After 3 open top bus parades, a few Mcdonalds in Piazza del Duomo Beddows has finally found some time to talk to the press about life in Milan particularly focusing on three things
Clough
Italian Team Awards
World Cup
On Clough:
In his pre-World Cup press conference the elite Italian manager, Stephen Beddows, has admitted that he has some sympathy with fellow Milan based manager Mr Clough.
"Mr Clough has been victimised due to his past misdemeanours, everyone knows his criminal record is longer than Adam Johnson's, Joey Barton's and Ched Evan's put together, therefore you'd expect everyone to be suspicious and check on his squad size every time they see an Inter transfer go through, but I do have genuine sympathy for him."
Beddows continued to compare Clough's former club of Sunderland as the bigger side and that Inter's relegation went to prove that Clough was only good enough for BIG clubs and that he fully expects Clough to either succeed his brother Roy at Real Madrid in Season 4 or join Roy's back room staff.
It is highly unfortunate as well that Mr Clough and Inter are now banned from the Youth Cup in Season 3 therefore ensuring that the two Milan sides cannot be drawn against one another in next Monday's draw.
On The Awards:
Milan were belated awarded the prestigious award of "Most Entertaining Team" at last nights glitzy award ceremony for Italian football clubs. Beddows dismissed the fact that some of the other Italian teams refused to turn up as coincidence and denied that they only won the award due to the only other present managers being Brian Clough himself, Doug Earle (Obviously) and Marco De Angelis who presented the award to Beddows.
Milan's credentials in this field were head and shoulders above the rest, "Scoring 52 goals, 7th highest scorer in the league and still getting relegated, that was pure entertainment. We play football to please ourselves and to please our fans..."
Beddows didn't comment on the number of goals conceded but made mention of the growing anti-Milan feeling within the game world and announced that his side feared no one: especially the likes of Gordon, a man so out of touch that he makes the Queen look young or Broon, a Scotsman who has spent 6 months in Turkey now and still can't speak a single bloody word apart from ordering a drink...
He also bemoaned and criticised Frank for organising the Milan fixtures to follow on from Juventus in Season 2. If Juventus played them on the Thursday, we played them on the Sunday, which would be enough to motivate any side...if you face the dull boring football of Juventus where you do nothing as he keeps the ball for 90 minutes passing sideways and backwards you will always be fresh for the next match! Horrendous planning by the fixture compilers, a sentiment echoed by Top impartial Italian journalist Gino Kinnearo.
Marco was proud as punch to award Mario Balotelli the "AC Milan Player of the Year Award" whilst the "Young Player of the Year" went to recently called up Italian star, Marco Benassi.
Beddows laughed out loud when it came to the "other" awards of the evening which were awarded as follows.
"Most Boring Side to Watch" Juventus and DP
"Dirtiest Side" Fiorentina and Mister Malcolm
"Funniest Fall from Grace" Inter and Clough
"Greatest Achievement" Udinese and Attila
Beddows post awards had this to say in particular on Malcom... "Malcolm pretty boy dinosaur, about as charming as a feather duster, and a management who imparts tactics that belong more at the Battle of the Somme than in SM... 13 red cards and 56 yellow cards in 38 league games, two players having 3 red cards a piece. He plays to injure players not win football matches. Don't be fooled by his mock-up Italian awards... disgraceful."
On The World Cup:
Beddows has been criticised in some quarters for failing to pick certain people for his World Cup squad but as even the animated Englishman in his best Italian justified his decisions.
Donnarumma's omission: "I had provisionally picked Donnarumma to come to the World Cup but when I learnt that Roy Keane had changed his D1POTY selection from Balotelli to Ramos I immediately sent him home, kicked out of the training camp here at Lake Como."
Fiorentina Ban: "I will not have players of Mister Malcolm's anywhere near my squad, for him to have the audacity to call Milan cheats when you see Fiorentina's disciplinary record is more of a disgrace than when they found Ryan Giggs guilty of cheating on his missus..." Beddows also confirmed that whilst Malcolm remains in charge in Florence no Viola players would get near an Italian shirt unless they left the club.
Balotelli Captaincy: "On the pitch he wont wear the armband but I have made it clear to everyone that Mario will lift the World Cup when we win it. He is our Club Captain and leader on the pitch without the armband."
Paloschi Inclusion: "Ryan asked me if I would be including any Celta Vigo players and I said yes why not... and we have also brought Ryan along for the ride, he will be my assistant as I attempt to impose my superior knowledge on him to help Celta come back to Div 4"
Claims of Money for Genoa Players Inclusion: "Presently there are 4 Genoa players in the squad but we may amend that in favour of more Milan youngsters. Of course it is completely preposterous to think Frank demanded their inclusion... as if he would!"
Darmian Inclusion: "Everyone knows myself and David have not always seen eye to eye recently and his criticism of my circumstances has been nothing short of harsh. I have called Darmian up but will not hesitate to withdraw him from the side should David continue along this anti-Milan path that he has begun to tread.
Beddows then finished his chat with the media and said that anything less than semi-final for Italy would be considered failure.
Hahah
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