Crystal Palace co-owner Steve Parish has raved about Mauricio Pochettino on Twitter for his fulsome public apology to referee Mike Dean.
The Tottenham manager used his media conference on Tuesday to express how sorry he was for aggressively confronting Dean in the immediate aftermath of his team’s 2-1 defeat to Burnley at Turf Moor last Saturday.
Palace chairman Parish took to his personal Twitter account in the early hours of today (Wednesday) to express his “huge respect” for Pochettino and how it was “impossible” to be anything other than impressed by the nature of his apology.
Impossible to have anything other than huge respect for this https://t.co/z07ixCTiZ1
— Steve Parish (@CEO4TAG) February 27, 2019
OPINION
Pochettino has been widely praised for his apology to Dean, and rightly so. What was so impressive was the length and sincerity of the manager’s mea culpa, and how he did not just hide behind a statement written by the club’s press office or legal team. The Argentine did wrong, and is big enough and smart enough to admit it in a public arena. Credit also to Parish, who put aside what can sometimes be tedious club allegiances to praise a manager of a London rival, and one who has been strongly linked in the past with trying to sign Palace prize asset Wilfried Zaha. A marketing expert by trade, Parish, who along with three other businessmen, saved Palace from administration in 2010, is one of the few vocal Premier League club chairmen in the media. You can’t imagine Roman Abramovich, Sheikh Mansour or even Spurs’ own bashful owner Joe Lewis praising a managerial rival on Twitter.