Nick Ames was at the Emirates. His report is in. Thanks for reading this MBM.
Roy Hodgson talks to TNT. “It’s very tough … obviously the first two goals, the corner kicks, we can be a bit aggrieved about that because there was a potential foul in both of those … until the last 10, 15 minutes, at 3-0 we were staying in the game … of course the last two goals aggravate the score enormously and make everything look even worse than it was … we deserved to lose the game because we played against a much better team … we stuck at it … the last two goals lend a suggestion that we didn’t stick at it and that’s unfortunate … games tend to [unravel] if you’re 3-0 down and especially if you make substitutions and the players we put on are young or without experience … obviously I should be more careful and protect the 3-0 … we’re going through a very bad spell … we were hoping to kick on and that’s not happened … fans are always entitled to their opinions … they care and want to see a strong Palace team … today they were entitled to make their opinions felt … but I’m afraid there are times when we look at it from our position, the team and myself, and what more can we do with the people that we’re trying to put on the field … it’s not always that easy … managers always take the full brunt of it … it makes me feel a bit sad and disappointed because I feel we’re doing the best job we could possibly do … but I’m a manager of a football club that isn’t in a very good position so everything that happens to managers in that position will happen to me … first we’ve got to stay in the league … success will also be getting back to the type of football I know we can play … but we have to get some of the players back who help us enormously … the people who make decisions about whether we can bring more players in will have seen the game today … they will have seen the situation we find ourselves in … it’s not easy and I can only hope they succeed in their mission.”
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