CULT Post-Match Interviews
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After the broadcasting of football matches, the British Broadcasting Corporation, Independent Television and British Sky Broadcasting interview the protagonists. The following are the best from their archives:
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[edit] Graeme Souness
'Well, I think we, erm, when you get tired, when you’re young, you get tired, you stop concentrating and I think that’s happening to us. When you get old and you’ve been round the block a few times and you know what it’s all about, when you start to get the messages from your legs, telling them tired, telling them, telling your brain they’re tired, message that goes back says, you know, no they’re not, we’re going to dig even deeper and I think right now we’re suffering big-style from people… as they get tired their concentration… dips.'
[edit] Micah Richards
'Garth Crooks: So Micah, how are you feeling now?
Micah Richards: It was just great to be out there, I fucking just can't believe it!'
[edit] Kevin Keegan
'When you do that with footballers like he said about Leeds... I've kept really quiet, but I'll tell you something: he went down in my estimation when he said that - we have not resorted to that. But I'll tell ya - you can tell him now if you're watching it - we're still fighting for this title, and he's got to go to Middlesbrough and get something, and... and I tell you honestly, I will love it if we beat them - love it.'
[edit] Wee Gordon Strachan
- - Reporter: Welcome to Southampton Football Club. Do you think you are the right man to turn things around?
- Strachan: No! I was asked if I thought I was the right man for the job and I said, "no, I think they should have got George Graham because I'm useless!"
- - Reporter: Is that your best start to a season?
- Strachan:: Well I've still got a job so it's far better than the Coventry one, that's for sure.
- - Reporter: Are you getting where you want to be with this team?
- Strachan:: We're not doing bad. What do you expect us to be like? We were eighth in the league last year, in the cup final and we got into Europe. I don't know where you expect me to get to. Do you expect us to win the Champions League?
- - Reporter: Gordon, you must be delighted with that result?
- Strachan:: You're spot on! You can read me like a book.
- - Reporter: Gordon, Austin Delgado?
- Strachan:: I've got more important things to think about. I've got a yogurt to finish by today, the expiry date is today. That can be my priority rather than Austin Delgado.
- - Reporter: This might sound like a daft question, but you'll be happy to get your first win under your belt, won't you?
Strachan:: You're right. It is a daft question. I'm not even going to bother answering that one. It is a daft question, you're spot on there.
- - Reporter: Bang, there goes your unbeaten run. Can you take it?
- Strachan:: No, I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe jump off a bridge. Umm, I think I can take it, yeah.
- - Reporter: There's no negative vibes or negative feelings here?
- Strachan:: Apart from yourself, we're all quite positive round here. I'm going to whack you over the head with a big stick, down negative man, down.
- - Reporter: where will Marion Pahars fit into the team line-up?
- Strachan:: Not telling you! It's a secret.
- - Reporter: You don't take losing lightly, do you Gordon?
- Strachan:: I don't take stupid comments lightly either.
- - Reporter: Can I have a quick word, Gordon?
- Strachan:: Velocity
[edit] Mick McCarthy
- Everyone who blames Kelvin for the third goal is probably looking to blame him for the tsunami and every other disaster.
- Footballers are quite stoic. They can be having a tough time and they never want to be left out. They always want to play and sometimes it can be to their detriment. I had a spell at Manchester City when I was having a holocaust.
- Lennie Lawrence and his assistant, Terry Burton, were unhappy referee Tony Leake had allowed play to continue after what Lawrence described as "an obvious head injury" to Bluebirds right-back Rhys Weston, but McCarthy was having none of it. "I think it's gobbledegook," the Sunderland manager said. "Was anybody aware that it was a head injury? If (play) goes on for a long time you'll hear all the crowd shouting but I thought it was in an instant that the ball dropped, got to Welshy (Andy Welsh), got put in and we scored. I think we're taking political correctness far too far on the pitch. Nobody knew how bad Rhys Weston was. I hope he's OK, but I'm not bothered - we scored off it. It's happened to us. I wouldn't tell my players to kick the ball out straight away, I want to win the game. Nobody knows he's got a cut. If one of my players stopped and had a look, saw he'd got a cut and said `kick it out', I'd kick him in the bollocks! I'm delighted we scored off it. Unlucky."
- this particular tirade is perhaps most notable for an inexplicable shoutout for political correctness.
[edit] Arsene Wenger
- "I did not see ze incident"
