After Persib Bandung manager Umuh Muchtar blamed Carlton Cole on the\u00a0dismal season of the club, the\u00a0former\u00a0Chelsea striker\u00a0decided to strike back.<\/p>\n
In an interview with\u00a0SuperBall.id<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>on Sunday, Muchtar said that Persib Bandung had brought world-class football stars\u00a0Michael Essien<\/a> and Carlton Cole to\u00a0Si Jalak Harupat Stadium with the ambition of dominating Liga 1.<\/p>\n However, the West Java-based club finished the 206\/2017 season at the 13th position, with just six points above relegation zone.<\/p>\n On Twitter, Cole fought back and stated that the Persib players and supporters “deserve better”.<\/p>\n “I am to blame?\u00a0I feel sorry for Persib players but mostly the Persib fans that they have to deal with such stupidity. You deserve better,” he wrote on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After Persib Bandung manager Umuh Muchtar blamed Carlton Cole on the\u00a0dismal season of the club, the\u00a0former\u00a0Chelsea striker\u00a0decided to strike back. In an interview with\u00a0SuperBall.id\u00a0on Sunday, Muchtar said that Persib Bandung had brought world-class football stars\u00a0Michael Essien and Carlton Cole to\u00a0Si Jalak Harupat Stadium with the ambition of dominating Liga 1. However, the West Java-based club finished the 206\/2017 season at the 13th position, with just six points above relegation zone. On Twitter, Cole fought back and stated that the Persib players and supporters “deserve better”. “I am to blame?\u00a0I feel sorry for Persib players but mostly the Persib fans that they have to deal with such stupidity. You deserve better,” … Continue reading “Carlton Cole: Persib Bandung fans and players deserve better”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":2890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[584,643,428],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}