Pep’s Spurs (H) Post-Match Interview

[SidJames]

Don’t play at walking pace, people might get a bit more excited like the second half!

This VV

Our fans are no different to any other fans in the country.

He should buy a home season Ticket for the Swamp and Klanfield. Compare atmospheres.

Might change his mind .Atmospheres at those grounds is a myth.

The same with all big Stadiums tbh.

Places like Brentford are rocking,reason being they are small compact grounds with a hard core fan base.They dont have a shit load of glory hunters that fill grounds like Us,Rags,Livepool,Arsenal etc.

I get it,he is firing us all up.... i think.

Just dont sit well with me popping off at the fans "again" whilst ignoring your own misgivings that are responsible.

If you are reading this Pep.There is a direct correlation between shit,slow,inspid football that creates fuck all.That leads to crowd apathy.That Club with lots of history Fan base will tell you first Hand how quite Old Toilet has been recently.

Your team looks like they give a fuck as they did in that second half.Low and behold the fans rock the place out.

It is a team effort.

That was the first real decent 45 minutes of the Season since that first half against the Rags in the Derby.Just for some perspective Pep.

 

[Coatigan]

You reckon Pep and the team didn’t know they weren’t playing to the level needed until the fans booed? Or that they didn’t care until the fans booed? You think they played better in the second half because the fans booed? And that booing in the future when we go on a very short bad run or are not playing well in a match will lead to better outcomes?

By the same logic, how will the fans being noisier make any difference to how the team play with 'desire'.

No, I don't btw for what it's worth. Nor am I taking Pep's calling out the fans as literally as some and the media will.

He is right though, about the fan base becoming complacent (he didn't say entitled, others have translated it so).
We had people declaring the league over in January last year, and calling anyone that disagreed all sorts. Even this year, been taking it for granted so long, falling 8 points behind an arsenal who have only lost 1 game in half the season, and it is fine because they'll just collapse and gift us the title as long as we win the odd token game. On the other hand, just writing it off at this point is a form of complacency in itself. There's half a season to play, plenty to fight for, it is neither easy nor impossible. Let's see how the players react now.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Agreed but there have been a couple of times where I feel Tixki has dropped him in it, no LB, the Kompany replacement and maybe even the Kane non transfer, a player Pep clearly wanted very badly.

With the latter, we ended up with Haaland for me a much better option but I do wonder if Pep would still have Kane over him (?)

Then Pep is losing the plot even more than I feared!

Haaland is sweating for the cause, left it all out there last night and Pep has had six years to insist on getting that left back right.

 

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Scousers never have to boo the ref. They always get the decisions

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

We have 36,000 season tickets. Most of those will be long standing and enough to make a noise. There are enough fans to make a noise, we just don't do it often enough. Of course we get day trippers who don't know the songs or feel the need to be vocal, they are a minority.

You’re completely wrong in my opinion. I’m 59, have been a ST holder for 40 years and first went to watch city aged 10. Although I went mental when we scored last night, do you honestly think I jump about and sing like I did when I was a teenager or in my 20’s? I look around where I sit and I’m one of the youngest in there! The lack of new blood is obvious, is a major cause of any perceived lack of atmosphere and will only get worse the longer it goes on. My lad now lives in Surrey, he’s been a ST holder for 14 years but it now costs him upwards of £80 to get there as well as £750 for his ticket. Obviously he couldn’t make it last night but I very much doubt he’ll be renewing next season and, I’ll wager as much as you like, his ST will be bought by someone much older than he is. Especially as they get a discount for being a FOC!!

 

[SidJames]

Then Pep is losing the plot even more than I feared!

Haaland is sweating for the cause, left it all out there last night and Pep has had six years to insist on getting that left back right.

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.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

I see it slightly differently now after listening to Peps comments.

I think he's been picking these 'strange' looking sides because he's been looking for a catalyst to change the attitude.

And reading between the lines I get the impression that the so called big name players are not doing enough in training.

Hence him sticking with what we would consider the 2nd choice players in some positions.

Agreed, he has previously cited poor body language he has seen in training during the week?

I sense he feels let down by his supposed top players and each time he brings them back in, they still don't deliver.

I thought it was magnificent how Ake, Rico and Alvarez did the spade work of running and committing to their tackling.

I'd rather lose with these type of characters and go out swinging, than death by a thousand cuts and players who are getting fat on big contracts, or who fancy somewhere else now.

 

[PPT]

Micah is a clown who laughs a lot. Brings no insight at all.

SKY have set Micah up as the village idiot. It’s a role he plays well. No way would SKY have a serious ex blue pundit like Souness on their program. Micah is there to get the laughs and to be laughed at. Nothing more.

 

[tonea2003]

Dunno about anyone else but I’m loving it all. The difference in opinion, the debate, the passion, Pep’s masterclass in psychology, Jack’s tackle on Son, the second half atmosphere, a fully fit squad, a 4-2 comeback win against the spuds, we’re in the title race, fast attacking football….proper football is back!

you are spot on mate, but what i do want and pep called it last night is standing up for our younger lads when they are targeted like rico was by that twat hojbjerg yesterday
ferna zabba and vinne wouldn't put up with that shit

 

[geoff hammond]

But what standards of support are people expecting, mate? I don't see it anywhere else, either?

Our football is more like watching a beautiful opera than an Iron Maiden concert.

As I mentioned, I think the demographic has changed, exacerbated by a generational void of City and, football in general, monetising the arse out of it.

It's a middle class sport and younger fans have been priced out for a couple of decades now.

There's a drive to create a spectacle, we only had to watch that light show before kick-off last night, a desire to crave acknowledgement, recognition.

We aren't going back to the days of Rent Boys, Munich and You're Gonna get your Fucking Head kicked in. That's an era when grounds were intimidating and as a teenager, you stood with your mates and didn't really mean to offend, but only to get the rise out of the opposition fans.

I think Pep is wanting a hostility which can't be delivered, outside of booing the opponents in possession or the referee.

I'd argue there are few better atmospheres when Liverpool have been in town and it is the same fans who helped City come back from the dead against Villa when we saw a glimpse of hope.

Certain games or situations will get more of the juices flowing, it has always been that way.

Perhaps Pep might also realise from the team playing without the hardbrake in the second half, the urgency on show, that the fans became more engaged as a result?

Pep will have hated the risks in possession we took, but it's the way to go. Both in terms of results and not sending the Etihad to sleep.

I understand the changes in fan demographics and the pricing out of so many fans but if you had told the 1980s me that there would be boos (from a small minority) after achieving what we have over recent years I would have been gobsmacked - and to be honest I still am.

And I hate Iron Maiden !