Ed Aarons was at Selhurst Park this evening. His verdict is in, and here it is. Thanks for reading this MBM. Nighty night!
Roy Hodgson is asked by Sky reporter Emma Saunders how he would “assess tonight”, and his initial response is dry, moves through brittle, then barrels towards plain rude. “I can never answer those questions, I’m sorry I really can’t. How do I assess tonight?”
“What is your overriding emotion?”
“My overriding emotion after every defeat is pretty much the same, really. I’ve got to say I don’t really know how to answer that question. I’m finding it harder and harder to answer questions, because they’re not specific enough for me. I thought our first-half performance was good, we gave them a good game throughout … unfortunately when you’re 2-0 down it becomes very difficult … we took some chances … we put some players who haven’t played much for us and had a look at them … to be fair even right until the end the team was fighting … we scored a late goal and had lots of corner kicks.”
“Were you frustrated that the goal came as late as it did? Should you have found a way through earlier than that?”
“Well, again, I don’t quite know what to say to that. Yeah, we should have scored five or six against them I thought. I mean I dunno, what do you want me to say? I’m sorry. I don’t think we could have done more than we did against them … we are playing against a team that are top of the league … my [lightly sarcastic] overriding feeling at the moment is that it was unfortunate we couldn’t build on the first-half performance because of the unfortunate own goal that put us 1-0 down.”
“Thanks Roy.”
“OK.”
Emma Saunders has earned her wages tonight all right.
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