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.

 

[OB1]

He’s the least slated City manager that’s ever lived

That really isn't relevant. He gets criticism and he is perfectly entitled to give it back.

 

[awest]

Pep probably had that speech ready to blast out before the world cup. He waited until the perfect time to deliver it. Only time will tell if it had the desired effect.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Talksport trying to capitalise on peps comments about the fans. They've brought a blue fanzine writer in and he's telling them what for.

 

[nellyonthewing]

Football is entertainment, sporting skill ,flair , tribal rivalry, moments of intense drama but not all the time. Sometimes plain effort and endeavour are all that's on view but that's OK.. In recent times the plodding, yes -boring style we have been playing does not engage with the crowd. The audience has changed and for long periods they are looking at their phones rather than the 10th sideways pass. We have at the Etihad witnessed the two most dramatic finales in sport. Its hard to serve up cold paste sandwiches after caviar.

 

[malg]

I was there and don’t recall much booing at HT probably because the wall of noise from the PA system that boots up when the HT whistle goes. Maybe the comfy nice people he talked about are in the vast amount of posh expensive seats that proliferate the stadium, either way i couldn’t give two fucks, we were shit in the first half, if those who dragged their arses to the stadium on a freezing cold night when they could have stayed home and watch it on the box want to let of steam then that’s up to them. I thought the atmosphere was pretty good especially second half. The season has been weird and fucked up cos of the WC bang in the middle. Either way I’m looking forward to Wolves on Sunday. Come on City!

There was definitely boo'ing down in the bottom tier. Not many, but it was easy to hear. Hey ho, it is what it is.

 

[Woody135]

The boos were for the performance not the ref.
It was a build up frustration over the past few weeks where our standards have dropped off a cliff.
Culminating in conceding 2 stupid goals in the minutes before HT.
If that had happened midhalf and still finished 0-2 with otherwise the same play there wouldnt have been boos
It was just extremely current in our minds

Dont expect a passionate crowd without negative passion when it goes the wrong way

 

[bluedreamer]

I’m not endorsing the booing but maybe it galvanised/shamed the players to respond how they did.

 

[meeesh]

That really isn't relevant. He gets criticism and he is perfectly entitled to give it back.

Gets criticism from tools on Twitter and the like who’ve never stepped foot in the ground

 

[Zenmanc]

Clearly something was said by someone in the dressing room, considering the immediate change in tempo in the second half, so I can't see what the difference is between that and the fans booing.

So you can't see the difference between which would be more impactful on your second half performance- words strongly uttered from a coach or teammate spurring you forward or booing from fans half whom are likely 4 drinks in and more focused on how the performance impacts their wager than what's actually going on on the pitch.

 

[Tolmie scores]

We seem to “turn up” in the second half far too much , it’s like falling asleep when your fillet steak main turns up - then complain it’s cold and ask for a discount on the bill because it’s “cold”

Thing is singing an all that was more organic...football special into Maine Road or whatever few scoops in Park or Sherwood, meet mates on the Kippax and the fact your standing up, a few them pissing about arguing over someone putting too much 'baccie in their rollie and loads of other trivial none sense..makes it easier to just start shouting out, singing, singing along, making something up etc..all in all it was just a very different experience. Singing from the seats is a bit weird really truth be told
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