Wednesday, 19 December 2012

Adkins under pressure?

(Original Article Date: 18th October 2012)

Southampton manager Nigel Adkins has been accused of not taking his position seriously after allegations that he has started sneaking song titles into press conferences.

Suspicions were first aroused when he elected to blame the defeat against Everton 'on the boogie', rather than the more commonly used scapegoat of the referee. The game was up for Adkins after describing Rickie Lambert as his 'wonderwall', and then claiming that he had 'good vibrations' about the forthcoming game against Aston Villa.


CHEEKY: Adkins after slipping in a song reference in his press conference

John-George McCartney, the Southampton spokesperson, said that “We feel it is simply unacceptable for the manager to behave in this manner.

“We work eight days a week to preserve the reputation of this football club. It has been a long and winding road under Nigel and we just hope he understands the history and prestige of Southampton. He may well regret this when he's sixty four.

We're disappointed and we do not know where he got the idea for this from, but on this occasion we're going to let it be.”

Meanwhile, rumours that this craze had spread to other Premiership managers gathered pace yesterday after Chris Hughton suggested that 'everybody hurts' when they're struggling at the bottom of the league.

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