Dundee defender backs Paul Hartley’s Pat Nevin comments

Darren O’Dea has backed his manager in criticising BBC pundit Pat Nevin’s analysis of the Dark Blues’ defending at Aberdeen.

Hartley launched his scathing attack on the former Scotland international after Nevin talked on Sunday night’s Sportscene of “awful defending” by the Dens Park men at Pittodrie.

Nevin, Hartley said, was “talking absolute rubbish”.

Recent signing O’Dea, who was in the Dundee backline on Friday night, got involved in a Twitter discussion with BBC journalist Tom English, who posted “Paul Hartley’s trousers appear to be on fire. Pat Nevin is entitled to his opinion. Boring world if we all agreed all the time.”

O’Dea wrote: “Media say you don’t need to have played football to understand it, well just because you have played doesn’t mean you understand it either.”

He added: “He (Nevin) talked nonsense. Him and (Steven) Thompson contradicted each other aswell.

“Contradicted was the right word. The analysis of the game was really poor. Very little was correct. That’s all.”