Probably a combination of a few things.
He said in the interview with Ferdinand last week, “They have to do well, we prepare, and they have to do well. The human beings have a tendency to relax, and in this team with me, this is not going to happen! So they have to do it better and better.”
We haven’t been doing it better and better. Since about the 15th minute at the Emirates, we’ve been doing it worse and worse.
This is guess work, but his comment at the end last night; “Now we arrive in the right moment for the season, and the right moment in the season where there’s not many games, and they’re not going to play. The players that help me a lot during this season, help the team a lot, the players are going to rotate less, and it’s going to the players who thinks about the, you know, the club, and the team, and the rest will sit on the bench!”
Straight away I thought of Laporte, and he didn’t have a good game last night. Mendy has barely been seen since he broke lockdown rules. What’s going on with the contract situations with Sterling? and de Bruyne? and Agüero?
But most of all, he just seemed pissed off with the penalty decision and in saying three important things:
“You know that for a long time, maybe in four or five years, I’ve never really complained about the referees, but this action is really in-cre-di-ble, in-cre-di-ble!” - and it was, it was a fucking STONE WALL penalty!
Which is important because, like he said, “Today, okay, it was 5-2, but at that moment it was 1-1. If we are not able to win the game with the quality of the opponent, we are just - not “just”, it’s enough - we are eight points clear and in that moment it’s 1-1”. - implying that decisions like that at crucial times of the game, like 1-1, can change the game, and possibly the title race. Let’s say we did lose last night and after we are just 8 points clear (once games are caught up), the mentality of everyone at City United/Leicester changes and the title race can be swung on little moments like that. Referees need to be better than getting decisions like that wrong.
And then finally, his point saying, “in this club, I don’t know in other ones, but in this club, what we have done this decade, over the last years, we won it, we did it for ourself, that’s for sure!” - that’s literally a swipe at PIGMOB, VAR, the Cartel, the Premier League, UEFA, the Spiteful 9, letters being written, Scudamore’s comments, FFP, Der Spiegel, the emails being cropped and tampered with... because we have had to do everything for ourselves, we’ve had no helping hand from anyone like others have consistently. Everything we win, we win through our own quality and battles against all of that shit. Decisions like that penalty last night could indicate that the Premier League want a closer end to the season. It was that bad a decision that you start to think things like that... That would certainly make me angry!
