Football: Bay Utd coach vents spleen off TV cameras

Brett Angell.

He had an unusual aura of tranquillity about him on the sidelines but Bay United coach Brett Angell released the pressure valve in his post-match interview after the televised match in Napier yesterday.

Agreeing with Hawke's Bay Today that his team had started slow in the first 10 minutes but had got into the act later, Angell lost his composure when asked how he saw the end of this ASB Premiership campaign.

"It is the best season the Bay have had — in the highest position — so I can't see why the negative connotations," he said, adding they wanted to be in the grand final.

"Probably some people didn't want us to be in the final," he said, feeling HB Today didn't want the franchise to achieve anything.

" ... do you do that to the Magpies, slag off their f ... ing players?

"What right have you got to slag off players from your understanding of football?" he asked but admitted he had no idea what journalism was about before storming off.

Earlier, he said the Bay had got back into it with a "quality goal". They had numerous other chances but the goalkeeper did well although "maybe in other games they would have gone in".

"They didn't and we had a bit of loss of focus with the penalty which has given them a 2-1 platform," he said, believing the second half the game was "one way" but his men had switched off again.

"So we've been punished for the lack of focus rather than anything that they provided but, at the end of the day, goals win the game ... " he said, feeling Bay United had "conceded too many elementary errors" in defence.

He was adamant they didn't lack any aggression up front although striker Sam Mason-Smith was still out of sorts from the previous game and perhaps seemed to miss the rapport he had with Hamish Watson, the Wellington Phoenix signing, who upped the physicality stakes.