Richard Money hit out at the Luton Town boo-boys after his side recovered from a late penalty decision to beat Forest Green Rovers in the last minute.
Richard Money
Tom Craddock completed his brace after the Conference strugglers were handed a lifeline with an 81st minute spot kick, and with Oxford United, York City and Kettering Town all losing it proved to be a good night for the Hatters' promotion aspirations.
Until then Town had struggled to put the game to bed after Craddock's 37th minute penalty and when Rovers levelled at 1-1 the crowd voiced their frustrations at what would have been two points dropped.
Money however was only concerned with the victory, not how it came about.
"The players are well aware the people are entitled to say what they want," he said. "When the score goes 1-1 we know that there's huge disappointment. I've said to the players that the reason why that happens is probably because fans know the Oxford and York scores are.
"Everybody is messing their pants. That's what happens at this stage of the year, get used to it. People think that the life of a footballer is easy. It's not. You've got to win in front of 6,500 people and try to entertain them. You've got a duty to do that and we are well aware of that. We haven't entertained but we've given them three points, so give the players credit for digging it out."
"It was a terrific three points.The players deserve a fantastic amount of credit for digging out a result that looked unlikely, yet again.
"This is end of season football. It's about winning matches to make sure you get to where you want to get to."
Money highlighted the state of the pitch, which has had sand introduced to make it playable, but he said it's something that players and fans will have to put up with
He said: "If anyone thinks we're going to play free-flowing football on that whatever you want to call it [pitch], then please, come to the stadium tomorrow. I will meet them and we'll walk across the pitch and they can have a look at it.
"It's impossible to play free-flowing football. You can't move it quickly enough. We have to be resolute and professional and make sure we do what we need to do to win football matches, and get this club out of the league. That's all we are concerned about.
"I can tell you now that the dressing room is not bothered by everything else that's going on and being said. We are so focussed and so single-minded it is untrue, and we will keep pushing on and trying to get as many points as we can.
"End of season football when you're challenging for honours or fighting against relegation is nervy stuff, go and ask Oxford, York and Kettering.
"We did look a bit nervous, but I think, in all honesty it was getting used to the pitch. The last time we played it was like a ploughed field. Now it's like a beach.
"I'm not criticising anybody because the groundsman has done a fantastic job to get it where it is. Hopefully, from here on in, it might get a bit better if it gets warmer. At the minute it's absolutely impossible.
"What's in my mind is that we want to try and play football and entertain, but the most important thing is to come off that pitch with three points, because that's the be all and end all at this stage of the season."
He added: "Nobody seems to give us any credit for the way we perform. Tonight, we weren't great but we came off the pitch with the right result. Saturday [against Hayes & Yeading] we played extremely well, everyone is entertained. Twenty-nine crosses, 28 attempts at goal, we win 3-2 and everyone thinks Hayes are rubbish.
"That, unfortunately is the life of the Luton Town manager and playing for Luton Town."
After the late drama against Oxford the manager praised his players for once again fighting until the end to secure three points when the chips were down.
"The players have shown in the past that they're resolute and prepared to go until the last minute," he said. "We did it against Oxford and absolutely battered Wimbledon's door down for 20 minutes trying to get the equaliser.
"That's what you've got here, a special bunch of players who will go to the 94th minute to get a result and that's what they've done, so full credit to them."
Money also revealed a surprising stat, pointing out it's something they must address to continue hunting down the league's front runners.
He said: "I'll give you a statistic that people might not have realised. There's been no clean sheet at home since September 12 2009 in the league. The players were very conscious of that and clean sheets at home are going to get us to where we want to get to between now and the end of the season."
On the penalty given away by Janos Kovacs that so nearly saw Forest Green Rovers take a point back to Gloucestershire, Money said: "I've seen them given.
"The pitch played a massive part in it and in the end he [Kovacs] has ended up falling on top of it, but he hasn't handled it deliberately. Given the referees performance tonight I'm not surprised he gave it."
Though results at the top of the Blue Square Premier went Town's way the Luton chief was keen to keep the focus on his side's achievement.
"The most important score that went in Luton's favour tonight was Luton Town 2 Forest Green 1, and that's all we're bothered about," he said.
"Obviously we need help from other people if we are going to challenge for that top spot but other than that it's in our own hands.
"We know we've got to play better than that, and we have to get used to playing on that pitch very quickly. But you cannot have anything other than admiration for the way we stuck at it and gone home with three points.
"I don't see anything but tight, nervy games between now and the end of the season. Touch wood, we seem to know how to win those games, and long may it continue."
Luton striker Steve Basham's brace for loan club Hayes & Yeading downed league leaders Oxford, much to Money's delight, who said: "Good on him. Thanks very much.
"It's amazing. We walk off the pitch on Saturday and everyone knows we should have scored five, six or any other score you want to name, and everyone thinks that Hayes are a terrible team, yet they go to Oxford and win 2-1."