The gaffer really came out fighting tonight didn't he!
Appalled at accusations of over-physicality Warnock raged: "I think that's a disgraceful statement. If I'd spent nearly £4.5m on players, I'd probably say a bit less than that.
"He should keep his mouth shut and as how come we carved them up so often and created so many chances.
"I thought the challenge on Paul Anderson was a yellow card, not a red card. It was a reckless challenge but it wasn't deliberate."
The Yorkshire-man was responding to Billy Davies's comments in his post-match interview who told BBC Sport: "When you look at the way Neil sets his sides up, it's a very difficult game for a young, maturing side.
"It was a big test - physically and mentally. They had to play a certain game. It certainly wasn't pretty".
Neil Warnock took exception to his comments and fumed at Forest manager Billy Davies; and quite rightly so.
This is the championship, you will come up against players like Clint Hill and no matter how many millions you have spent in the summer, if you can't deal with physicality then you can't complain.
You can understand the managers frustration as it seems every week opposition managers excuse poor results against us by trotting out the "Their played a typical Warnock style" line. We competed with Forest today, had the better of the stats and played some good football, and yet we don't get any credit for this as media outlets scramble to jump on the all to popular anti Warnock stance.
Take the Football League show for instance. There are disagreements between managers across the country every week but as soon as it's Warnock, they dedicate a section of the show to his post-match comments. Another key example of this media bias was revealed by Warnock this week in his Independent column: “Something else which did not get much coverage was the news that Cardiff had withdrawn the accusations made after last week's game. Funny that, because the allegations themselves got a lot of coverage.”
On the other hand though, I suppose having this growing reputation should ensure that teams continue to dread their visits to South London, and that we continue the impressive home form we've enjoyed of late.
2 comments:
The issue here is more to do with the fact Clint Hill swung an arm at Anderson who had to be taken off due to the force of the damage bt Hill.
That's what Davies is aiming his criticism at, not so much the dirty tactics used by Palace, Although I realise he does criticise that too.
Other than that disagreement, I think you've got a good blog mate!
I think your right with Davies although i was hinting to other managers aswell, who seem to blame us for not rolling over and playing to our strenghts.
It's all good a bit of disagreement is what it's about.
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