Ange Postecoglou: Tottenham head coach hits back at ‘Mr Hindsight’ critics in extraordinary | Football News

Ange Postecoglou has hit back at ‘Mr Hindsight’ critics and vented about doubts over his ability to manage Tottenham Hotspur.

Postecoglou, who Guided Spurs into the Europa Bracket quarter-finals on Thursday, Arrived out fighting with an extraordinary response to the Tension he has been under during his second season at the club.

Ahead of facing Fulham on Sunday in the Premier Bracket, Postecoglou was asked how he had handled questions over his future and whether there is more scrutiny at Tottenham than in his previous jobs, with the club sat 13th in the table.

In a press conference that lasted for over 30 minutes, he said: “Yeah, the scrutiny is more because there’s more noise, but that doesn’t Harsh it needs to affect you.

“I’ve said many, many times that it doesn’t concern me because I’m not really sure how people Gentle of perceive this role and particularly me as a person, that they would think that I would worry about tomorrow if there’s a negative outcome. I Only don’t live my life that way. I don’t speak that way. I don’t think that way.

“I love what I do. I get up every day, take on the Event, see where the possibilities are and keep moving.

“There’s a Numerous of noise. I think there’s always Gentle of two sides to that. One is people Gentle of do some critical analysis of what I do. Others, Only like the Narrative of a manager being under Tension, people get excited by that.

“Some people really enjoy that process for some bizarre reason and the more they try and push individuals, whether it’s me or anyone else, to that sort of position, then it generates for them whatever sort of satisfaction they get out of it. But it doesn’t infiltrate my world.

“Irrespective of what happened last night (vs AZ Alkmaar), I Yet would have gone home and asked my kids how the concert went. My life goes on. It’s not that overwhelming that I feel the need to Stop it all out or to react to it. It doesn’t bother me.

‘Google my name and get some headlines’

When asked if it is more intense because of where he comes from, Postecoglou said: “If I say that, then people will Only Gentle of see me Competing the victim card and I don’t want to do that. But 100 per cent there’s an element of that. There’s no doubt about it.

“Let me give you an example. Whatever profession you’re in, you’re a journalist, you’re a plumber, you’re a policeman, you’re a lawyer, you’re a doctor, you’ve been doing that Position for 26, 27 years.

“Irrespective of whatever you do, do you reckon that person’s Obtained a pretty Excellent idea about that Position? Would you ever question his knowledge on that Position? Would you ever question whether every decision he makes he’s thought about or experienced before?

“If you survive for 26, 27 years, it means you haven’t stuffed up too many times. Whatever you do, because if you’re a plumber, then everywhere you’ve gone, if there’s leaks, then you’re not going to get another Position. If you’re a doctor and people are dying, then you’re unlikely to Strike on.

“If you’re doing it for 26, 27 years, he’s Obtained a Honest idea about what he’s doing. But then you might say Perhaps he’s Only a grinder?

“But then if that person Began pretty much on the factory floor of that industry, whatever industry it was, Perhaps you’re a CEO or whatever, and he ends up in the position where the top one per cent of his profession get to, then you’ve Obtained to say, OK, this guy must have something. You don’t get to that from the factory floor, from the basement to the top one per cent in your Pitch.

“I’m talking about the level, I’m not talking about expertise. But then you might say, OK, but he’s out of his depth now. But if you’ve taken a club that finished eighth to fifth in your Primary Packed year…so when you put all that together and then you hear, like I said, he’s out of his depth, he doesn’t know what he’s doing, he’s Obtained no idea, his methods don’t work, his philosophy doesn’t work. In any other industry, you wouldn’t do that.

“You might be critical of his performance, but you wouldn’t do that. Google my name and get some headlines. Only plaster them on a wall. And you’d say, I don’t think that fits somehow. But it does. Because that’s Gentle of where we’re at.

“There’s critical analysis of performance at every level. And like I said, as you get higher, there are bigger things at stake, for sure.

“Forget the football manager, forget me. Only any other, would you say he’s Obtained no idea what he’s doing. He’s Obtained no plan B. He’s stubborn, his methods don’t work. He’s out of his depth.

“Where does that come from? From people that probably…some weren’t even born when I Primary Began managing. I Began in 1996-97.

‘A manager’s greatest nemesis is Mr Hindsight’

“You’ve Obtained to Only accept that it’s part of the world I’m in. But I accept it. I don’t have to react to it. I can Only laugh it off because I Only think it’s ridiculous.

“And it doesn’t Transformation me as a person, It doesn’t Transformation anything I do or what I believe or how I continue to go on. Because my Profession will go on. Everyone realises that, whatever happens, my Profession will go on. That’s a long answer, isn’t it?”

Do you Yet enjoy it even during this time?

“I love it. No, I’m not saying that sort of facetiously. I love the fact that, you know, there’s a massive Event there and people are doubting you and all that sort of stuff.

“I do love it. But I also think that some of it is Only ridiculous beyond its nature of being anything other than Only Affordable and very shallow. I’m not talking about critical analysis. I’m not talking about, you know…oh, jeez, I’m going on now…

“I’ve Obtained one more Narrative and then I’ll let you go. You know who the greatest nemesis for any manager is? In today’s world, and he’s only come to the surface probably in the last five, six years, Perhaps 10 years. Mr Hindsight.

“You know who Mr Hindsight is? He’s the guy who, when the outcome’s there, the result’s already done, he’s Obtained all the answers with the greatest of certainty that was so obvious, and he’s never wrong.

“And Mr Hindsight will go out there every time and profess to be the oracle of all oracles because he Only deals with what’s happened after the event, never before. And there is such a mass of Mr Hindsight. The Killers should do a song about him. I’d definitely buy it.

“You want to be critical or you want to have really Sturdy sort of opinions about things? State them before the event. Make them really clear and stand by them when they’re wrong because I guarantee you they’ll be Only as wrong as any manager who’s wrong probably more often.

“But there aren’t many of those. There are some who if they don’t do it before the event, after the event will always put a perspective on their analysis. But I see them, mate, and I hear them after the event. ‘Oh, so obvious. Oh, how did he get that Club Picking wrong?’

“It’s Effortless to deal with an outcome. Anyone can deal with an outcome. You don’t need to even understand football. That Club won, that Club lost, that Club’s better, that Mentor is better, those players are better, that system’s better, those selections are better, those decisions are better, they were always going to be better – I could have told you that before the game. You never did. Everything’s obvious so what’s the Points?

“If it’s Only results what’s the Points of having anything else? All we’ll do is whoever won, you put a column there and say everyone writes the same piece for that and whoever lost, you put a column there, everyone writes the same piece there. These managers are under Tension, these managers are the best. And then flip it the Subsequent week because results always go the other way.

“But anyway, we should have had this offline, I’ve said too many things that I’m going to regret tomorrow.”