Training ground spats are nothing new in professional football.
It is a contact support, and the rewards for the young men taking part can be substantial.
Therefore, I was not surprised to hear that one of Senhor Caixinha’s Hispanic acquisitions left a Quintessentially British team mate in a heap yesterday.
What transpired after the full-blooded challenge was illumining though.
With the player still crumpled in agony Senhor Caixinha, who was refereeing the practice match, did not stop the game.
This was a releaser cue for the moderator for the Quintessentially British WhatsApp Sevco group to intervene on behalf of his countryman.
The Portuguese manager dismissed the complaints by saying that was the type of fighting spirit he was looking for.
The Sevco player snapped when he heard this.
He then made the observation that the ex- Al-Gharafa supremo was a “Poundshop Mourinho” and was a total imposter.
My information is that he was supported in his rant by several of the Sevco old boys.
Senhor Caixinha then spoke to the tackler in Spanish, and this seemed to have re-ignited the on-field dispute.
The Senior Professional came to Murray Park in the afternoon, and by that time the news of the training ground confrontation had reached his ears.
He raised the incident with the Portuguese Guardiola and received a similar answer.
Senhor Pedro Miguel Faria Caixinha informed the Senior Professional that they were in a war.
Well, I think he is correct on that one.
However, the battle lines might be on the home front.
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Better watch your step here Phil, or you might be facing a slander claim fae poundshop themselves ????k
The war analogy adds a new context for that fine phrase “Mind the Gap.”
The gap, rather like that war of Pounshop fame, is now between the new galacticos & the old dark stars.
The gulf between them can only continue to widen with each scenario that Pedro has engineered. Like a compulsive gambler who thinks that his next card trick will win him the jackpot.
He has tried to unite the squad behind green boots policies, WATP signs & talk of European adventures. He has only created the plot for his own downfall.
Some managers unite the squad by making it a “them & us”, but the “them” are usually folk outside the club.
Other managers are smart enough to unite the squad against the coach himself, but that only works if you have an agent feeding back what the moaners are doing.
Pedro seems to have neither strategy in place. All his eggs are in one basket, one that only includes his own hispanic guys. Is it likely that in the not too distant future, the mighty WATP club could field a team composed entirely of catholics?
I can hear the sound of gnashing of teeth & renting of garments as STBs are burned.
The Blue Room squad are making Pedro effigies already.
Is this a crack in the same club edifice? Surely he’s a Woolworths Mourinho?
“If you can’t dazzle them with your brilliance, then baffle them with your bullshit. ” w.c. fields could have been talking about pedro, the bullshittin’ bullfighter.
Jayz, Phil, I was woke from my doze last night with the thought that one of the PR (Pure Rubbish) ‘selling points’ of Pedro the week he came in was that he ‘knew Mourinho’, when it turns out José had spoken to him, like, twice at some managers get the gither.
As someone on the Celtic Blog said ‘One guy spoke to some other guy’, which, in Rangers* parlance, means he ‘MUST BE A GENIUS!’
What a gang of total fuckin numpties, the word ‘Gullibillity’ could have been invented for them.
‘Pound Shop Mourinho’, wtf else did they expect ..? 😀
Poundshop Mourinho. Still trying to associate themselves with the old, dead poundshop club then…
Whit! Pedro is trying to get them playing “vertical football” I heard him, imbeciles! Vertical War Football is the way!!
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Aye, their baw’s up the dyke!
Pound shop Pedro , sounds like someone out of Rab c nesbit and he s fae govan too! Jamesie “green boots Cotter” isnae
Sleekit enough tae get a game wi the Mexicali strangers at least he tellt ye he was workin on the side”letters” while he’s gettin his giro.
The Quintessential British Sevco Kleek and Pedro’s Portuguese Men of War do have one thing in common…the absence of a backbone.
having a wee madronho at the moment, enjoying the crack, followed you from the start phil, what a journey, bought downfall but heard it all from you before that, keep up the great work, hail hail.
Maybees sevco troops got mixed up on the signing front with the Brunos!
The brothers Alves & Frank….
For the avoidance of doubt – Philmac is my coffee- break blog of choice. Pure class ???
I do hope the SFAs Referees read this.
I find it illuminated intent for the forthcoming season and the poor legs of all Sevco opponents.
Red cards against Sevco expected.
maybe he should bring back the green boots…
Sitting in Glasgow enjoying the sunshine and having a nice wee martini and getting some really strange looks cos I can’t stop laughing at that great wee story my ribs are killing me keep up the great work Phil wee donation on its way HH
Obrigado
Poundshop Maurinho hahahahaha!!!
Sitting having a nice wee pint in Glasgow enjoying the sunshine and getting some strange looks as I can’t stop laughing at that great wee story phill bloody brilliant keep up the good work wee donation on the way HH