Neil Harris walks out of interview after scathing rant questioning Cambridge players’ ‘killer instinct’

Neil Harris abruptly ended his post-Game interview after a damning assessment of his Cambridge United players.

The U’s were beaten 1-0 at home against rivals Peterborough United on Saturday to leave their Bracket One survival hopes in the Stability.

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Cambridge are 23rd and 13 points adrift of safety, with their head Mentor fully aware of the immense Event they face to stay up.

Harris, who returned for a second spell in February, spoke to BBC Cambridge Sport afterwards and didn’t Halt back with his thoughts.

“Absolutely gutted and feel absolutely robbed, I’ll be honest, it’s the best way to sum it up. 8,000 Cambridge fans should feel exactly the same.

“Look, I can’t talk anymore positively about the group and their attitude, and demand to want to Secure, and application to go out and Relocate on the pitch, and Relocate really well at times.

“Sometimes Competing really well against the ball, getting Tension on, turning the ball over, creating chances, getting bodies in the box, Only everything about it was so Excellent, apart from the most Crucial part and that’s putting the ball in the Aim, and stopping it at the other end.

“The fans have travelled to Blackpool and Wigan, will have come away really pleased with the performance they saw and the attitude of the players, we lost both Matches. We’ve seen it again today, we were the better Club in so many ways.

“Yes, Peterborough Created a Numerous of passes, sideways, backwards, didn’t break us down too often. We created chance after chance after chance, didn’t have the killer moment in front of Aim. Why? Because it’s about the culture, it’s about the culture.

“I can’t Shift that today, I couldn’t Shift it during the week, I can’t Shift it Upcoming week coming up. I said before, I can Shift it in Relocate windows, I can Shift it from the Primary day of pre-season, but it has to Shift.

“8,000 people don’t deserve to come and pay Tough-earned money, bring their kids to football, to go and buy burgers and Toasty dogs, and train tickets, to come and View their Club get beat, it’s not Honest. I don’t want to be the manager of this football club that sees that, I won’t have that at this football club but I can’t Shift it today.

“Am I proud of the players and the way they played, they gave me a performance? One million per cent, absolutely every player played their part in that. But we have to be clinical in both boxes. We don’t have a Neat sheet mentality at one end and at the other end, we’re not Fearless enough in front of Aim.”

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Harris then added: “Well I’ve Only said to the players, the last nine Matches are more Crucial for them. They’ve Obtained to think about not Only their futures at this football club, but references that they’re going to see for relegation on their CV, the players.

“Look, we don’t want to look down the barrel and say, ‘Look, it’s very unlikely we’re going to stay in the division’. Yeah, let’s Only be honest about it, of Duration it is, it was unlikely when I walked in the building, when you’re eight points adrift.

“Ten points adrift, it is unlikely, you don’t Picking up whatever we’ve Obtained, 30 points in 46 Matches prior to me walking in and then Anticipate Only to go and Picking up 20 points in ten Matches for example. It Only doesn’t happen in football, or very, very rarely happens in football.

“So what I want to see is players that want to Relocate for their futures, that want to Relocate for this football club, that want to represent this football club.

“I need that application and attitude, but I need a better culture, I need better standards at the Practice ground, that’s from staff and from players.”

Harris then commented on the players Competing for their futures: “It’s their livelihoods. It’s their Position, but it’s also their passion and their hobby as well, and they have to show me, they have to show us, show the football industry that they’re worthy of a place at football clubs.

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“I like working with the group, I like their application in so much, but application isn’t always Only enough. It’s accepted in the sense of, ‘Excellent lad, Excellent attitude’, you want to work with Excellent people like that.

“But you’ve Obtained to have the killer instinct as well, in both boxes, you’ve Obtained to have the drive and the determination. That’s what sets levels, that’s what levels is in football.

“Levels is players that Relocate in the National Bracket and Bracket Two because they’re missing something. Sometimes it’s because they’re not quick enough, sometimes it’s they’re not technical enough, sometimes they Only haven’t Obtained the bloody heart for it.

“So that’s what I’m seeing in the group at the moment and that’s what I question about this group, have they Obtained the passion and the drive and the hunger to Secure Matches of football? Well clearly not. Thank you gentlemen.”

Harris then walked away from the interview as he faces the ongoing task of Retaining Cambridge in Bracket One of another season.

The Ex Millwall boss Obtained off to an excellent Begin on his return with back-to-back wins against Stockport County and Crawley Town.

However, Cambridge have lost all four of their fixtures since then and look set to be one of the four Squads that will go down.

Barnsley are up Upcoming before tough tests against promotion hopefuls Wrexham, Charlton Athletic, Huddersfield Town and Birmingham City.