Mahrez: Spurs Title collapse was funny

[Hazardousman]

http://www.skysports.com/football/n...niest-moment-of-last-season-says-riyad-mahrez

Leicester winger Riyad Mahrez has labelled the collapse of Tottenham's Premier League title challenge as the funniest moment of last season.

The 25-year-old was named the 2015/16 PFA Player of the Year after enjoying a season to remember as the Foxes completed a remarkable rise from relegation candidates to Premier League champions.

Tottenham had kept pace at the top, but threw away a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 at Chelsea in May to hand Leicester their first league title in their 132 year history.

Mahrez and some of his Leicester team-mates watched the match from Stamford Bridge at Jamie Vardy's house and the Algeria international has revealed what his feelings were on that historic evening.

"The funniest moment [of last season]? I think it was when Tottenham were 2-0 ahead of Chelsea," he told FourFourTwo.

"All the team were at [Jamie] Vardy's house thinking 'we're probably not going to be champions tonight.

"I was like, 'What's the point of coming?!' and then 2-1, 2-2. It was funny."

How classy of him, I hope our players use this to fire themselves up and prove people wrong about our mentality.

Surprised Mahrez isn't an Arsenal player, he would fit right in there with this sort of attitude.

 

[dontcallme]

Seriously?

Can we stop expecting footballers to be like politicians and phrase everything is such a neutral way that they are bland beyond belief.

If a similar situation happened and we went onto win the league I'd have no problem with one of our players enjoying it or finding it funny.

 

[Geyzer Soze]

At Jamie Vardy's, was he? Havin' a pardy no doubt ...

 

[Amo]

I would have found it funny if I wasn't a Spurs fan.

 

[onthetwo]

I wont be at all amused if theyre the first team to win the league and get relegated the following season

 

[Gassin's finest]

Source?

Top trolling nevertheless...

 

[Geyzer Soze]

I wont be at all amused if theyre the first team to win the league and get relegated the following season

I will

 

[Hazardousman]

Seriously?

Can we stop expecting footballers to be like politicians and phrase everything is such a neutral way that they are bland beyond belief.

If a similar situation happened and we went onto win the league I'd have no problem with one of our players enjoying it or finding it funny.

Footballers are supposed to set an example for kids getting into football, being gracious in victory for example, it's half the problem with today's game is the lack of respect from players towards officials and more importantly towards supporters.

Mahrez might not see the obvious but without supporters from every single team paying to watch games football would not exist, he wouldn't be getting a pay packet.

It's one thing to think something is funny or even as a paying suppporter to share these sentiments, it's another for a professional footballer to share these sentiments because when he does he is finding joy in the misery of the very people who make the sport he gets paid to play relevant in the first place, it's not just laughing at another teams misery it's also laughing at the supporters.

Ultimately I just find it classless myself, if our players did it I would be embarrassed, that's one thing I like about Poch though, he leads with respect and professionalism, I think he would be annoyed if this was one of our players saying this.

 

[Hazardousman]

Source?

Top trolling nevertheless...

Sorry forgot to add it http://www.skysports.com/football/n...niest-moment-of-last-season-says-riyad-mahrez

 

[Dougal]

Footballers are supposed to set an example for kids getting into football, being gracious in victory for example, it's half the problem with today's game is the lack of respect from players towards officials and more importantly towards supporters.

Mahrez might not see the obvious but without supporters from every single team paying to watch games football would not exist, he wouldn't be getting a pay packet.

It's one thing to think something is funny or even as a paying suppporter to share these sentiments, it's another for a professional footballer to share these sentiments because when he does he is finding joy in the misery of the very people who make the sport he gets paid to play relevant in the first place, it's not just laughing at another teams misery it's also laughing at the supporters.

Ultimately I just find it classless myself, if our players did it I would be embarrassed, that's one thing I like about Poch though, he leads with respect and professionalism, I think he would be annoyed if this was one of our players saying this.

Was a bit funny though, wasn't it? Y'know, apart from it being gut-wrenchingly personal/close to home. If Leicester were chasing us at that point I'd crack a smile.

 

[TheHoddleWaddle]

I don't think we should be so sensitive as to find this insulting in any way. We have threads on laughing at other teams, which many have joined in on. So what if he found it funny? I'd find it funny in the reverse situation.

(I still want to call him horrible names though).

