Pep’s Spurs (H) Post-Match Interview

[WestGorton]

I think Pep also said when Rico got fouled 4 times there was no passion from his team mates.

It was a trampoline. I have never boo'd City in my life but the shock element may have galvanized us.

 

[borassic]

We are the most genuine fans we cheer when we play well and we don't manufacture atmosphere. You know we playing well when the crowd is cheering them on

Totally agree mate we are genuine but it’s rare we create a cauldron of noise and really influence the team

 

[Bluemoon has risen]

Pep is spot on in his comments. There's no point getting protective about it.

He's right about the players and he's right about the fans. There is a malaise amongst everyone this season and there is an expectation that we will just "turn it around". It doesn't work like that and the players need to step up as do the fans NOW.

It's time as fans that we create a serious back to the walls atmosphere starting against Wolves on Sunday. We're in a serious fight with Arsenal this season and if we want to win the league we have to step up and play our part.

I don't go to every game now due to personal circumstances but I was sat next to a guy at the game tonight and he turned to my friend and said "is he normally like this?" jokingly, because I got fired up at 2-1 in the 2nd half. If this is the general consesus among fans then no wonder the players are feeling this malaise too. We're in a serious fight for the rest of the season and every little % and decision from a referee could make all the difference come the end of the season. This is where we as fans play our part. The team needs to step up aswell but heed the warning from Pep. He isnt doing this for nothing, hes doing it because he needs us to do it. Up the blues!

 

[Pollocks OG]

What a load of self entitled bell ends on here. We've just come back from 2 down against a Spurs team that we usually struggle against to win 4-2. I was there, SS level 3, and yeah the atmosphere was shit. I wanted it to be like Liverpool 2019 tonight (never experienced anything like that night) and it fell well short, for what could be considered as a make or break game in the title race, and coming back from 2 down, fans were shit and didn't do their bit tonight. Pep, with everything he's done for our club and how lucky we've been to have him, has EVERY right to call the fans out.

People on here moaning and sticking the boot in, slating him. Get a grip man. Obviously weren't around 20+ years ago.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Clearly the booing pissed him off and for me there is absolutely no need for that and it wasn’t just a few either. He is wrong about the first half though. The crowd were making noise but it was mostly directed at Spurs shit tactics of fouling our players over and over and the ref being his usual weak self. It wasn’t silent. The booing I think was a culmination of weeks of poor performances and what the fans perceive rightly or wrongly as some players not showing enough fight, as Pep alluded to and making stupid errors leading to goal after goal. Clearly the fans have a role to play but the players do to. Too many have been too half arsed this season and lack leadership. We need a leader in the back four and Stones stepped up second half. Ake showed tremendous spirit and fight and both Haaland and Alvarez upped their work rate by 2 notches. All the players did well second half but that wasn’t the case in the first when we played ok. It conceded another 2 sloppy goals

 

[freshie]

They were dreadful in the first half man. Those fans had every right to boo.
Hindsight is 20/20 now, but things looked increadly bleak before that 2nd half turnaround.

Do we fuck. If you want to boo stay at home shithouses

 

[domalino]

I bet Julen Lopetegui is sitting at home reading these comments and thinking “oh FFS, I have to play this lot on Sunday”.

 

[HolisticJim]

I think Pep also said when Rico got fouled 4 times there was no passion from his team mates.

We need a nasty twat of a Centre Mid. A Craig Bellemy / Paul Dickov to kick off and grab ppl by the throat when needed.

It's something we not had in this era that I can recall and I honestly think it would go a long way.

 

[fuskarn]

 

[Jam Tomorrow]

One of the reasons City players don’t confront the referee is simple, they don’t trust PiGMOL and are right not to. Anyway pleased Pep kept Alvarez and Haaland on together, they really didn’t give Spurs any rest and that was defo FFSs best ever performance in a City shirt.