Fans brutally label PSG as 'Spursy' after their Champions League exit
‘So the S in PSG stands for Spursy’: Football fans unite to ruthlessly mock ‘bottle job coach’ Mauricio Pochettino and liken Ligue 1 giants to his trophyless Tottenham following their Champions League capitulation at the Bernabeu
- PSG have been branded as ‘Spursy’ by fans after being dumped out of Europe
- The French side were 2-0 up on aggregate and cruising into the quarter-finals
- But a sensational 17-minute hat-trick turned the tie on its head to dump PSG out
- Fans have taken to social media to mock Mauricio Pochettino and his players
Paris Saint-Germain have been ruthlessly mocked by fans after they were branded as ‘Spursy’ following their almighty Champions League collapse at the hands of Real Madrid.
It’s a tag PSG boss Mauricio Pochettino knows all too well from his five trophyless years at Tottenham and, quite embarrassingly, it’s now followed him all the way to the French capital.
The Ligue 1 giants appeared to be cruising into the Champions League quarter-finals at half-time when they held a 1-0 lead, 2-0 on aggregate, courtesy of Real Madrid target Kylian Mbappe.
PSG and Mauricio Pochettino have been branded as ‘Spursy’ by fans after their almighty collapse that saw them dumped out of the Champions League by Real Madrid
PSG were 2-0 up on aggregate at half-time but then allowed Karim Benzema to net a hat-trick
Fans on Twitter brutally mocked the French side, labelling them as ‘Spursy’ for their collapse
But a second-half implosion from the Parisians, which saw Karim Benzema net a 17-minute hat-trick, ended their expensively assembled squad’s hopes in Europe for another season.
It means PSG’s long wait to finally win their first Champions League trophy goes on but the manner of their defeat has been compared to a Spurs side that have always been accused of ‘bottling it’ at the biggest moments.
And football fans haven’t held back when it come to brutally mocking Pochettino and his men, who were heavily tipped to go far in the competition given the squad they’ve assembled.
One fan took to Twitter to mock the Ligue 1 side after the result, saying: ‘So the ‘S’ in ‘PSG’ stands for Spursy…’
The ‘Spursy’ tag was used by several other football fans after PSG were dumped out of Europe
Another responded to the tweet, saying: ‘Just look at who manages them’, pointing out Pochettino’s prior links with Tottenham.
One fan also compared PSG to the north London club, asking: ‘PSG = A rich man’s Tottenham. What’s the French for spursy?’
The Spurs theme continued, with another adding: ‘You can take the man out of Spurs but not Spurs out of the man Ladies and Gentlemen I present to you: PSG – also known as Paris Spursy Germain’.
A Manchester United fan – a club Pochettino has been linked with taking over in the summer – insisted that the result confirmed the Argentine is a ‘bottle job coach’ and should not take over from Ralf Rangnick at the end of the season.
A Manchester United fan hit out Pochettino’s tactics, who continues to be linked with the club
They said: ‘Mauricio Pochettino confirming what a bottle job coach he is … psg so spursy tonight. Real top football managers would have at HT taken off Messi /neymar to put another defensive minded player on to see the game out completely… Not OUR NEW MANAGER. Will fit right in at OT’
And it wasn’t just the fans who slammed PSG’s display at the Bernabeu.
Liverpool icons Jamie Carragher and Steve McManaman launched scathing attacks on the Parisian side after giving up their two-goal aggregate lead in a flash.
‘We expected PSG to unravel, it just wasn’t in this game because they were so far on top at half-time,’ McManaman told BT Sport.
‘PSG do what PSG have always done, when they come under pressure, they absolutely melt away.
The Ligue 1 side have been likened to Pochettino’s five trophyless seasons with Tottenham
‘There was no organisation, no leadership, yet from Real Madrid it was just an incredible, excellent, fantastic night, and another historic evening for this team in white.’
Meanwhile, Carragher said when talking about Benzema’s hat-trick: ‘This is absolutely embarrassing, 11 seconds. If Real Madrid were playing against an Under-15 team or a kids team, this shouldn’t happen.
‘This is absolutely disgraceful, it really is. Players at this level, where they’ve just got to dig in and fight.
‘They really have, obviously really difficult position where they’ve just conceded two goals but to do that straight from a kick-off is absolutely embarrassing.’
Benzema netted a sensational 17-minute hat-trick to turn the game completely on its head
Steve McManaman (left) and Jamie Carragher (right) slammed PSG’s almighty collapse
A disappointed Pochettino, who will see his future come under the microscope having failed to deliver the owners’ primary objective, believed his side ‘exposed’ themselves with lapses of concentration.
‘We didn’t manage our emotions well,’ the PSG boss said.
‘We left ourselves exposed. We leave with great pain and disappointment because we didn’t score the goals to reflect our superiority over the two games.’
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