I'll have to disagree with you here mate. Before every derby we play against the scum he hits all the right notes for me in his pre-match blurb, he has never dismissed what it means for the fans, quite the opposite in fact. To the point that I can't ever recall a manager previous that gets it as much as him. I recall people saying the same on here.
He is also trying to defuse the media heaping the pressure on, for a final game show down. He has done post match intervies for all the media outlets today, the have all said the same thing about us finishing above them and how great that is blah, blah. He doesn't want to talk about the scum, he wants to talk about us. I'm more than OK with that. In fact can you emagine him coming out saying Woolwich is all I think about, he came out and said he doesn't care about them, I like that. Nothing changes how we feel about it though, why would it? It's been in us since kids.