MAURICIO POCHETTINO is struggling dogs’ abuse as boss at Chelsea this season.
From being booed by his personal followers within the stands to trolled mercilessly from a protected distance by web diehards accusing him of wrecking the membership from inside.
Funnily sufficient, it’s a completely different story when Chelsea’s head coach meets the punters head to head whereas out walking his canine in what little spare time he will get away from making an attempt to build a crew able to chasing constant honours.
Pochettino mentioned: “Maybe it is because they are scared of my dog — because it is a big dog.
“It’s a Rhodesian Ridgeback. It’s massive. Maybe they are nice with me because of that?
“I spend one hour, maybe one hour and a half with my dog and sometimes I meet the fans in different places and they ask me things. I can tell them the truth.
“Fans sometimes get an image that is not real. That is fake.
“Maybe sometimes my words are taken or a photograph is taken of me looking sad but I am not a sad person. I laugh a lot, I smile.
“I am very positive. I am not acting. I try not to act.
“Sometimes people get the wrong idea. And if you face me on the street you will become in love — especially if I have my dog.
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“When I walk every day with my dog in different places I feel the appreciation from the fans.
“On social media, it can be, ‘Hey, you must do this, do that’ but here, it is the opposite.
“When I am on the street, the people are really good.
“They appreciate and give us credit for working in a project and process that is so difficult, because the people who understand football know what is going on here.
“They appreciate our commitment, the way we behave and the way we believe and support all the decisions that were taken before we arrived.
“All we want is to help and add our knowledge and experience to be more competitive and help the team win games. That is what is most important.”
Poch’s terrifying-sounding pooch Sansa is called after a personality in Game of Thrones, Sansa Stark.
It’s a Rhodesian Ridgeback. It’s huge. Maybe they’re good with me due to that?
Mauricio Pochettino
This so-called captive queen apparently begins off with a naive view of the world however she turns into a extra ‘hardened individual after suffering one betrayal and cruelty after another’.
After almost 15 years in teaching, greater than 5 of these spent at Thursday night’s bitter opponents Tottenham, there could also be extra to the canine’s identify than we think about.
Pochettino definitely wants his Chelsea gamers to be dogs of conflict on Thursday night — eight years to the day for the reason that notorious Battle of the Bridge.
That was when Tottenham’s goals of a primary Premier League title had been crushed by a surprisingly pumped-up Blues crew enduring their worst season for twenty years.
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WHEN Manchester United obtained fortunate of their FA Cup semi-final, Antony’s first intuition was to goad heartbroken opponents Coventry. To rub their noses within the filth.
Antony appears to be a vile individual however this isn’t actually about Antony. Because Antony is merely a symptom of the hideous illness inside England’s high flight.
There is a lot flawed.
After our elite golf equipment persuaded the FA to fully scrap Cup replays — which gave us Ronnie Radford and Ricky Villa and Ryan Giggs — with out due recompense or reasoning with the remainder of English soccer.
The earlier day, after his Manchester City aspect had defeated Chelsea within the different FA Cup semi-final, Pep Guardiola whinged concerning the fixture scheduling of TV corporations who successfully pay a lot of his £20m wage.
Up at Wolves, Guardiola’s pal and rival Mikel Arteta was enjoying the identical unhappy tune about fixture congestion, regardless of his Arsenal aspect having performed two fewer video games this season than Coventry — who don’t have £50m squad gamers to rotate with.
Chelsea, oh Chelsea. The one-time plaything of a Russian oligarch now owned by financially incontinent enterprise capitalists who’ve piddled £1billion on a squad of gamers who struggle like weasels in a sack about who ought to bask within the private glory of scoring the penalty that places them 5-0 up towards Everton.
Tottenham’s Mousa Dembele obtained a six-match ban after being despatched off for violent conduct.
Pochettino, 52, was within the away dugout that eventful night time and soccer’s man of peace even obtained caught up within the scrums as the sport spiralled uncontrolled with 12 bookings — 9 for his Spurs.
Anger took over from soccer as Spurs handed the title to Leicester and the sport was used as a benchmark for studying functions.
Poch mentioned: “We used this game after time, time, time, to talk and to see and to review and to reuse to try to learn from this game.
“Players like Eric Dier were young and it was out of control. He became more mature after this game. We used all this experience to be better and better and better.
“Son, Dele Alli, different players involved in this game.
“We were playing well but we missed how to control the emotion when you compete for big things.
“That was the point that made us more mature and to start the season after believing.
“Then happened different things, circumstances that affected the situation of the team.
We have to be careful how we judge the young players because this is about them making mistakes and how they learn and improve.
Mauricio Pochettino
“We realised with this group we could go and fight for big things. It was tough but at that moment the team showed great character.
“I don’t remember their position in the table. I think they were mid-table like we are now.
“But we were talking about massive players . . . Hazard, John Terry, Costa, Willian, Matic, Azpilicueta, Cahill.
“We have to be careful how we judge the young players because this is about them making mistakes and how they learn and improve — and then maybe they can perform better.
“But we have worked out in our head what we need to do next season.”
Whatever it’s it should be with out veteran defender Thiago Silva, 39, who introduced he’s leaving after 4 years.
What ought to have been a one-year keep has stretched and the Brazil legend is a vastly influential determine within the dressing room.
Poch mentioned: “It’s true that over the years it is more difficult to find this type of player. We are talking about a 39-year-old. It is not easy to find this profile of player.
“He is an amazing guy, an amazing professional. Nearly 40, an amazing career.
“The players, the fans, the club is going to miss him but he is happy. He is so proud of his career here at Chelsea. I wish him the best.”
