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.