.............. if our manager came out with a tirade like this? "I get sick to death, we play one bad half and we`re all s*** and we can`t play. The manager doesn`t care. Get somebody who cares." 'I`m a boring c***, somebody called me last week. I wish they would call it to my face on my own because his pint of lager he would have been wearing it." "I heard the comments and let me tell you if that`s what they think about me and my team then they are sadly mistaken. I`m not having that." "It really does hurt me. Up and down like a bloody fiddlers elbow. I`m alright one week but I`m not the next." "I`ve just been speaking to the lads at Sky and they said there was a "suggestion" from their pundits that it may be onside I said, well make your f***ing mind up, it either is or it isn`t". "I live in a black and white world. They decided it was onside." "If that is the case then I will be battering PGMOL`s door down again on Monday morning with a tirade of, "Hey, any chance of us getting a decision?" "No I won`t… I`ll be doing that tonight on their answering machine." "Somebody asked me on TV, "Did you do enough to win the game?" Well quite clearly we didn`t win. What a stupid bloody question, no because we didn`t score two goals !" Very eloquent eh? Is he just passionate or just a complete arse?
Well of course he's an arse, he always has been. But he's also right. Just as Roeder was right to criticise our fans for being so quiet (though not sure he really thought we'd be as vocal as Newcastle or West Ham). I'd rather a manager be honest than pay lip service and say "the fans were great" like the players do.
