Thursday, March 19, 2009
Filthy Brown
If you listened carefully you would have heard Hull City manager Phil Brown whining all the way back up the M1 on Tuesday night after seeing his team lose 2-1 to Arsenal in the FA Cup 6th round.
Like every good manager, and all the bad ones, when his team loses he needs a scapegoat because sure as eating vindaloos gives you the shits it ain’t going to be him or his players’ fault they lost a lead.
The Tigers dominated much of the first half and had the chances to open up a bigger lead than the 1-0 they took into the break with them. They didn’t. They had a goal disallowed, they scored through a lucky deflection and they failed to convert the rest. The key word here is they failed.
As the second half wore on the result was inevitable. Arsenal score late goals, Brown should have known that. They’d hit the crossbar, gone just wide. It was only a matter of time.
His defenders made a right old balls up and clearing the ball from Bendtner, who never had the thing under control, before van Persie drilled home from close range.
Then came the decisive second. Replays showed Gallas was offside but the linesman, following the spirit of the law which says the attacking team should be given the benefit of the doubt, thought the keeper had got a touch. Replays were inconclusive, what chance the lino?
Brown was having none of it. His post match press conference was embarrassing. His whining matched the Aussies after they lost the Ashes, he lashed out at anything and everything to show that though his team had lost it wasn’t his fault.
He has a pop at Fabregas who wasn’t even playing, accusing him of spitting at his assistant. The ref and linesman were of course fair game as was Arsene Wenger being French and all that.
We must remember of course Phil Brown’s background. He learnt his trade at the feet of that whiner extradinaire Sam Allardyce. The media’s favourite manager, the man who encouraged his players to kick first, play later. The man who signed El Hadj Diuof twice.
If Allardyce is the anti-football then Brown is one of his little imps. An ambitious imp no doubt with an eye for the camera and the headline.
Hull City play football unlike his mentor’s but behind that gleamy white smarmy American politico smile there is all the pent up anger and hatred he imbibed from Big Sam.
He has done a wonderful job with Hull. I gave them credit when they beat us 2-1 at ours earlier in the season. But on Tuesday night Brown showed his true colours. A sore loser quick to blame everyone but himself, much like every other manager, his outburst may well ensure that the Tigers are no longer the neutral’s favourite.
He of course won’t give two hoots about that. He is answerable to the board and fans of Hull and at the end of the season his report card will look pretty good. He deserves the praise he has received so far this season just as much as he deserves the brickbats after the other night.
Like every good manager, and all the bad ones, when his team loses he needs a scapegoat because sure as eating vindaloos gives you the shits it ain’t going to be him or his players’ fault they lost a lead.
The Tigers dominated much of the first half and had the chances to open up a bigger lead than the 1-0 they took into the break with them. They didn’t. They had a goal disallowed, they scored through a lucky deflection and they failed to convert the rest. The key word here is they failed.
As the second half wore on the result was inevitable. Arsenal score late goals, Brown should have known that. They’d hit the crossbar, gone just wide. It was only a matter of time.
His defenders made a right old balls up and clearing the ball from Bendtner, who never had the thing under control, before van Persie drilled home from close range.
Then came the decisive second. Replays showed Gallas was offside but the linesman, following the spirit of the law which says the attacking team should be given the benefit of the doubt, thought the keeper had got a touch. Replays were inconclusive, what chance the lino?
Brown was having none of it. His post match press conference was embarrassing. His whining matched the Aussies after they lost the Ashes, he lashed out at anything and everything to show that though his team had lost it wasn’t his fault.
He has a pop at Fabregas who wasn’t even playing, accusing him of spitting at his assistant. The ref and linesman were of course fair game as was Arsene Wenger being French and all that.
We must remember of course Phil Brown’s background. He learnt his trade at the feet of that whiner extradinaire Sam Allardyce. The media’s favourite manager, the man who encouraged his players to kick first, play later. The man who signed El Hadj Diuof twice.
If Allardyce is the anti-football then Brown is one of his little imps. An ambitious imp no doubt with an eye for the camera and the headline.
Hull City play football unlike his mentor’s but behind that gleamy white smarmy American politico smile there is all the pent up anger and hatred he imbibed from Big Sam.
He has done a wonderful job with Hull. I gave them credit when they beat us 2-1 at ours earlier in the season. But on Tuesday night Brown showed his true colours. A sore loser quick to blame everyone but himself, much like every other manager, his outburst may well ensure that the Tigers are no longer the neutral’s favourite.
He of course won’t give two hoots about that. He is answerable to the board and fans of Hull and at the end of the season his report card will look pretty good. He deserves the praise he has received so far this season just as much as he deserves the brickbats after the other night.
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