Nigeria coach Samson Siasia says his team deserve all the insults thrown their way by fans after failing to qualify for next year’s African Nations Cup.

The Super Eagles gave up a late goal to draw 2-2 with Guinea and miss out on qualification, with fan abuse trailing them since.

Siasia says the team deserve it

”We deserve all the insults we are getting. In the end, we failed to qualify and that hurt the fans, so they have a right to be angry,” Siasia said.

”We are also hurt, because

crowd would have brought out the best in the Eagles since failure attracted dire consequences.

He said,”Whoever took the Boys to Abuja must be remorseful now.Lagos is the ideal place to achieve results.The fans may be fastidious,that brings out the best in the Eagles.Ask Jay Jay Okocha and Victor Ikpeba,both members of the NFF Technical Committee.

After playing goalless with Congo in the 2000 Nations Cup,Lagos fans almost lynched them.In the next match against Senegal,they were condemned to win,even under tough circumstances.It was the Tunisian referee that eventually denied them the Cup.”

The former governor further stated that a jeering crowd and loud boos from the stands are part of football and should not put any good team in a deep blue funk.

“You know, just as the Eagles wear green, the fans also go green with envy when their expectations are not met.NFF moved the team to     Abuja simply because they were booed agaist Sierra-Leone,yet they won 2-1.Lagos is it.

Eko for show.No nonsense.Afterall, the Ivoriens play in Abidjan not Yamoussokro their capital,In America, Washington D.C. is not home ground while Bafana Bafana do not play in the capital city of South Africa,”he added.

On Samson Siasia, Kalu called on compatriots to take it easy with the apologetic coach,stressing that failure could be his backdoor to success.

“Experience is the best of schoolmasters,only the fees are heavy.Siasia failed us ,we have every right to crucify him because never in our history did the fans appoint a manager.They backed him in the past, let them flog him.At the end ,he has learnt his lessons.Do not forget that the same Clemens Westerhof we eulogise today,started as a failure who could not take us to the Italia ’90 World Cup.

Let Siasia remain and return the team to Lagos where there is a lot to gain from sports loving Governor Babatunde Fashola,”Kalu said.