Tony Mowbray amuses once again as he starts talking about food during what was his first press conference as Birmingham City manager.
There seems to be something about Tony Mowbray and his love of food, as he brought it up again when it captured his attention at the back of the room when talking to the media earlier this week.
This time it wasn’t about his love of revels or Yorkie bars but instead just the type of stuff the club put out for those at the press conference.
He said in his presser: “Until you get in and you feel the inner workings of any football club, you don’t know things like, I’m looking behind you now.
“Look at the buffet they put on for youse. It’s unbelievable, isn’t it? The food at this club is unbelievable.
“I mean, it’s amazing. I mean, I thought my previous club did amazing things in the kitchen, but wow, this is A1.
“You’re all very lucky. This is a one, top Premier League, Champions League food. I suggest to you, and you’re very fortunate it only lasted.”
Blues’ food. On the rise again. https://t.co/wVYzG4NY5o pic.twitter.com/6fzTZ3C19Z
— Ed Higgs (@EdNeilHiggs) January 11, 2024
It comes a year after was about to begin a press conference at Sunderland, but not before he talked about revels and the Yorkie chocolate bar for 80 seconds.
He was asked: “Pick up chocolate. What’s the worst one you can get? What’s the worst?”
Mowbray replied: “I don’t think it used to be coconut when I was a kid. They used to have a coconut one. You don’t have coconut revel anymore, do they?
“I like the orange revel. Yeah, I’ll eat anything.
“Can I start now? Listen, this will be finished before the…
“I love revels. When I go to the pictures or the cinema with my wife, that’s what I’ll eat.
“So I like raisins. So when I go to the petrol station, I get chocolate revels and I keep them in my, just at the side there.
“So as I’m driving to work and stuff, I’m eating even at 08:00 in the morning, 07:00 in the morning, I’m eating chocolate raisins.
“What I don’t understand is why they changed them. I’m pleased to get rid of the coconut.
“We’re going to get rid of them, I won’t eat them all, I promise.
“I wasn’t sure what that was happening today, because I brought myself one of these. You see it back. Sorry. Hi, good to see you’ve got your coat, we’r trying to sort the heating.”
Literally, protect him at all costs. What a guy. A man and his love for chocolate. Things we love to see.
Sit back and listen to Tony Mowbray talk about revels for 80 seconds 🍫
pic.twitter.com/yQ7KJ8rq8u— The72 – We Love the #EFL (@_The72) December 8, 2022
Back to the Birmingham press conference, and Tony Mowbray expressed excitement ahead of his first outing as Blues boss at St. Andrew’s when they host Swansea City on Saturday.
Speaking at the Birmingham City Elite Performance and Innovation Centre, Mowbray spoke about his desire to develop the team and targeted a run of positive results.
“I’m really looking forward to [the first game]. The players have had an amazing enthusiasm on the training ground. We want to play attractive football, and we will get there, but we will first play a game that suits the players that we’ve got.
“We are in a precarious position but this league is really, really tight. I have said to the players that if we can find a way to win three or four on the bounce we can shoot up the table.
“Swansea have a new coach themselves, I know Luke Williams well. He’s certainly in the mould that Swansea historically like to play, very open and possession-based.
“It is important we work with the group, coach each individual about how we want to play. It may take some time to see the finished article, but at the moment the players are really listening ahead of the Swansea game.
“I want the fans to see a team who are working as hard as they possibly can on Saturday, a team they can be proud of. Hopefully, we can put some smiles on faces at St. Andrew’s and come away with the three points.”
This is what fans said as Tony Mowbray amuses as he starts talking about food during his first Birmingham press conference…
@Northernheat123: He got Revels at Sunderland he must must be getting Thorntons at brum.
@thegmugroup: Love this guy already 💙
@Blooz_Jay: Champions League food you’ll never sing that
@vivacb2: Take a plate and put it next to the Barcelona ash tray
@JohnR200: What a guy, fantastic man, he’ll do for me. Never ever would Rooney have been like this.
@PDiddyroo: That’s Tony Mowbray for you, love him.
@niallgriffiths: Champions of the buffet, you’ll never sing that
@delves1: What a man! @FootyScran #KRO #BCFC
@d3anr: What a loveable chap #BCFC
@benwilsonn29: Watched the whole 26 minutes press conference. What a bloke
@mrlee19992: I attended a course at the blues pre-takeover and let me tell you something. The food back then was amazing, like amazing. Everyone on the course couldn’t stop talking about it #bcfc
@LeeW1875: Love this… he says things like a fan would!! If he loves a buffet he’ll definitely do for me!! 🤣
@jameswilkes00: The best food in the championship you’ll never sing that
@BigDoggy2000: It’s literally a bowl of revels on a table at the back
@MarfsBack: Nah honestly how can you not like this bloke
@9_Hendo: I love this bloke already… I so hope it works. Mad what a bit of humour, light heartedness can do…
@mynameismrjrb: Best buffet in the EFL, you’ll never sing that 🎶
@BradleyDSharp11: Can we just go back 5 weeks, pretend we didn’t sack him and just carry on with him in charge. I miss Mogga. 🙁
@chris_skudder: 😂 Close your eyes, it could almost be Cloughie.
@AliMaxwell_: If you had to be handcuffed to an EFL manager for 48 hours, who would you choose? I reckon I could listen to Uncle Tony Mowbray talk about anything for an unlimited amount of time… not to mention he’d have plenty of pocket chocolate.
@Raw0909: “Come for the buffet, you’ve only come for the buffet.”
@WhatTheFalkPod: Think I miss Tony Mowbray 😔
@1875KC:
You are my Mowbray,
My only Mowbray,
He said we’re champions,
Of the buffet,
He loves his revels,
Our foods top level,
So please don’t take our Mowbray away, LA LA LA LA LA BLUES BLUES
@1973mackem: Looks like @BCFC have keep the after eights out post Xmas for Uncle Tony
@1875Cam: Blues just do it right.
@davidbrfc: Loves his Grub and a 🍺 🔵⚪️🌹
@ArgyleMemes: What a bloke Mowbray is. 😂
@Greekbluenose: Up the Uncle Tony !
@MattHerlihy: Our food is MASSIVE
@tenchylad: I miss Tony.
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