KIDDERMINSTER Harriers boss Phil Brown has incredibly accused his ‘imposter’ players of trying to ‘get him out’ of the club.
Harriers’ National League play-off hopes took another blow on Saturday when they lost 3-1 to Spennymoor at Aggborough.
Brown then gave an astonishing interview to the club’s official YouTube channel in which he said his team played with ‘no pride’.
He also said he would be bringing them in like ‘naughty schoolboys’ as there was ‘something going on’ in the dressing room.
Brown added the players were ‘making his life a misery’ and wanted to find out if they wanted him at the club.
The Harriers boss blasted: “It was the overall understanding of the team, what was required to win again football.
“There’s a certain way of playing football, and there’s a certain way of wearing the shirt. The players out there wore it with no pride whatsoever, no ambition to try and win the game.
“They looked like they were going through the motions, and that’s a representation of me.
“So it’s not a case of the changes I made that did that. These players I’ve been playing for me all season, and I’ve never seen anything like that.
“It was unrecognisable. There’s something going on in the changing room. I don’t know what it is.
“It was almost like they didn’t want me at the football club. They played that way. That’s the only way I can describe the performance – to get me out.
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“I’d love for one of them to step up here in front of the camera and just say those words.
“I’m wasting my time trying to motivate them if they want me out of the club, and that’s the way they represented me here.
“They’ve made my life a misery, and consequently, because of that, I might as well make their life a misery, they’ll be in on Sunday, like naughty schoolboys that need educating.
“I’ll stay at the helm as long as the chairman wants me because it’s the chairman that employs me. But the way the players represented us was just really not good enough for themselves, not good enough not just for the football club.
“It’s almost like they were imposters. And if that’s the case, then go and do another job, something else. I try to educate them. I try to give them everything with regards to the professional side of the game, as I know nearly 2,000 games as a player, coach and a manager.
“I’ve been sacked before – but I’ve never seen such a weird, lacklustre, no direction, kind of representation of Phil Brown, and I’m really I want to apologise to everybody that came to the game.
“It’s not acceptable to play football in that manner. I’ll level this to all the players when they come in. It was embarrassing.”
Harriers have now dropped out of the play-off places and host King’s Lynn at Aggborough on Tuesday.
Spennymoor went two up before Ashley Hemmings pulled one back with 10 minutes left.
But the Durham side then added a third with Glen Taylor’s second goal of the game.
Brown said: “If it goes on like this for the rest of the season, the place will be empty, I wouldn’t pay to watch that.”