 

[Gassin's finest]

I like how he said "what's the point" just because they weren't going to win that night. So if you're not winning, you can't be arsed? Explains why you're shit this season then...

 

[Hazardousman]

Was a bit funny though, wasn't it? Y'know, apart from it being gut-wrenchingly personal/close to home. If Leicester were chasing us at that point I'd crack a smile.

I mean from a supporters perspective I think it's fine to have a laugh about it but I think in football there is a huge lack of respect from players in general and that will never improve until they start understanding sportsmanship and decency towards the people who pay their wages.

I would have laughed my arse off if we would have pipped Leicester to the post, however I would have been publically sportsmanlike about it when all was said and done.

Difference is though, even if I wasn't decent about it I am not a footballer setting examples for children or younger footballers getting into the game, setting an example for respect amongst other sportsman and teaching them how to be gracious and sympathetic in victory.

It's a shame that is an exception rather than the rule these days, reminds me of a video I watched on social media a while back with a kid playing for the barca youth team consoling members of the opposing team after his team won and knocked them out of a cup, it was honestly heartwarming to watch.

In contrast here we have a professional footballer saying how he finds it funny that another team failed and showing no compassion for the supporters of that team whilst doing so, the same supporters who ultimately in the larger picture make football relevant.

In general I just find it tasteless, it's like something Jack Wilshere would do.

 

[Dougal]

I mean from a supporters perspective I think it's fine to have a laugh about it but I think in football there is a huge lack of respect from players in general and that will never improve until they start understanding sportsmanship and decency towards the people who pay their wages.

I would have laughed my arse off if we would have pipped Leicester to the post, however I would have been publically sportsmanlike about it when all was said and done.

Difference is though, even if I wasn't decent about it I am not a footballer setting examples for children or younger footballers getting into the game, setting an example for respect amongst other sportsman and teaching them how to be gracious and sympathetic in victory.

It's a shame that is an exception rather than the rule these days, reminds me of a video I watched on social media a while back with a kid playing for the barca youth team consoling members of the opposing team after his team won and knocked them out of a cup, it was honestly heartwarming to watch.

In contrast here we have a professional footballer saying how he finds it funny that another team failed and showing no compassion for the supporters of that team whilst doing so, the same supporters who ultimately in the larger picture make football relevant.

In general I just find it tasteless, it's like something Jack Wilshere would do.

I think you living in a world of pipe-smoking, pats on the back and hand shakes. This isn't a post match interview in which the player has been media trained to within an inch of his life. It's a light-hearted magazine article 6 months later. It was a joyous moment for Mahrez, the epitome of his career, with the lads in an informal surrounding. If he can't look back and laugh about how it suddenly all came together then he may as well give up.

 

[talkshowhost86]

No point getting upset over stuff like this really. He's just being human. Yes footballers need to realise they are role models but that doesn't mean acting like robots. A bit of 'megabantz' at another team's expense is more than fair enough.

Plus, it will really come back to bite him on the arse when they get relegated and he ends up signing for Newcastle.

 

[Hazardousman]

I think you living in a world of pipe-smoking, pats on the back and hand shakes. This isn't a post match interview in which the player has been media trained to within an inch of his life. It's a light-hearted magazine article 6 months later. It was a joyous moment for Mahrez, the epitome of his career, with the lads in an informal surrounding. If he can't look back and laugh about how it suddenly all came together then he may as well give up.

Can't we just agree he's a wanker at least? LOL.

 

[Hazardousman]

No point getting upset over stuff like this really. He's just being human. Yes footballers need to realise they are role models but that doesn't mean acting like robots. A bit of 'megabantz' at another team's expense is more than fair enough.

Plus, it will really come back to bite him on the arse when they get relegated and he ends up signing for Newcastle.

And we will probably buy him from Newcastle afterwards for an overinflated price and he will be a complete flop...haha.

 

[dontcallme]

I remember reading a Shankley quote along the lines of there only being 2 good teams in Liverpool, Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

It's kind of funny and no harm done.

If we decipher and split open quotes like Mahrez's to the extent the OP is then we are becoming pretty pathetic.

 

[WorcesterTHFC]

I wont be at all amused if theyre the first team to win the league and get relegated the following season

Don't you mean you won't be amazed if Leicester go down? If it does happen, I won't be amazed, but I will be amused (which I suspect is how a lot of other people will react if it happens).

 

[Dougal]

Can't we just agree he's a wanker at least? LOL.

I'm good with that