Reda Needs To Be More Mindful - Mowbray

Last updated : 26 April 2016 By CNS Staff

Coventry City manager Tony Mowbray has said that Reda Johnson needs to be more mindful after he was pictured at Sheffield Wednesday's game at the weekend.

“As his manager I’m disappointed," Mowbray said to the Coventry Telegraph.

“I have seen some pictures of him in a Sheffield Wednesday shirt with his arms up in the air in their crowd. I’m not sure why he did that and I think he needs to be more mindful.

“It’s no disrespect to our club really; he’s injured and he doesn’t have to come to watch our matches. He can go where he wants but it seemed a little bit ill-judged.

“It’s a delicate situation for us because we threatened to do so well this season and we have fallen away and disappointed our support base.

“I wasn’t there so I couldn’t feel the emotion of that moment. All their fans might have recognised him and started singing his name. But if it was a self indulgent thing you wonder what he’s doing.

“I would have to say that, generally, our fans appreciate Reda Johnson.

“Whether that changes with him wearing a Sheffield Wednesday shirt, I don’t know. Whose to say in a couple of years he’s not at a Coventry game in a Sky Blues shirt with the fans singing his name.

“In the modern world of social media I think footballers have to be more mindful. Is there any harm to it? Not really other than he’ll have upset a few of our supporters, wearing a Sheffield Wednesday shirt and at a game while the team that actually pay his salary is striving away at another ground trying to win a match.

“I won’t fall out with Reda on a personal level over it. It’s just ill-judged and he has to be more mindful that in the world we live in everything is on social media immediately.

“I’ll speak to him about it but it’s not a big issue for me. I’ve no problem with him going to their game but it’s maybe a bit naive because of the social media world we live in.

“Twenty years ago no-one would have know about it but today you have to be careful.

“I don’t think there are any actions required but he’s upset one of two Coventry fans who are passionate about their club and see a player who is being paid by this club showing his allegiance elsewhere.”

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