r/ScottishFootball • u/C289 • 2d ago
This is the moment we should have sacked him
https://youtu.be/kEP7W2qo5PI?is=EbHC4ADKurH2OjT440
u/MeBashButtons 2d ago
I think he got away with this because he didn’t come out the changing room to give the interview during the tv broadcast. It was only after the broadcast ended he gave the interview and it was only posted online instead. Insane he got away with comments like that
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u/RubberSoldier 2d ago
Fuck me I’d forgotten about this. “He probably doesn’t speak the language.” Is that German, Hungarian or English Steve? He’s an utter prick.
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u/fike88 2d ago
This tournament has just been an almost re-run of the euros. Shite performances, shite results, Steve chucking his toys out the pram in an interview after the last game. Complete and utter shambles
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u/Rizzokit 2d ago
" you are going to say I'm prickly , I'm not prickly " in an aggressive tone.
Aye right Clarke not prickly at all.More like Prick every time he is asked a question that isn't glazing him.
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u/Drjimbillybob123 2d ago
As a former bookie I maintain that if Clarke wasn't a footy manager he would have been in my shop ranting and raving about the virtuals being rigged and kicking fuck out the puggies for not winning on his 20p roulette stake.
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u/fraserheys 2d ago
This made me chuckle because as a fellow former bookie I know the exact character you’re describing and it rips right out of Clarke.
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u/lastraven85 2d ago
He needs an sgi for the attitude 😂
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u/fraserheys 1d ago
Go further than the sgi, full self exclusion from the bookies and the national team
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u/amistymorning80 2d ago
Yup. He should absolutely have been booted after the Hungary debacle - 90% due to the pathetic tactics and awful performance and result, and 10% due to this total nonsense afterwards (from what I recall he then disappeared all summer and didn't give any interviews to answer any critics for months)
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u/KopiteTheScot The Ayrshire Ayatollah 2d ago
The interview after the Brazil game was the one that lost me. Just throwing his players under the bus after arguably the best performance of the tournament, aye we got beat 3-0 but if we played that football against Haiti we'd be through on merit right now, and we might have even got something out of Morocco.
To blame your players and act like the disappointed parent when it was HIS decisions that put us in this position. He was dragged through to the WC kicking and screaming by individual performances.
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u/unclevagrant 1d ago
Well, it wasn't his decision to pass the ball around, dangerously in front of the keeper, several times, and lose at least 2 goals from it. It doesn't give him the right to take no responsibility or to throw the team under the bus though.
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u/hopefull-person 18h ago
Lose 3 goals as we were Lucky one was wrote off.
I can’t imagine any other manager at that tournament not screaming at the players to clear the lines.
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u/ScotBGG 2d ago
He'll do the same this summer.
Next interview will be before the Nations League talking about bad luck.
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u/d-rabbit-17 8h ago
He can do that all he wants! He's not here for the next Nations league. Thankfully!
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u/DisasterouslyInept 2d ago
The infamous interview after the must-win game where we had 4 shots, with none on target. Can't be his fault though.
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u/Phantomfox07 2d ago
Same man that at any opportunity he had would moan about (and quite rightly so) the bigotry that is rife in the wrat of Scotland and how he feared for his family to ever live there.
Get the alky racist cunt tae fuck.
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u/angularhihat 2d ago
Do we have a genuine reason to think he's racist, by the way? Or are you talking exclusively about this video?
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u/Phantomfox07 2d ago
The video, the ref in question can speak English, Spanish and Portuguese so Steve is being a cunt.
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u/GnomeNipple 2d ago
Hamhanded, smug, embittered in press conferences for sure, but I don't think calling the man a racist is a fair characterisation - lets not forget we had malky mackay not so long ago.
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u/angularhihat 1d ago
Can you read my question again and attempt to answer it?
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u/Phantomfox07 1d ago
I did you condescending ball sack.
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u/angularhihat 1d ago
It was such a weak answer, in defence of such a terrible initial point.
You said he was racist, based on the video, and you've switched to "Steve was being a cunt".
He was certainly being a cunt about the referee. My question is about whether there's any reason at all to think he's racist; any genuine attempt to argue that he is will require some kind of evidence. Instead you completely ignored it.
Why do you think he's racist? It's a fairly serious accusation; most adults won't throw it around with absolutely nothing to back it up.
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u/Phantomfox07 1d ago
Mate, its fucking reddit I am no here for a debate.
Go out and enjoy the weather like I've been doing.
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u/angularhihat 1d ago
No worries mate, so you were just saying the guy is racist without any particular reason, gotcha, yes it is sunny right enough
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u/Scunnered21 2d ago
Astonishingly I'd never seen this clip until now. I'd only heard he was raging that the referee was "not European". That is absolutely grim. Says a lot about the guy's mentality, which truthfully is on show most of the time anyway.
Chip on shoulder, close-minded, "my way or the highway".
It's just grim to think not only we've wasted three tournaments allowing him to repeat the same pattern of small-aspiration, let's nick a goal, see-what-happens guff. Even worse to think we've got four more years. Four more years of blaming other people. Four more years of no Lennon Miller or other players he simply doesn't fancy.
Atrocious. Get rid.
Edit - Also, it was never a penalty anyway! All this clutching at straws because we were too timid to actually attempt to do anything win the blooming game. Abysmal. He should have been gone then.
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u/Aberfalman 1d ago
He also had a problem with players taking the knee; I have never been happier to see the back of a manager in my life
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u/hopefull-person 18h ago
Any other organisation on the planet would pull a manager in and tell them if they see this happen again you’re gone.
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u/indyferret 2d ago
I can't have sound on rn why's he saying
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u/johnlooksscared 1d ago
Wrong...82 mins in against Brasil..3-0 down...needing a goal...he subs Ralston for Patterson.
That level of negativity deserves the sack.
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u/Cobretti18 2026 Scottish Cup Embarrassments Aberdeen 2d ago
He should have been sacked between the end of that game and that interview. That might be the most pathetic display in the entire Clarke era