanks for sharing

What was his point about pep calling Haaland out in his interview - I missed that

I was wondering that as well.

 

[tonea2003]

If only we’d had Pep and the standing Kippax. He’d know what passion is then.

only to experience warm piss running down the back of your leg because you couldn't move, thats real support ;-)

 

[tonea2003]

You have to be clever ? the players did defend Rico with the officials and spurs players, but It's when I fear city lose the plot and any game plans, and we leak goals in a short space of time,

not saying you don't have to be clever, but as I've said previously ferna, zabba and vinnie wouldn't have let that twat go unchecked

 

[eastmanc]

He’s not having a go about folk paying good money to go to watch games. He’s on about our dire atmosphere at home which is very quite most of the time. We sat in silence first half of spurs.our away crowd are decent. Always singing with a passion.

We sat in silence because there was nothing to cheer, that has always happened and I've been going since the early seventies. The atmosphere was better in the second because city were a hundred percent better.

 

[ancoats]

not saying you don't have to be clever, but as I've said previously ferna, zabba and vinnie wouldn't have let that twat go unchecked

all 3 of them had many a red card or yellows for being known for just that ? pep does not play or want the players missing games, yes passion but shown in a controlled way, but don't lose your head ? walker did it, and pep went fucking mental at him.

we all want to see passion and desire from the players, but we are Manchester city not united or Liverpool, the officials love nothing more than a city player going in the book or sending him off, it's the leveller

 

[Keepingthefaithsince1976]

We sat in silence because there was nothing to cheer, that has always happened and I've been going since the early seventies. The atmosphere was better in the second because city were a hundred percent better.

Sorry mate but I'm not agreeing with that. If we love City we support them warts & all. When they need our support we have to lift them. When things are not going our way for whatever reason it's our job to back them. I don't know one City fan who wouldn't prefer an atmosphere in that 2nd half compared to the first. Who creates that noise? We do. We have to be pro-active as a fan base. We should not & cannot wait until things are going our way as it may not always happen. I've been at some amazing City games...home & away....when we were crap & when we were much better. You cannot beat being part of a vociferous crowd of football fans. It's absolutely brilliant. Real hair standing up on the back of the neck stuff. When it's quiet it's awful. Don't wait for the person/mouse next to you. Open your mouth. Let out all that stress. Raise the roof. Shout your lungs off for your beloved club. Inspire your fellow blues. Do that & I guarantee you will leave the stadium a lot happier than when you arrived.

 

[Irlamblue]

The guy is relentless. A total Winner.

i just hope all the anti drum brigade wake up

 

[eastmanc]

Sorry mate but I'm not agreeing with that. If we love City we support them warts & all. When they need our support we have to lift them. When things are not going our way for whatever reason it's our job to back them. I don't know one City fan who wouldn't prefer an atmosphere in that 2nd half compared to the first. Who creates that noise? We do. We have to be pro-active as a fan base. We should not & cannot wait until things are going our way as it may not always happen. I've been at some amazing City games...home & away....when we were crap & when we were much better. You cannot beat being part of a vociferous crowd of football fans. It's absolutely brilliant. Real hair standing up on the back of the neck stuff. When it's quiet it's awful. Don't wait for the person/mouse next to you. Open your mouth. Let out all that stress. Raise the roof. Shout your lungs off for your beloved club. Inspire your fellow blues. Do that & I guarantee you will leave the stadium a lot happier than when you arrived.

You don't have to have it but that's the way it's always been whether you like it or not. Not saying it's right but we are not the only fan base who is like this.

 

[stonerblue]

not saying you don't have to be clever, but as I've said previously ferna, zabba and vinnie wouldn't have let that twat go unchecked

Have to say I was a bit disappointed that I didn't see any of the senior players Twat holjberg..

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

We sat in silence because there was nothing to cheer, that has always happened and I've been going since the early seventies. The atmosphere was better in the second because city were a hundred percent better.

I know what you mean, but I can't abide sitting there quietly, the players need that encouragement sometimes

 

[eastmanc]

I know what you mean, but I can't abide sitting there quietly, the players need that encouragement sometimes

You are right but the other night it was fucking freezing and I don't think that has been taken into account. We needed the game to be better to warm us up. Like the second half.