PHIL Brown admitted he had ‘settled a score’ with a win against former club Kidderminster Harriers on Saturday.
Brown was sacked by Harriers at the end of last season after failing to win promotion.
The ex-Hull City manager then took a job with National League North rivals Peterborough Sports.
But it was Brown who came out on top when the two sides met at the weekend – with Peterborough coming back from a goal down to beat Kidderminster 2-1.
That was only Peterborough’s second win of the season and left Harriers boss Adam Murray looking for answers with Kidderminster now 10 points off top spot.
But after the game, Brown could not resist biting back at the club that axed him.
Asked if the score had been settled, Brown told Peterborough’s official YouTube channel after the game: “Yes, but I don’t know how long it’ll hang over my head.
“But I’ve not seen any of the hierarchy, I don’t know if they’re still here.
“It’d be nice if they showed their face because of what they did. But that’s in the past now, I’m working for Peterborough Sports.”
Murray said he felt there was a ‘fear’ among the Kidderminster squad – after Emeka Obi opened the scoring, only for Peterborough to level a minute later.
He told the Harriers’ official YouTube channel: “That’s a real low point for me. I was really disappointed in what I saw, after the two weeks we had on the training ground, the positivity and the standards.
“I’ve got a gut feeling that. for some reason, the team’s playing like we’ve got chains on us. There’s such a fear in there to make a mistake.
“People are scared to express themselves. and then when that happens, it looks like that.
“There’s a perception at this level of the size of the club and that carries weight – the players have to hold that. It’s a case of dealing with that and performing.
“When you’ve got that fear, you’ve got an anxiety, it comes across spineless, it comes across that people don’t care, it comes across that people aren’t running as hard as they do. And I know that’s not true.
“That’s a bit we’ve got to change. We’ve got to free that up. At some point, you’ve got to grab it by the scruff of the neck and I’ll take my responsibilities. It’s my team. The ownership will always fall on me, which I’m fine with. I’m comfortable with that.
“But, I think it’s going to be a really interesting moment, because we’ll see what we’re made of as a football club.
“It’s great, when everything’s going well, everybody’s smiling and everybody jumps on that. But I want to see how tough these people are now when we’re not getting our own way.”
