'It's a bullying mechanism!' - Postecoglou at war with mobile phones - video Dailymotion

Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou slammed phones as more dangerous than any weapon for young people

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00:00For young people, this is more dangerous than any other weapon in the world as far as I'm

00:04concerned.

00:05And so if I don't pull up, especially young kids who put up a phone in my face, then what's

00:09stopping them from doing that in the schoolyard?

00:11What's stopping them doing that in general life and bullying people?

00:13Because it's a bullying mechanism, it's not criticism.

00:16Like I said, if you think that after 20, almost 30 years in the game that I've received abuse

00:22from over the... from the first day of my course, I don't react to that.

00:26But if somebody's holding up a phone, I will react to it because I don't, I won't accept

00:29it.

00:30It might have been a form game you're talking about where that happened.

00:32There was two young boys that were doing it and I asked them, I don't know if it's shown

00:35in the clip, but I asked them, where's your dad?

00:36I wanted to talk to their dad.

00:38Or where's your mum?

00:39And they got slightly sheepish and embarrassed because it's not criticism I'm reacting to,

00:46it's them holding up a phone.

00:47Why are you holding up a phone?

00:49What are you trying to do?

00:50So you can put it on social media and say, look, I've got angiopostecoglu to react.

00:54Isn't that great?

00:55So now I can take it, I'm 60 years old, I don't care.

00:58What if they do that in the schoolyard?

00:59What if they do that in general life?

01:00What if they do that to you, Tom?

01:02Somebody's walking around and not criticising you because you'll say, yeah, mate, I'm a

01:06big boy to handle.

01:07Better put a phone in your face to do it.

01:09As soon as I see a phone, mate, I'm going to react.