Angry Gills boss launches into extraordinary rant

STEVE EVANS ramped up the war of words with Danny Cowley as he blasted Pompey’s ‘World Cup’ celebrations in an explosive rant.

And Evans is adamant his Gillingham side deserved victory after going down to a 1-0 stoppage-time loss on Saturday – and believes that would be acknowledged by the Blues’ faithful.

There’s no love lost between the two bosses and that intensified after Cowley’s side grabbed the only goal right at the death.

The Pompey head coach was booked for his celebrations, after 90 minutes of histrionics from

Evans and his assistant Paul Raynor on the touchline.

The two benches refused to shake hands after the game, with Raynor retorting with expletives when assistant Nicky Cowley approached him.

Evans told Kent Online: ‘The celebrations on the bench resembled World Cup stuff, a bit disrespectful really.

‘It doesn’t matter when you win, you should never be disrespectful, but we will take the pain and we will go again.

‘I said pre-match that Portsmouth had got their Christmas with the lack of options we have had andtheyhavegottheir Christmas early getting three points.

‘Itisahardonetotake because of the manner of it.

‘A lot of people were talking and no more than Cowley himself that they felt if they got an early goal what they could do with us. Yeah, man on the moon.

‘They deserved to get beat. We will listen to the nonsense from him and the superstars, their nonsense, but if they are honest, which they never are, they will say they deserved to get beat.

‘Second half I felt they had run out of ideas. For all of the big players and moans about who they didn’t have, they had one player missing, Sean Raggett, and he is no world star is he?

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One and a local boy to Gillingham but they have made it out as if it is a defensive crisis.

‘Shaun Williams is a player I tried to bring in when Portsmouth offered treble his money, back when he came out of Millwall.

‘Connor (Ogilvie) played many times for me at centreback. I moved him there for a long period of time.

‘Poor Danny, with that big, big budget and big support, and fantastic facilities, but good luck to him.’