Pep’s Spurs (H) Post-Match Interview

[Blue_Lightsaber]

This small bit of video is priceless, basically told Sky to fuck off without actually saying it

 

[OB1]

You've never booed a City performance?

Personally, if I don't see the team putting it in or producing unforgiveable mistakes, I will vent my spleen.

Pep called the fans out as complacency in success. It's nothing of the sort. I didn't boo because we were losing, I booed because the effort wasn't good enough and the mistakes, comical.

And it appears Pep agreed and called the players out at half time.

I don't think I've ever booed our players. Although I may have sung along to "you're not fit to wear the shirt at Grimsby away"; not sure but I like to think not. I do recall the look on Nicky Reed's face: he was livid.

 

[meeesh]

I don't get it tbh, Pep's very passionate about football and he talks from the heart in that kind of interview, that's what I want from the players and manager at City. If he wants to criticise the fans collectively I don't see why anyone should take it personally. He had a point he wanted to make and did so, fair enough as far as I'm concerned.

Well let’s look at it another way,no fans, no job,in fact the game is fucked without us and that’s everywhere,they seem to forget this a lot,what’s been said was uncalled for

 

[awest]

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[OB1]

Pep unraveling is my fear mate.

Kind of ironic, we have been treading water most of the season.With some of the most dire performances of the Pep era.

And he loses his shit after the second best 45 minutes of our season.No holding back either,players fault,fans fault....Not his obviously

Last time he started losing his shit it was our fans he started turning on.

He's not unravelling. He picked his moment carefully.

 

[MadchesterCity]

Surely the BOOS! were mostly for the disgust of the referee performance

 

[Coatigan]

I'm on the same page as Pep, we have people in the team selling him and us short, I just don't think he needs to throw the fans in to the mix, it just fuels the bogus narrative about City fans in general.

This. It is a distraction that will get latched on. Already has, to an extent. But I get that he is reaching anywhere and everywhere, and if it gets performances, so be it.

He meant complacency across the club, and I personally think he had a point and yesterday was the right moment to publicly call it out.

Agree or disagree with what he said, or parts of, the timing was fucking spot on.

He had a point, but that also should not exclude or distract from his input and part in it all. He can't have it both ways. If he is sat there watching a team unable to break down parked defences with passes around them, or the same group of players chasing a goal while hungry goal scorers with fresh legs sit on the bench, then it is can't be all entirely down to intangibles like desire and stomach. And fanbase expectations.

 

[awest]

I wish Pep had mentioned the bloke who sits in front of me. I only hear him get loud and passionate when he's moaning at a City player.

Well let’s look at it another way,no fans, no job,in fact the game is fucked without us and that’s everywhere,they seem to forget this a lot,what’s been said was uncalled for

The game will survive without fans at the ground.

 

[OB1]

Pep construed the booing with entitlement, when it was down to performance.

Do you think Pep was not critical of the team at half-time?

I've earned the right just as much as Pep to tell them when I think they are selling both themselves and us short.

He gets paid £20m a year for the privilege of doing that, but my money is just as good as his.

As Pep has revealed, we have players who aren't pulling their weight and I agree, so don't care about their feelings.

Pep didn't complain about the booing. He just said the fans booed because we were lsoing but not because we played badly (because we didn't).

 

[lancs blue]

Pep construed the booing with entitlement, when it was down to performance.

I think with some of the post-takeover intake it could be down to entitlement, we saw it happen with the rags who knew nothing but success for 20 years and turned into whining muppets when it all went a bit pear-shaped after Ferguson retired.