No he didn’t that was the domain of Rowett our previous manager who also criticised one of the fans favourites in the same sentence. He was shown the door very quickly as the fans turned on him. Stoke fans were quite gentle with Mad Nathan at first as we were mainly drawing games. Next season we were firmly anchored at the bottom of championship with no wins in first 11 games after he had spent heavily in the summer window and the fans, like you, questioned his tactical and man management ability. He was always quick to blame others for his failures but the occasional success would see him standing by the bench beating his own chest with his fists as if taking the accolade. Quite a bizarre man and now he’s turned on your fans and publicly singled out players, there’s only going to be one outcome and hopefully, for you guys, that happens soon. But he will also be a winner financially as he gets yet another payoff on his contract.