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13th August 2015
12:05pm BST
"From Jose Mourinho's bizarre attack on his own staff to Roberto Martinez's excruciating appearance as Jamie Carragher's guest on Sky, I saw a new level of stupidity when all I wanted to see was a decent game."He revealed his befuddlement trying to figure out Martinez's reasoning for taking part in the interview. However, he was very complimentary of Carragher's role in the segment.
Giles then took aim at Brendan Rodgers for his apparent sugar-coating of his side's performance against Stoke City. Liverpool took home three points with the 1-0 win, but Giles hinted that Rodgers may have been attempting to pull the wool over everyone's eyes."All Martinez managed to do was to show himself up. He barely answered a question and how could he? If he was honest about his own players' faults, it would be a crazy thing to do so why bother? What did he gain?""A lot of people will tell me that this is the 'modern game' and that I'm just an old pro hankering after days gone by but common sense is still common sense unless the world has really gone mad.""It made zero sense for Martinez to expose himself to Carragher, an honest ex-pro who is very good on defence and was trying to do his job."
"According to Rodgers, his team played well and deserved to win. By any reasonable view, they didn't play well and they didn't deserve to win."
"They try to tell us black is white and it is an insult to our intelligence. Every time they do it, they are cheapening the game."He then turned his attention to the Manchester clubs and Arsenal. Giles praising Manuel Pellegrinni for having the best prepared team of the opening day, while suggesting that not much has changed at his old club Manchester United or Arsenal from last season.
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