‘They Don’t Have Male Genitalia!’ – Carlisle Boss Keith Curle Goes Off On Bizarre Rant About ‘Weak’ Players

Chris Wright

7th, April 2015

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By Chris Wright

“You got a winkie or what mate?”

Carlisle went down 3-1 against Accrington Stanley on Monday afternoon, a result which leaves the Cumbrians perched just three perilous points above the League Two drop-zone with a mere handful of games left to play and with just one win in their last 11 outings.

Unsurprisingly, manager Keith Curle was not best pleased with his side’s meek showing, with his anger eventually manifesting in a barely-comprehensible rant about his players’ genitalia (or the lack thereof) after the game.

Curle told BBC Radio Cumbria:

“We’ve got to play people with the male genitalia to go out and play, but I don’t think I can do that as I’d only start with five or six players because I don’t think there are players there that have got the male genitalia.

“Those players need to know that basically they’re soft. The strength of character in that changing room is alarming weak.

“You’ve got to be accountable for yourself and have pride, there are players who can’t say they care because they put in a performance that shows they don’t.

“They are players who don’t deserve to be professionals. They are weak.

“I’ve had to tell players individually what I thought of their performances, and yes it did get personal.”

The spewing went on:

“There’s no spirit in that changing room – they’ve got no male genitalia. They are weak, and we need a reaction.”

“They need a poke, and I’ve given them a poking. The goals we’ve conceded are not even at Sunday League level.

“I might get 50 supporters to come down, have an open forum and they can have half an hour with the players.

“They can tell them exactly what they think of them, and they’ll have to take it.

“Supporters can see when people aren’t giving everything for the shirt.”

O…kay.

In these supposedly enlightened times, there may well be repercussions if the relevant authorities construe Curle’s diatribe as sexist – which it kinda is, really.

Of course, Curle isn’t exactly renowned as being one of the Football League’s most subtle, lovey-dovey man-management specialists, once delivering a brutally brusk, assessment of two Carlisle players who were returning from long-term injuries by simply telling them he wanted them to leave the club immediately.

As always, there’s no-nonsense and then there’s Keith Curle.

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3 Comments

  1. Murray says:

    Something something John Sitton FACKING DINNER something.

  2. Jarren says:

    To me he’s simply saying that they have no balls. Nothing really that sexist in it.

    I’m sure some female managers of women’s teams have told their players to “grow a pair” (figuratively speaking) at half time, for example.

  3. Anonymous says:

    Bit hypocritical when he hasn’t even got the bollocks to say they haven’t got the bollocks

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