article_snippet.sent: Miliband poor leadership has been mocked by a Labour candidate, who said it was like having 'a manager of a football team that you don't rate, but you still support a football team that you don't rate'.
article_snippet.sent: Miliband has faced repeated criticism and off-the-record briefing about Miliband leadership among Labour ranks, but most have seen the sense of keeping quiet about their misgivings during the election campaign.
article_snippet.sent: The 52-year-old lawyer said: 'If I can go off-piste a little, as somebody who has a very realistic idea of what the maths will be in this constituency, maybe what I say isn't going to find it's way back to Miliband and Miliband friends.'
article_snippet.sent: Miliband added: 'Now one of the things which has brought me to politics at this very late stage you might think is the wish to make a difference.
article_snippet.sent: Now I am a Labour man and I will stand by my party, thick and thin. '
article_snippet.sent: It's a bit like having a manager of a football team that you don't rate, but you still support a football team that you don't rate, sometimes. '
article_snippet.sent: To laughter from the audience, he was mocked by one of he fellow candidates for he 'glowing endorsement' for Labour's leader.
article_snippet.sent: Miliband made the admission during a visit to Stockton-on-Tees, where Miliband was asked by a young boy in the audience, Nelson Driscoll, what Miliband wanted to be when Miliband was seven years old.