a) If he's saying this in the press, he'll more than likely be saying it in the dressing room - the depressing b****** that he is.
b) As if the players just go home from training and sit in a dark room with their fingers in their ears going "LA LA LA LA LA LA". They'll know exactly what he's saying.
or he's lying through his teeth in order to give Morecombe proper respect and not just to be perceived to be arrogantly looking down at them and saying something completely different to the players.
Judging on previous form, I know which one is more likely to be correct
the one which fits better with the current agenda? Sorry but its an annoyance of mine, theres plenty out there for people to have a go at him for without this kind of thing which every prem manager would say something along the same lines to the press.
He said if they get physical we'll lose ffs
There's showing respect and there's utter f***ing madness.
he's right, we get into a physical game with them we're doing something very wrong when we should be using our (in theory) superior technical ability to beat them.
Exactly. It's a fact of football from grassroots to the highest level that inferior teams will try to make the game a physical one to get the upper hand. All he's saying here is that we need to use our technical ability to win, not 'MORECAMBE ARE MINT AND WE'RE GOING TO GET BUMMED'.
There are so many things he can be rightly criticised for, standard pre-game comments aren't one of them. Unfortunately if you're anti-Pardew on here though, you have to be against every single thing he says/does.
What utter bollocks.
Okay. The vast majority of posts in this thread support this, but nevermind.
I'd say there's probably a wealth of evidence that supports it, like. You might struggle to find any showing it's 'utter bollocks'.
True...
